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  • A List of SAP Implementation Failures

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … system that was introduced to save the council time and money.
    A staff survey reveals satisfaction rates have improved only slightly a few months down the line.
    Chief executive David Jenkins admitted there was ‘much to be done.’ The Dorset Enterprise System (DES), the local name for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), was heralded as a major new investment when it came online last year.
    Introduced as part of the Fit for the Future restructuring programme, it changes the way the council organises things like payroll, procurement, HR and finance.
    But there have been regular problems with the system, with some …

  • How Did DDMRP Convert So Many Vendors?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … not accepting these best practices. We cover this in the article How SAP Uses Best Practices to Control the Implementation. Other ERP vendors and consulting firms do the same thing — but SAP has pushed the practice to the most extreme degree.
    Shea
    Shea is a company that has incorporated the use of DDMRP but which primarily implements Microsoft Dynamics or Syspro. It should be noted that neither of these applications has good MRP engines, and neither company has much expertise in supply planning. These ERP applications are sold based on their integrated nature — not because they are good at supply

  • Why Competitive Intelligence is a Bad Market to Sell Research

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    … shares on LinkedIn. 
    Vendors are highly concentrated, and we know who the decision-makers are within these vendors and who the buyer is.
    We know what vendors are interested in what research item. For example, the most interested parties in the S/4HANA case study research are the other major ERP vendors.

    Problems with Competitive Intelligence
    So while the competitive intelligence market would seem perfect for Brightwork, it is, in fact, a bad market.
    Here are some reasons why:

    Smaller vendors tend not to have budgets for competitive intelligence research.
    Larger vendors often have competitive intelligence groups, which report up …

  • How Accurate Was SAP in Keeping S/4HANA Exclusive to HANA?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … benefits (which we covered in the article How Accurate Was SAP on In Memory Computing?) Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft all swiftly added column-orientated capabilities to their databases. In the article How Accurate with Bloor Research on Oracle In Memory?, we agreed with Bloor Research that columnar data stores for databases that supported ERP systems were more of a marketing gimmick. Bringing extra complexity into the environment that the ERP system would not leverage, then actual need. But as Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft followed suit, there was never any reason, outside of the monopolistic lock-in restriction, for SAP …

  • Our Research Study into SAP S4HANA

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … be answered around S4HANA.

    Introduction
    Before undertaking research, we are increasingly obtaining input for potential new research. This article will describe potential research into SAP S4HANA.
    About S4HANA
    SAP S4HANA is a solution that was announced in 2015 with great fanfare. S4HANA the follow on application to SAP’s primary ERP system. SAP is careful not to call S4HANA the legal successor to SAP ECC/Business Suite. This is so SAP can charge anew for S4HANA instead of having companies receive S4HANA for free as part of the natural support contract rights.
    The vendors that specialize in ERP often run …

  • Potential Research into SAP C4HANA

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    … s history in the CRM space. CRM has been a sore point for SAP, with one of the most common vendors bringing about an SAP indirect access claim being when customers implemented Salesforce.
    The vendors that specialize in CRM often run into SAP C4HANA in prospects that run the SAP ERP system. When this happens, the vendor not only faces SAP’s marketing and sales machine but a series of SAP consulting firms that repeat what SAP says. This proposed research study would get to the reality of SAP’s C4HANA solution and would answer the following questions.
    Item #1 …

  • Potential Research into SAP Multi Bank Connectivity

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    … SAP Multi Bank Connectivity.
    About Multi Bank Connectivity
    SAP Multi Bank Connectivity is a solution that SAP has been marketing under different names for over ten years.
    The vendors that specialize in bank connectivity and treasury functionality often run into SAP Multi Bank Connectivity in prospects that run the SAP ERP system. When this happens, the vendor not only faces SAP’s marketing and sales machine but a series of SAP consulting firms that repeat what SAP says. This proposed research study would get to the reality of SAP’s Multi Bank Connectivity solution and would answer the following questions …

  • Why SAP, Dell Boomi Nor MuleSoft Can Do What the SAP Integration Ninja Does

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    … or your competitors.

    Amazon didn’t take a “best” WMS/E-Commerce solution from the market but developed its own.
    Uber didn’t take a “best” Transportation Management solution from the market but made their own. Just take a look at Walmart tech stack.

    Notice you don’t see any ERP/WMS nor any Dell Boomi/Mulesoft, while there are dozens of systems in use. 
    Instead, JavaScript, GitHub, Python, Git, and Node.js are some of Walmart’s popular tools.
    The SAP Integration Ninja Approach
    Important features of the SAP Integration Ninja

    The SAP Integration Ninja downtime to update the …

  • Extracting Meaning from Diginomica's Interview with SAP CEO Christian Klein

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … companies in these areas.
    SAP promised a supply chain transformation when prospects purchased R/3/ECC/Business Suite/S/4HANA, and nothing all that great happened. ECC is just a transaction processing system with a few underdeveloped supply chain procedures contained with it called MRP and DRP (like nearly all ERP systems, by the way). SAP’s APO has generally failed to meet expectations. IBP, APO’s pseudo replacement (replacing some parts, but not others), has also so far been disappointing and offers little advantages over Excel with some custom development once all costs and efforts are taken into account …

  • Why Custom Development Should Be Expected for Nearly All Applications

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … repeat themselves continually? This is particularly true of ERP systems. Sales had personally pressured me to minimize the duration, and even when we presented unrealistic plans. I don’t recall the CIO or director pushing back. I was told on several occasions that all the salesperson would need to do was say I was standing in the way of the sales, and I would be immediately replaced.
    CIO’s Pushing for Unrealistic Expectations
    CIOs are often presented as the mature people in the room that help moderate salespeople’s influence from the vendor. However, this characterization is unwarranted. In …