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…
Executive Summary SAP has an enormous product database of software. We count and categorize the SAP software product database by how active or popular each of the SAP products is. Introduction At Brightwork Research & Analysis, we spend many hours per week researching SAP. However, it is a full-time job keeping up with SAP’s products…
Executive Summary SAP has created misleading impressions regarding HANA’s growth. We fact-checked SAP by using the independent DB-Engines ranking. Video Introduction: Fact Checking HANA’s Growth Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been proposing that HANA is the fast growing database of all time. Part of this puffery is simply designed to…
Executive Summary SAP promotes SAP Cloud to a high degree. However, there are no reviews on G2Crowd. We ask why there aren’t any reviews if the offering is as popular as SAP claims. Video Introduction: Why Doesn’t the SAP Cloud Platform Have Any Reviews on G2Crowd? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP…
Executive Summary Gartner has made several bizarre statements about S/4HANA, but which makes sense when you figure out how much money Gartner gets from SAP. S/4HANA Cloud has most of its live customers as SAP consulting companies. Introduction to the Magic Quadrant When they scored SAP quite low in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Cloud Financial, they…
Executive Summary Gartner proposes it has no bias, but it takes billions in revenue from software vendors. Gartner stacks the deck in favor of large vendors and has many dimensions of bias, all of which are undeclared. Introduction In 2006, InformationWeek wrote an article titled The Credibility of Analysts. In this article, IW brought up…