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  • How Accurate Was Bluefin Solutions on C/4HANA?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … 4HANA. But visiting the Bluefin Solutions website, one can find false information on any SAP topic. The reason is that none of the information is designed to be accurate. It is intended to drive revenue and to be consistent with whatever SAP says. Yet Bluefin Solutions presents itself as a consulting firm you can trust. Bluefin Solutions creates exaggerated roles for its employees that make it appear as if they are managing enormous businesses by themselves. We analyze their coverage of SAP C/4HANA.
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  • Introduction to SAP APO PP/DS

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … plenty of manual adjustments, and the output of PP/DS heuristics can be easily beaten by the output of several other production planning applications. Companies that are paying SAP consultants to implement PPDS heuristics do not know enough to manage a production scheduling project and are being tricked by their consulting firm and SAP.
    Problem #2: PPDS as an Overall Solution
    PPDS is a problematic application. Outside of SAP consultants who seek to make money on implementing PPDS, PPDS has no successful implementation history to speak of. PPDS’s TCO is covered in the article the SAP APO PP/DS …

  • How to Replace Best Fit in SAP DP?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … fit is well known problematic piece of functionality when there is such a straightforward way of improving it.
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    It has come to our attention that Guidehouse Consulting has been using our best fit material to try to figure out the best fit for the US Navy. Guidehouse Consulting has reached out to us to provide free consulting support. If you have a consulting firm that is struggling with best fit or auto model selection, you most likely should not have them as a consulting firm as most consulting firms have no idea how to get this functionality to work

  • How to Understand Gartner and the Patent Software Vendor System

    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 …

  • The Problem with Machine Learning for Supply Chain Forecasting

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … any consideration for the outcome. The intent is to make exaggerated claims and then stall the project’s measurement of outcomes to accumulate the maximum number of billing hours. This is currently a massive problem with AI/machine learning projects.
    This video was removed from YouTube by SAP.
    Vendors and consulting firm websites are filled with false claims around AI and machine learning for forecasting. These claims make it clear that the concern in most cases is selling the project, not actually being able to deliver upon what is sold. 
    When visiting SAP accounts, none of the things described in …

  • Why Methodology Does Not Mean What You Think it Does

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … off all IT analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    How is the Word Methodology Used?
    A methodology is used to justify when a company wants to do something or when a consulting firm or vendor wants to make a good impression on a customer.
    You will often hear a consulting company say they have a particular methodology, which seems to have power over those receiving this message. SAP developed something called an ASAP methodology. The ASAP methodology had the following graphic …

  • A Summary of Some of the Pitfalls of Software Partnerships with SAP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … find published material.
    One Big Happy Family? : Vendor partners talk up the SAP vendor program to prospects and do not critique it publicly or to customers or prospects. In private, they often bitterly condemn SAP as a partner.

    How the SAP Consulting Model Works
    SAP developed the first highly integrated consulting firm partnership model in the enterprise software market. Since the beginning of enterprise software, most software vendors have implemented their software with their consulting, and SAP does the opposite. Since it became a popular software vendor in the 1980s, SAP outsourced its consulting to other firms. SAP did not …

  • How IDG Works to Provide Inaccurate IT Information

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Get a quote
    …include that quote
    …and move on.

    The idea that if you gather different quotes, then you are doing journalism is ridiculous. In the SAP space, the quotes in these articles are almost exclusively from entities with a financial bias. Either they are from SAP itself, an SAP consulting firm, ASUG, a user group controlled by SAP, Gartner, which receives massive amounts of money from SAP. None of these biases is explained to the reader, so the sources are presented as individuals and entities with information to provide. Very few alternative viewpoints are offered.
    If an entity is …

  • How Many SAP Software Products Does SAP Have?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … means that on many projects, the consultants have never implemented various products. SAP gives the impression that these immature applications are far more widely implemented than they are. When SAP puts up a slide showing the customers that use the application, the customers have, in many cases, only recently acquired the applications.
    This is why so many requests go out for SAP skills that do not exist in the market. SAP and the SAP consulting firm have given the customer the impression that the application is far more widely implemented than it is.

  • How to Understand If According to Gartner S/4HANA Good is for SMB?

    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 …