Executive Summary SAP has relentlessly promoted HANA, but HANA has not paid off; it is more of a liability for both customers and eventually for SAP. We cover how SAP markets HANA versus how competitors market both applications and databases. Video Introduction: SAP’s Investment in HANA Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP…
Executive Summary We explain what the HANA database is at the most basic level. We then explain the primary beneficial usage of HANA and then its limitations. Video Introduction: Why SAP HANA Is a Fast Database For Analytics Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has made many exaggerated proposals around HANA’s performance….
Executive Summary SAP has a specific premeditated way of paying off consulting and media entities to get them to point the blame towards customers. These financial connections are not declared by either IT media entities or those interviewed in the articles. Video Introduction: Formal Way of Blaming the Customer Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched…
Executive Summary CRM vendors state that their applications increase sales forecast accuracy. We question this proposal by CRM vendors and ask for evidence. Introduction This article discusses one strong reason why CRM systems have such a problem earning a positive return on investment, which may be related to forecasting. Our References for This Article If…
Executive Summary Forecast bias is often discussed without stating how it is deliberate. Sales forecasting, along with marketing forecasting, has the highest deliberate bias. Introduction Before writing this article, I spent time reading some of the many articles on sales forecasting right here on LinkedIn. Almost all of the articles I read were from people…
Executive Summary ASAP was a methodology (or method actually) to reduce SAP project timelines. RDS was a grouping of tools designed to do the same. What is the reality? Introduction SAP’s ASAP was one of the company’s broader initiatives. SAP ASAP was a project methodology whose intended purpose was to speed SAP’s implementation projects. In…
Setting Forecast Parameters in Software: Alpha Beta Gamma, etc Screenshots and examples from SAP ERP, SAP APO, Demand Works Smoothie. What The Book Covers Finally, a book that focuses in-depth on forecast parameters like alpha beta gamma as well as others. Forecast parameters are one of the least understood areas of statistical forecasting systems, and statistical…
Safety Stock and Service Levels: A New Approach Screenshots and examples from SAP APO, Demand Works Smoothie, 3S. What the Book is About A thoroughly researched explanation of how to leverage safety stock in systems for supply planning. This book explains many of the great misunderstandings that surround safety stock, including the aspect of safety…
Executive Summary The State of MDM at Companies. The Benefits and Challenges of Relational Databases. Using Relational Databases for MDM as well as for Transactional Data. Challenges of MDM Master data management has some very definitive challenges, and those challenges enlarge when the system must be managed in SAP. All of the SAP’s various applications…
Executive Summary What Drove an Investigation into Master Data Management Solutions. What are the Common Problems with Master Data Management Solutions? Why do Some Vendors go to Such Lengths to Prevent People from Seeing the Solutions on their Websites? What is MDM? Master data management or MDM describes the approach for maintaining the master data…