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…
Executive Summary SAP has promoted HANA as connected to Hadoop and Big Data, however, this is untrue. SAP would like to “piggyback” on Hadoop, but Big Data does not need HANA. Introduction to the HANA and Big Data Reality SAP has been proposing HANA for a new purpose, namely to serve as the database for…
Executive Summary While there is a question as to whether HANA is appropriate for an enterprise data warehouse, SAP has a strategy for discounting HANA that connects to their overall strategy. HANA and BW can be compared to the enterprise data warehouse. Video Introduction: HANA for EDW Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)…
Executive Summary This article covers Gartner’s sales tactics in its Fort Myers office. Gartner has copied the Scientology tactic of constantly pushing customers to higher packages when the first packaged sold to them does not work as promised. Video Introduction: The Gartner Sales Boiler Room in Fort Myers Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the…