Executive Summary Vishal Sikka makes several false statements about HANA in this interview with Dennis Howlett. One of these is a hilarious proposal around curing cancer with genetic algorithms in HANA. Video Introduction: How Accurate Was Vishal Sikka on the Future of HANA? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) The video below was…
Executive Summary SAP made amazing claims around Vora, which connects HANA to Hadoop. We analyze how accurate SAP has been on Vora. Introduction SAP has been proposing HANA for a new purpose, namely to serve as the database for the customer’s SAP Big Data. Is HANA the right choice for Big Data? That is it…
Executive Summary The Economist provides coverage on Africa; however, something is very off about their coverage of the Tanzanian President Joseph Magufuli. We cover The Economist’s accuracy in this article. Introduction On May 26, 2016, The Economist wrote an article on John Magufuli entitled Government by Gesture. In this article, we will check the accuracy…
Executive Summary SAP’s produced a highly misleading 2017 white paper on indirect access. In the white paper, SAP introduced a new policy for SAP ECC customers and S/4HANA. We analyze SAP’s proposal regarding indirect static read scenarios and Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P). Video Introduction: Brightwork Analysis of SAP’s 2017 White Paper on Indirect Access…
Executive Summary Forrester was paid off by SAP to create a false TCO study that is inaccurate. SAP fed a passive Forrester TCO information on HANA. Introduction SAP paid Forrester to produce a fake TCO study of HANA published in April 2014. This study had no validity and passively used information provided by SAP without…
Executive Summary SAP’s original plan for dominating the database market with HANA was overly optimistic. The software was given a massive marketing and PR push. Video Introduction: Changes in Policy Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been communicating that it will replace Oracle DB with HANA on a mass scale. This…
Executive Summary Seeking Alpha proposed interesting things regarding SQL vs. NoSQL. The article covered commercial database growth and questioned whether commercial SQL databases had hit a wall of diminishing utility. Seeking Alpha’s prediction for NoSQL is, in part, due to the advancements in hardware that allow data to be stored at a lower level of…
Executive Summary Wall Street continually pushes companies to be Cloud, but without understanding how cloud revenues work. We cover what Wall Street is missing in their analysis. Introduction This article will cover Wall Street’s perspective on SaaS and what the real story is with the shift in the commercial software market. What Wall Street Interprets…
Executive Summary Forrester has one of the most insane Big Data or data warehouse rankings (we can’t tell which) that we have ever seen. Reviewing this ranking is its form of comedy and indicator of how little Forrester knows about the topic. Introduction In Forrester’s “Big Data Warehouse” 2017 ranking, Forrester made some peculiar decisions related…
Executive Summary Most of the sources that covered HANA were wrong. Only a few were right. In this article, we cover who was right and who was wrong. Video Introduction: Who Was Right and Who Was Wrong on SAP HANA? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP pushed the idea of HANA very…