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  • What is the Actual Performance of SAP HANA?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Interpretational Bias
    The benchmarks that are released are then viewed through the prism of bias. That is people that have an incentive to prefer a particular software vendor. One entity that has published inaccurate information about benchmarks that have been right in line with their financial bias has been the consulting firm Bluefin, which is one of the least reliable providers of information on HANA.
    The Benchmark Tests
    The following benchmarks were reviewed that were performed for these databases.

    SAP OLTP Benchmark: This is a benchmark for transaction processing. Things that ERP systems tend to do the most are recording …

  • Why SAP S/4HANA Should be Free

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … 2025 and S/4 was positioned as entirely new applications that existing customers would have to pay for.
    All of this translates into the price for SAP increasing for customers. However, will your friendly neighborhood SAP consulting company explain this to their clients?
    Of course not. If you ask a friendly SAP consulting firm about whether these are, in fact, price increases, they will dance around the topic. 
    Is S/4HANA a Good Value for Existing ECC Customers Since They Should Get It For Free?
    How many companies that purchased ECC five years ago thought that after five years of

  • How to Use the Brightwork Implementation Risk Ratings

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … treated as having a roughly identical probability of success.
    Implementation Success Ratio
    Our implementation success rate is based upon a combination of the risk profile of the vendor + the risk provides the actual application.
    This enterprise risk management framework does account for the preparedness of the implementing company or the consulting firm. Most consulting companies misrepresent the knowledge of their consultants to clients. Therefore, the actual risk of implementation projects usually is greatly underestimated. A consulting initiative can adjust this with Brightwork that we describe at the bottom of this page.
    For these factors, it is necessary to engage with …

  • How to Understand How Cloud Changes the Labor Needs in IT

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Cloud’s multitenant architecture.
    IT Consulting Firm’s Interpretation of SaaS or the Cloud
    Both the big on-premises vendors and the consulting companies concluded that if SaaS and Cloud could not be blocked (which they tried to do by playing on security concerns), then the next best thing would be to co-opt the concepts of SaaS and Cloud but undermine the actual model of SaaS and Cloud. Deloitte routinely pulls $50 to $100 million out of clients for low-quality finished systems suddenly wants to be sidelined and see its revenues shrink dramatically because it “believes” in …

  • How to Best Understand Forecast Model Assignment in SAP DP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … DP.
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    Notice
    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. Companies like this one are why when have decided to remove solutions from …

  • How to Understand Best Fit Forecast Model Selection

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … 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. Companies like this one are why when have decided to remove solutions from our articles.

  • The Brightwork Research & Analysis Rating and Risk for Infor Epiphany

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … and built into the project plan. As Infor consulting is generally below average, buyers should think of staffing their Infor Epiphany implementations on the heavy side regarding client resources. This is important because it is difficult to find independent consultants who are experienced in Infor Epiphany, although it may be possible to see these resources from a boutique consulting firm that is strong in CRM and has experience in Infor Epiphany. If these two risks are mitigated, an Infor Epiphany implementation has a good likelihood of success.
    Finished With Your Analysis?
    To go back to the Software Selection Package page

  • A Debate on How to Recover SAP DP for Forecasting

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … consultant’s that work for large consulting companies are told to cover up the weaknesses of solutions in front of clients. In this way, the consultants for large consulting companies become nothing more than technically educated salespeople for the consulting firm’s vendors.
    The Effort Required to Fill the Gaps in DP
    SAP SCM DP can, with a large expense, be set up to provide many of the same forecasting methods that are available in almost any forecasting system. (time series, regression, multiple regression, and composite). However, DP has considerably less flexibility than even inexpensive applications like Demand Works …

  • How to Improve Knowledge Transfer on SAP Projects

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … pronouncements (i.e., the generic self-aggrandizement of various con men or directors and partners in the consulting firm who all have narcissistic personality disorders). The stated purposes of these meetings are to improve communication among the team. But the length of the meetings points to another purpose, reinforcing the organizational hierarchy of the group.
    “Sir, You Are Tedious”
    One of the more tedious parts of dealing with consulting companies is when they feel compelled to tell you about their great history. I sometimes feel like stopping them and saying.
    Look, your consulting company was started by several greedy …

  • Contract Clauses to Watch Out for In Indian Professional Service Agreements

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … jobs and to make like hell for US contracts, making many of them leave the field or simply retire early?
    The question is which Indian recruiting firms are not always lying is an important one. We have yet to have a report of an ethical or otherwise trustworthy recruiting or consulting firm if it is Indian run. This catches US domestic workers off guard, but India ranks far higher in corruption than the US, as tracked by various entities that rank corruption internationally.

    When US domestic worker works with Indian recruiters, they are often taken off guard by the low …