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… which some see as the evil empire, being laid off isn’t shocking. But, “SAP is seen as the benevolent empire, so there’s a sense of betrayal in the air,” Greenbaum told CMSWire.”
Interesting observation. The bar is being set quite low. One wonders if customers, who were lied to about HANA by SAP, SAP consulting firms, IT media entities, and IT analysts who took money from SAP to write falsified studies into HANA also feel betrayed.
Maybe not.
Maybe empathy should only extend to SAP employees that helped SAP lie to customers about HANA.
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… to use them internally but to build skills. Therefore they bring up a demo environment to show customers, and they are counted as a customer of that product. We found this repeatedly in the S/4HANA space, where again, many customers of S/4HANA, particularly S/4HANA cloud, were SAP consulting firms.

Notice anything curious about the customers listed on this slide for S/4HANA? Why are so many customers SAP consulting firms? Do SAP consulting firms need an ERP system? Dickinson & Associates is not even a consulting firm; they are SAP recruiters. Recruiters require ERP systems now?
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… First, S/4HANA does not simplify anything; it is a significant change requiring significant effort. Therefore, SAP’s information is not intended to help developers as much as it is to make it sound like remediation effort will be low. Once S/4HANA is sold on these pretenses, the SAP consulting firm can change the order of the account for a major code rewrite effort.

This graphic is nonsensical. S/4HANA running on HANA does not mean there are fewer databases. HANA is not a more straightforward database than a purely row-oriented database, as we covered in the article …