Executive Summary Hasso provides several assertions regarding the benefits of S/4HANA for the cloud. We review the accuracy of these benefits. Video Introduction: Is S/4HANA Actually Designed for the Cloud? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) One of the common areas of confusion is the S4HANA cloud. That is the deployment of S/4HANA…
Executive Summary S/4HANA has very high customization or SAP enhancement adjustment overhead. Learn about the reality of the S/4HANA customization versus the SAP hype. Video Introduction: S/4HANA and Customization Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) S/4HANA has very high customization or SAP enhancement adjustment overhead. SAP has had a long term strategy of…
Executive Summary It is increasingly evident that SAP has a very high maintenance overhead and that the new products from SAP are worse than SAP’s ERP system. The new concept for getting value from SAP is to use non-SAP applications with non-SAP infrastructures like AWS and Google Cloud. Introduction to SAP as Legacy In a…
Executive Summary SAP charges customers indirect access for connecting to their systems. If SAP can charge customer’s indirect access, can SAP be charged indirect access to connect to the customer’s legacy? Introduction Indirect access is when a software vendor charges to access the data that is stored in their system. The concept is still relatively…
Executive Summary Indirect access is a claim brought by SAP that they can charge customers for any system connected to any SAP system. Indirect access contradicts US antitrust law, and in this article, we will explain why this is the case. Introduction There has been quite a lot of discussion about indirect access due to…
Executive Summary There are facts of the Diageo vs. SAP case that bring up important questions regarding SAP’s logic and what a poor job Diageo did in this case. To understand indirect access as enforced by SAP, it is necessary to connect the topic to CRM and SAP’s concern with Salesforce. Introduction In this article, I…
Executive Summary SAP’s support has been eviscerated in an attempt to maximize its margin. What can be done about the SAP support conundrum? Video Introduction: What to do About SAP’s Declining Support Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP’s support has been in a long-term decline for many years. SAP has strip-mined the…
Executive Summary SAP makes exaggerated TCO claims without providing evidence. We cover how SAP presents its TCO story. Introduction TCO or total cost of ownership is the total cost of owning and operating an application. TCO means making a model that accounts for the different cost categories. I have written the only book on enterprise…
Executive Summary Snow Software explained how to trade in unused SAP licenses for S/4 HANA. Snow’s article makes unfounded assumptions regarding the readiness of S/4HANA while approaching the question from the perspective of only the licensing implications. Introduction In this article, we will evaluate a strategy that is proposed by Snow Software on their website….
Executive Summary The pricing of SAP or the price of SAP applications is kept secret, making pricing estimates challenging to obtain. SAP also has complex discounts, which make it impossible to know the price of SAP software accurately. Introduction SAP pricing is a mysterious topic hidden from public view, making purchasing from SAP a convoluted…