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  • How Gartner Got IBM Watson so Wrong

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … is a faux research entity that makes up its findings and has massive financial conflicts. The IT industry is generally petrified of Gartner and only publishes complementary information about them. The article below is very different.

    First, it is published by a research entity, not an unreliable software vendor or consulting firm that has no idea what research is. 
    Second, no one paid for this article to be written, and it is not pretending to inform you while being rigged to sell you software or consulting services as a vendor or consulting firm that shares their ranking in some Gartner …

  • How to Decide if You Should Buy S/4HANA?

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    The Best Approach to Decision Making on S/4HANA
    The first thing you need before making any decision on S/4HANA is objective and “non-sales” information about S/4HANA. However, as researchers in S/4HANA, we can say this isn’t easy to attain. There is an army of SAP consulting firms that will jam S/4HANA into any customer regardless of the appropriateness of S/4HANA, whether S/4HANA is ready or whether their client is ready. 
    To counter this information, we have created the most comprehensive study into the implementation history of S/4HANA.
    This study includes …

  • Is SAP Telling the Truth About S/4HANA?

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    SAP’s Truth “Extension” Around HANA
    SAP has made an enormous marketing and sales push around S/4HANA. However, SAP has resorted to quite extreme misrepresentations around S/4HANA. The problem, almost no SAP consulting firms, IT media entities, or IT analysts will call out SAP for this.
    We have performed the most extensive research into S/4HANA, and we discovered inconsistencies around S/4HANA that have never been published anywhere.
    This study includes the following:

    The background on S/4HANA implementation history.
    Evaluation of 230 S/4HANA implementation case studies classified by customer size and fit to industry. The …

  • Is It True That SAP Performs Tests Before Selling Software?

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    … their customers. This is enabled by SAP’s unethical sales teams and vast, unethical, and compliant ecosystem. This ecosystem usually repeats whatever SAP says, and denigrating all other applications and pretending that SAP has high accuracy on previous statements. However, Luca Massasso of BizBrain Technologies (and ex-SAP employee), a consulting firm focused on APO and IBP, states that this is not the case. We debate Luca and contrast our experience with his. You can decide for yourself if you think that SAP is all about providing tests that show the reality of SAP to prospects and if you consider …

  • How National Grid's SAP Implementation Damaged Their Company

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    … in-house cash module).
    This would have been a surprise as the project would have likely promised improvements in this area, as SAP has massively exaggerated what SAP ERP can do. However, this quote raises a question about how the system passed the sign-off stage. We cover the tricks consulting firms use to get companies to sign off on systems. The consulting firm covers itself by having the client sign that they agree the system is ready to go live. WiPro will use this document against National Grid in the lawsuit.
    Claim #2: The Problems With the Payroll System …

  • National Grid's Explanation of Wipro's Consultant Quality

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    … inventory management, business planning or budgeting consolidations, and accounts payable, requiring National Grid to demand stronger resources. Wipro’s lack of appropriately skilled personnel became so acute that it had to hire contractors to fill essential Project team roles.”
    Hiring contractors happens far more than is generally known because the consulting firm asks or demands that the contractor hide the fact that they are contractors. Consulting firms often pretend they had a hand in developing resources that they just plucked off the street.
    “In some instances, Wipro inexplicably reassigned crucial consultants off the Project and onto engagements for other clients …

  • What Was the Real Story with the Revlon S/4HANA Failure?

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    … IT analysts will not touch — and the reason is that nearly every entity that reports on SAP is also financially connected to SAP. And they do not declare their financial connections to SAP, appearing to be independent.

    Revlon could have stayed entirely out of this by not listening to their consulting firm.
    This software was implemented in 2017, so the project would have begun in 2016. This was when the chance of taking S/4HANA live in a production setting would have been close to zero. However, Revlon was encouraged to implement this software by both SAP and the consulting …

  • How Accurate Was Hasso Plattner About SAP HANA Publications?

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    … holders. S/4HANA has almost no real customers who live on S/4HANA. This may seem shocking. But once you move past the customers, which are SAP consulting companies that implemented the application for marketing reasons and used S/4HANA Cloud (which, in most cases, is not used by the consulting firm), validating any live S/4HANA customers becomes challenging. Virtually every S/4HANA implementation up to this point has failed.
    S/4HANA performs slower in material planning than ECC on Oracle, as we covered in the article HANA as a Mismatch for S/4HANA and ERP. Therefore 20x performance …

  • How Gartner is the Fox News or CNN of IT Analysts

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    … benefit from doing the exact opposite of whatever Gartner and Forrester recommend. One reason for this may be that Gartner and Forrester and even IDC, which is explained in the article The Problem with How Gartner Makes its Money, These faux research entities are captured by the largest vendors and consulting firms. And therefore, their conclusions are based upon these vendors’ commercial influence rather than based upon any research. Join us as we cover how this Gartner functions similarly to Fox News.
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  • Will Thomas Kurian Bring Oracle's Sales Sleaze to Google Cloud?

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    … 22 years, but it is not clear that he satisfied them. If you check Oracle’s customer satisfaction, it is the lowest in the software industry. So why does Kurian have any credibility when he makes this statement? Southwest Airlines knows how to satisfy customers. The Marriot Hotels know how to satisfy customers.
    But Oracle knows how to satisfy customers?
    The WSJ continues.
    Kurian is Bringing Oracle Support Knowledge
    “Google Cloud had prioritized developing technology over sales and support, said Gene Reznik, strategy chief at the consulting firm Accenture PLC, which helps clients deploy tech from major cloud services including