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  • How to Respond to SAP's Arguments Against AWS and GCP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … to cloud, and second, all advice will lead right back into the clutches of SAP. SAP is also struggling with how to jam as much of their investments into on-premises technologies in the cloud context. ABAP is a perfect example of this, but there are many others. The SAP consulting firms are incentivized to redirect any customer questions about cloud back to SAP Cloud, a non-starter as far as all three of the authors of this book are concerned. Those customers looking for advice on leveraging AWS or Google Cloud (that is, real cloud) for their SAP environment …

  • How AWS and Google Cloud Speed the Implementation of SAP and Oracle

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … are based upon billing hours. The agreement between these vendors and the consulting entities is to gain recommendations from consulting companies in return for receiving implementation work. You will learn the reality of how SAP and Oracle can be sped with AWS and Google Cloud and how SAP and Oracle consulting firms stop their customers from improving efficiency for financial reasons.
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  • How to Understand AWS’s Advice on Migration

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … point in migrating away from Oracle DBAs if something else cannot take its place.
    Well, something did.
    AWS’s Managed Services
    AWS came up with the managed DB through its managed services, which manages overall infrastructure, databases being one component of this. This AWS has had for a while. However, migration has been performed by consulting firms with expertise in AWS. AWS has recently “greased the skids” for companies with the desire to migrate databases to AWS. And also to migrate away from the database to different databases. Let us see the following quotation from the AWS website.
    “The service

  • How to Apply the Concept of Two Tier ERP to Your Company

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … of a long-term strategy. In the past, it was considered more appealing to state that, while one had multiple ERP instances, eventually, the company would move to a single instance.
    The multi-ERP strategy has been around for as long as there have been ERP systems. Yet IT analysts, consulting firms, and IT trade periodicals that discuss the “new trend” of two-tiered ERP strategies, most often fail to bring up the rather important fact that a big part of the ERP value proposition was supposed to be a single instance of ERP, as explained in the following quote …

  • Does SAP's Acquisition of Qualtrics Make Any Sense?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … deal than the one just made with SAP?
    That is a massive lie, and it along with other things I learned about Qualtrics, it makes it challenging to believe different things the company says. As the quotes below demonstrate, Qualtrics had a very pressing need to issue an IPO (or be acquired, either one will do), and a primary reason is that Qualtrics had fished out its potential prospect base. It must access a new customer base, and SAP is a possible fit to help them do this, although it remains to have been how comfortable large consulting firms will

  • How Will GE's Decline Impact the Cult of Six Sigma?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Industry
    As the following quotation explains, six Sigma became a cottage industry with certifying entities designed to shrink heads, a conglomeration of consulting firms dedicated to promoting Six Sigma.
    “After twenty-five years of Six Sigma, there is no evidence of any success, only an endless parade of hollow promises, followed by failure after failure. Proponents claim that Six Sigma has saved corporations and companies like Motorola and General Electric, billions and billions of dollars, year after year, and that Champions, Experts and Black Belts can train and lead your people into performing continuous improvements on your companies processes …

  • How to Understand Why ERP Systems Have a High TCO and Low ROI

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … it was simply all too easy.

    The Team Effort Required for the Analytical Failure
    It was a team effort to make such poor decisions, and the research shows repeated unsubstantiated comments made by IT analysts and consulting companies. The book chronicles evidence-free statements from the most prestigious IT analysis, consulting firms, and enterprise software media. What is clear is that most of the entities that put out articles on enterprise software combine a financial bias with an inability to perform original research — or even to review research that should not have been that difficult to find.
    Ubiquity of ERP …

  • What Are the True Benefits of Two Tiered ERP?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … so far from their original intent in this regard, as I tend to work for just one subset of enterprise software that is connected perpetually to ERP systems.
    Multi ERP Strategy
    The multi-ERP strategy has been around for as long as there have been ERP systems. Yet IT analysts, consulting firms and IT trade periodicals that discuss the new trend of two-tiered ERP strategies, fail to bring up the rather important fact that a big part of the ERP value proposition was supposed to be a single instance of ERP. This is explained in the following quote from …

  • How Accurate are the All Industries Benefits of ERP?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … been developed to offer companies software that meets their requirements. This is another example of a prediction made by many ERP vendors that helped them get sales but has been bad for their “customers” and bad for the enterprise software market overall.
    Should You Rely Upon Deloitte (Or Other Major Consulting Firms) for Process Industry ERP?
    Deloitte both recommends and staffs SAP and Oracle ERP for its process industry and non-process industry clients primarily. However, these applications, SAP ECC/R/3 or Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One, have quite a poor process industry functionality. This is consistent with a …

  • How to Understand The Logic Used to Sell ERP Systems

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … made based upon what is pleasing to think to be true.
    Argumentum ad Novitatem/Appeal to Novelty: A proposal is claimed to be true/superior because it is new or modern.

    This will now put us in the right frame of mind to review the logic presented by ERP vendors, consulting firms, and IT analysts.
    The Logic Used to Sell ERP
    The following chapter will cover the logic used to sell ERP systems. Each will be analyzed. However, a brief explanation of each will help set the stage.

    Y2K (the Year 2000): This was the concern related to correctly calculating …