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  • How Accurate is Oracle's "Cut Your AWS Bill in Half"​ Guarantee?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … the cloud and decided to subsidize their cloud services with their vast monopolistic support revenue instead of spending tens of billions every year on stock buybacks.
    But we knew that Oracle services are priced much higher than AWS, so lowering their prices by at least 50% across the board sounded too good to be true. We decided to do what we do best at Brightwork Research.
    Here’s the offer. You can verify it for yourself on Oracle’s website at this link.

    Reading the Fine Print from Oracle
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  • Why Oracle Cloud is Not Multi Tenant

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    … leave out is that they do not offer multitenancy, and their clouds are not tr cloud — but instead are closer to data centers in terms of how they function. However, one of the definitions of cloud is multitenancy, yet this is normally left out over the coverage of Oracle’s cloud services. This is how far Oracle is behind the major and even the minor cloud services providers. All of this is covered up with Oracle’s marketing. You will learn why Oracle’s Cloud is not truly cloud.
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  • Does Oracle's Bare Metal Outperform AWS's Bare Metal?

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    … less than AWS. However, Exadata servers are costly and are a price/performance premium over commodity servers. If Exadata were price competitive versus commodity, they would be purchased and run by AWS and GCP, and Azure, but none do. The only entity of any size that runs Exadata servers for cloud services is Oracle. 
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    Conclusion
    Oracle’s claims around their bare-metal performance and price are false. Far from being neither less expensive nor higher in performance for a similar specification, Oracle has a problem with essential uptime.
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  • The Problem with Oracle OCI's Machine Sizing

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    … any development outside of their database, as they have also added very little to their acquired applications. 
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    Conclusion
    Interactions with Oracle make it clear that Oracle offers to host and has still not created a cloud services platform like AWS and GCP. The only thing that Oracle is good at doing when it comes to cloud is making false claims about Oracle Cloud. There is no technological progress that we can see coming from Oracle.
    The clear choice is to steer clear of Oracle Cloud.

  • The Problem with Being Trapped by ERP

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    … there, or the finance portion can be kept from ERP for a while. Finance is most of what ERP systems have to offer in any case. Being stuck with ERP will increasingly hold a company back, and I see a swing back to custom solutions. This is being promoted by cloud services that make most of the ERP systems look entirely backward. Finally, the concept presented by ERP vendors is that ERP reduces integration. It does, but only really to the ERP system. However, ERP systems have integration to other systems.
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    Conclusion
    “People sometimes ask, if ERP …

  • How Useful is SAP API Management?

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    … claims made by the actual software vendor.
    By connecting Apigee/SAP API Management to the SAP Cloud, they drastically reduced the value of Apigee. Not only will SAP demand an upcharge for Apigee, but they will upcharge customers on any usage of APIs that Apigee develops as they will consume cloud services.
    The fundamental problem is that SAP does not work anything like the environment that Apigee was designed for. Apigee is intended to manage services run from cloud service providers like AWS and GCP using modern development approaches under the construct of openness.
    This is the exact opposite of …

  • How to Understand SAP's Fictional Cloud Revenues

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    … cloud/hosting. SAP’s cloud revenues growth are coming from charging cloud services by using their account control. It is quite disgusting. It is a welfare queen’s strategy. Let someone else do the work, let them produce new services, make the investments. Then put a layer on top of their stuff and pretend you are a cloud provider. This is how Oracle also operates; it is called “cloud through PowerPoint.” While these companies are the cloud in their marketing literature, they are on-premises in their software. That is SAP, and Oracle’s hybrid cloud strategy is PowerPoint …

  • Why Cloud is at a Crossroads

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    … as part of SP9.” – Diginomica
    It turns out there is a big reason why customers won’t be able to address this. And that is due to versioning. And does Diginomica happens to be funded in part by SAP? So big surprise, Diginomics repeats anything that SAP tells it to say.
    The Crossroads
    Companies now want to move to the cloud, and the question is whether the on-premises vendors with basically nothing to offer for cloud services (that is, you SAP and Oracle) can use their marketing muscle and their control over their consulting partners, IT media, and user

  • How Large Consulting Firms Exaggerate The Costs of AWS Services

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    Executive Summary

    AWS has added to its partnership stable with larger consulting companies for SAP.
    These large consulting companies have had a habit of high-cost implementations.

    Introduction
    A primary benefit of using cloud services is that the costs are transparent, and it gives more control over to the customer. However, companies like AWS and GCP do not offer the type of support common in the on-premises vendors. This has caused these providers to partner with firms to provide this consulting. However, what does this mean for costs?
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  • How SAP Plans to Markup Cloud Service Providers to High Profitability

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    … to deal with shifting from the upfront cash earned in on-premises deals to the ongoing subscription costs associated with cloud services.
    On the earnings calls, execs argued that, as cloud has more lifetime value and more predictable future revenues, the firm was going in the right direction in the long term.
    Insisting that the core business was stable anyway, CEO Bill McDermott said they should be “celebrating with champagne… that the cloud is soaring”, adding that if cloud was flat with a “rock solid core”, analysts would be “worried about the future”.
    CFO Luca Mucic said the firm …