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  • The Amazing Support Percentage of Revenues for SAP & Oracle

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    … with keeping Oracle and SAP operational. Both SAP and Oracle always push upgrades that consume more resources and have little impact on improving the software. Rimini Street has explained upgrades cost, and the price is very high. Many upgrade projects become costly affairs with a lot of billed hours for consulting firms.
    Some problems make SAP and Oracle’s support sticky. First, an SAP and Oracle’s customer getting off of support means they don’t get upgrades. If this tie were broken many, more companies would far more readily switch away from SAP and Oracle’s support.
    Moreover, once …

  • How to Understand Why Fiori Most Likely Won't be Able to Survive

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    … now.
    It was not only SAP and IT media entities that provided inaccurate information on Fiori, but quite a few SAP consulting companies. As shown in A Study into S/4HANA Implementations, some of these consulting firms exaggerated their S/4HANA experiences to promote their ability to obtain Fiori implementations services.
    What Fiori’s Coming Irrelevance Means for S/4HANA
    SAP has used Fiori to motivate customers to move to S/4HANA. However, if Fiori does not survive, investing anything in Fiori from the perspective of bringing it up to having users acclimate to it is an utterly wasted …

  • Considering What is Required to Setup Fiori

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    How easy is Fiori to set up and use? SAP tries to sidestep the effort involved in setting up Fiori, and Fiori is the only user interface for an application we have ever seen that does not ship “out of the box” but requires a special setup. SAP consulting firms also hide the effort involved in setting up Fiori as they want to obtain implementation business and they pick up the Fiori implementation work. You will see some informed quotes from a reliable source on this topic and how much work it is to set up Fiori.
    Our …

  • What Wall Street Does Not Understand About SaaS

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    … a negative ROI. This is due to enterprise software parasitization, particularly on the part of the major monopoly software vendors (Oracle, IBM, SAP & Microsoft). And by the major IT consulting companies. This is covered in the article How Vendors and Consulting Firms parasitized enterprise Software’s ROI. One perfect example of this phenomenon is that ERP systems became the most widely implemented enterprise software, while as covered in the book The Real Story Behind ERP: Separating Fact from Fiction.
    SaaS will lead to great things for customers, but it will not be a win for most software vendors. That …

  • G2Crowd's Problem with Financial Disclosure

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    … first-hand experience in the technologies they evaluate and get most of their information from executives at buyers or executives at vendors and consulting firms. Gartner is also not a research entity. They compare very poorly to real research entities once you dig into the details, as we did in the article How Gartner’s Research Compares to Real Research Entities. Gartner serves to direct IT spending to the most expensive solutions as these are the companies that can afford to pay Gartner the most money. Gartner has enormously aggressive internal sales goals that place accuracy far below revenue …

  • How to Manage Buying from Software from Large Vendors

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    … is the exact opposite approach proposed by Gartner or Forrester. With Gartner or Forrester, you concentrate your purchases with large vendors. Gartner and Forrester’s approach completely ignores account control and how the vendor comes to influence the account. It is also the exact opposite of the approach recommended by consulting firms.
    Strategy 1: Purchasing Software From Large Software Vendors
    Many purchasing companies think they will minimize risk by purchasing software from major “brand” software vendors. Both the large consulting companies and IT analysts are major proponents of this philosophy. I quote from the Brightwork Research & Analysis Press book Gartner …

  • How to Understand the IT Project Failure Ratio

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    … problem; it’s the organization’s failure to communicate effectively with its people that sets them up for digital transformation trouble from the start.
    This is a very industry-friendly interpretation of the reasons for the failure. Brightwork Research & Analysis has provided analysis of false information provided by vendors and consulting firms to software buyers. However, CNBC receives income from vendors and consulting firms, so it is not surprising that they don’t even bring these points up.
    Feeling Confident…For No Reason
    Most supply chain IT projects I am familiar with start off very optimistically, with the team and …

  • How Obama as Nothing But a Tool for Concentrated Power

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    … never recovered after advice from American economists and consulting firms, who cleaned up — Goldman Sacks style — now doubt eating at the finest Russian restaurants, while their corrupt advice caused Russians to have to sell their family heirlooms in makeshift markets in order survive. The American economists at the time called this act of desperation the flowering of — “Russian entrepreneurialism.” — no doubt between spoonfuls of Beluga caviar. As an American society we bear a tremendous responsibility for what we did to Russia, yet almost no one even knows about it. Of course its hard to have a conscious when you …

  • SAP License and SAP Management Fact Checking

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    Our services related to SAP Licensing and terms
    How we offer the real story on how SAP operates.
    How we mix contract management with a detailed understanding of SAP products.

    Introduction
    We are the only entity that fact checks SAP and SAP consulting firms. We are in constant communication with clients regarding things that SAP is doing on topics ranging from licensing to indirect access to terms and conditions as well as how SAP enforces rules on accounts. In the area of indirect access, we are the only entity to have evaluated and found a legal liability between …

  • The Problem with the Term Digital Transformation

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    … seconds attention spans. How would you recommend communicating in these cases?
    In this example, some of the parts of the process are becoming more “digital.” However, there is still not a very good reason to use the term digital transformation. Remember that the term was re-coined by vendors and consulting firms, and the vast majority of times, the term describes processes that were already digital.
    This gets to another issue. What if a process is made digital but is better off not being digital? For example, who enjoys talking to robot phone services when one calls for customer service …