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How Accurate Was Dr. Hubert Dreyfus on AI Predictions in His Book What Computers Can't Do?
ByPrimary Researcher March 4, 2020January 16, 2024

… working in practice to restate the hypothesis or the hypothesis’s virtuous nature. Many confuse repeating an unproven hypothesis with making a statement about something known to be true. We have found this issue across several areas that have consumed enormous IT investments. In the book The Real Story Behind ERP, we reviewed all the academic literature on ERP and found no research studies could find an ROI from ERP systems. We covered the claims of Big Data in the article The Pipe Dream and Misunderstanding of Big Data. We found that most of the claims are highly exaggerated and …

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How Real is SAP's Intelligent Enterprise?
ByPrimary Researcher January 23, 2020May 24, 2021

… business processes through its intelligent suite of products:

Customer Experience
Manufacturing and the Supply Chain
Digital Core (ERP)
People Engagement (HR)
Network and Spend Management (procurement)

So SAP has very little customer experience business (read CRM). Yes, SAP customers use SAP for a lot of manufacturing and supply chain and ERP, and they use SAP for HR, and quite a bit less for procurement (SAP has little overlap between its ERP customers and its customers that use Ariba).
So all that we have here is a statement of things that SAP customers use from SAP. There is nothing notably different …

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Why Both Superconvergence and Hyperconvergence are Hollow Marketing Constructs
ByPrimary Researcher January 14, 2020January 16, 2024

… perspectives in their research.
How the Philosophy of “One Ring to Rule Them All” Invariably Leads to Lock-In
Another problem exists with this interpretation of hyperconvergence as a “turn-key” solution from one vendor. The problem is that this type of thing has been promised numerous times, ranging from ERP systems to selecting a single systems integrator. And in each case, it has led to overwhelming account control by vendors of customers and the use of uncompetitive offerings by the customer who is deluded by sales pitches into thinking that one vendor offers the best of everything.
Notice these …

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Evaluating The Quality of Gartner's Advice on S/4HANA Licensing
ByPrimary Researcher December 31, 2019August 4, 2023

… 3 of their funding coming from software vendors, this has zero impact on what they write.
Get SAP to Give You Their Price List?
For perpetual licensing: Obtain pricing list information and use it to quantify license needs and determine the level of discounting required to make a deal within ERP budget constraints.
This quote in response to his from a person who prefers to remain anonymous.
What does “detailed price list information” have to do with “quantify license needs” – Who would suggest the first can be used to get to the second? And good luck with the first one …

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Understanding The Brightwork Estimate of The Amount of Money Paid by SAP to Gartner Per Year
ByPrimary Researcher December 29, 2019April 29, 2021

… growth. Gartner was a considerable proponent against custom development, as we cover in the article How to Understand Gartner and the Patent Software System, and in favor of packaged applications (as packaged application vendors could pay them and internal development departments could not) as well as supporting the superiority of ERP systems (without any evidence by the way). Gartner has been a constant cheerleader of SAP and other ERP vendors who have also paid Gartner to propose the necessity of ERP systems. Those large ERP vendors should be preferenced over best of breed vendors for non-ERP applications and versus …

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Is Oracle Board Member Vishal Sikka a World Expert on AI?
ByPrimary Researcher December 17, 2019May 8, 2022

… what Vishal is discussing in this area of the video is accurate.
Moving to a Single HANA Instance?: One of Vishal’s more hallucinatory proposals was that all applications and analytics would run from a single HANA instance. Did we cover this fallacy in the article SAP’s Big Idea: ERP Data and Big Data on the Same Database?
Massive Performance Improvement?: Vishal claims that a process that previously took 3 days in ERP on Oracle was reduced to 2 seconds on HANA. Let us do the math on this. 3 days × 24 hours per day× 60 minutes per hour …

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Managing the SAP Investment

How to Remove ABAP from SAP Environments
ByPrimary Researcher December 9, 2019March 26, 2021

… problem. Developers should be learning a new language because ABAP is an inferior development language.
The Logic of Developing Outside of ABAP
It is true that customization should be developed outside ABAP.
If SAP tries to force their customers into S/4HANA Cloud SaaS, there cannot be customization inside the ERP system itself and you have to develop against open interfaces and APIs.
It does not make any sense to use ABAP (Cloud) then. One challenge is to get a seamless user interface for both ERP system and custom development. By providing OData that is not very widespread outside SAP …

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Managing the SAP Investment

How To Reduce Your SAP Investment
ByPrimary Researcher November 21, 2019March 26, 2021

… one could improve an existing ERP platform instead of getting rid of them.
How to Do It
One is to stop buying, decommission, and discontinue support on non-ERP applications purchased from SAP. The logic for erasing the non-ERP applications is that every application introduced by SAP outside its ERP systems is one of the lowest-rated applications in their respective software categories.

The waste in ERP systems, particularly from large vendors, is covered in the book Software Wasteland, a quotation we have in the article The Enormous Waste of ERP Systems.
If companies can shrink their SAP footprint …

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SAP Cloud

A Brightwork Warning on SAP's Cloud Extension Program
ByPrimary Researcher November 17, 2019April 20, 2023

… s Maturity: As we have covered in great detail in articles like Why Did SAP Fake S/4HANA Maturity so Aggressively? Why Do SAP S/4HANA Customers Have to Sign NDA? S/4HANA is still not ready to be implemented. It probably has the highest failure rate of any significant ERP application, with a new failure coming to light every few weeks. Again, none of the product understanding is worked into this analysis, making Gartner look like they merely repeat SAP’s marketing talking points.
Contract Degradation: New SAP contracts are worse for customers than older contracts. For example, newer …

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Foresight Fall 2019 Issue Description
ByPrimary Researcher November 15, 2019March 21, 2021

Executive Summary

Foresight is the recommended forecasting journal of Brightwork Research & Analysis.
Foresight has the following topics in its Fall 2019 issue.

Description
Fall 2019
Special Feature
Autonomous or “Lights Out” Supply-Chain Planning: What Niels van Hove requires new Technology
Analogous to the emergence of autonomous vehicles is the momentum toward autonomous supply-chain planning, given names such as “lights out” planning. Niels van Hove describes this development as the third wave of supply-chain planning, following the functionality in ERPs (first wave) and advanced planning software (second wave). But he argues that before the lights can be turned …

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