Executive Summary The subject of violent crime in the US is often blamed on gun ownership and poverty. We research the relationship between these and other areas to get to the real story. Introduction The US has a high violent crime rate compared to other developed countries. This has been known for a long time…
Executive Summary SAP API Management is resold Apigee and is promoted to improve integration. How valid are SAP’s claims around SAP API Management? Video Introduction: How Useful is SAP API Management? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP explains their SAP API Management product that has many holes in it and a problematic…
Executive Summary SAP provides advice for remediating code for S/4HANA. We review the quality of this advice (as well as the organization of SAP content) to help the client rather than help SAP. Introduction SAP has published its perspective on remediating code for S/4HANA. Both SAP and its consulting partners have consistently underrepresented the complexity…
Executive Summary A primary reason for hiring the major SAP consulting firms is for political insurance. If the project does poorly, the decision makers can say they went with a major brand. Video Introduction: Does Hiring Large SAP Consulting Firms Work as Political Insurance? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) Giant SAP consulting…
Executive Summary Internationally, Indians have demonstrated a pattern of discriminating against non-Indian workers. With the growing concentration of Indians in IT, this is a problem for domestic IT workers worldwide. The more Indians know what a domestic IT worker does, the more they can determine if someone they know can replace that domestic worker with…
Executive Summary SAP states that they have advanced predictive analytics for machine learning. In this article, we review the predictive analytics that SAP offers. Video Introduction: How to Understand SAP’s Strange Predictive Analytics for ML Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) Before HANA and machine learning, SAP used to market something called predictive…
Executive Summary SAP presents fictitious cloud revenues that are blindly accepted by Wall Steet. Wall Street shows close to zero interest in understanding SAP’s cloud revenues. Introduction SAP released the following explanation for a recent layoff. See our references for this article and related articles at this link. “Yet key indicators showed signs of weakness…
Executive Summary Forrester created another TCO/ROI study that was paid for by SAP. We review the accuracy of this Forrester SAP S4HANA study. Introduction Forrester has a history of taking money from SAP and producing precisely the outcome results that SAP would have wanted. Forrester will do this for any vendor and frequently does, as…
Executive Summary How are we able to so consistently out predict and analyze vendors like SAP and Oracle versus the major IT analysts? How does one measure and prove being smarter? Focusing on the outcomes of the analysis. Introduction All of the sources of information on enterprise software consider themselves intelligent. Gartner and Forrester have…
Executive Summary As part of a partnership, we also offer an external MRP optimizer that can replace the MRP functionality within any ERP system. This can allow for a fast improvement for companies looking to improve MRP. Introduction The concept of the Brightwork MRP Ninja, as proposed by Denis Myagkov, is that MRP systems cannot…