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  • Why Did SAP Fake S/4HANA Maturity So Aggressively?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    S/4HANA was massively exaggerated in terms of maturity by SAP.
    The question answered by this article is why SAP did it.

    Video Introduction: Why Did SAP Fake S/4HANA Maturity So Aggressively?
    https://youtu.be/LQZVi3mGOks
    Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)
    S/4HANA has had many implementation failures and is considered the riskiest of applications that we cover. It isn’t easy to see how a major new ERP version could be less successful than S/4HANA. Once you consider how falsified the S/4HANA go live numbers as we covered in How SAP …

  • How S/4HANA Cost Overruns and Failures are Suppressed

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    … million Swiss Francs (which is 1:1 to the USD), but this was just for the implementation. Something else to note, Inside IT of Switzerland did not even list the increase in the budget. The initial budget was contained in a 2017 article. Here is a quote from that article.
    “SAP Switzerland has secured a four-year “estimated compensation” contract totaling just under 6.7 million Swiss francs to make the ERP systems fit for the post-2025 period.”
    But now, let us compare this to reporting in IT Zoom, a German publication.
    First, this quote from Deloitte in IT

  • According to SAP, Indirect Access is All About Customers!

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    … concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    ComputerWeekly’s UKIR Conference
    ComputerWeekly is one of the many IT media entities that take income from SAP to promote their message. We will begin by evaluating statements around the customer orientation of indirect access in the ComputerWeekly SAP UKIR conference.
    Is SAP Updating Indirect Access Policy?
    “And almost 50% were also unaware of SAP’s attempts to update its indirect licensing policy in line with how enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are accessed now, as against in the …

  • How Useful is SAP API Management?

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    … to SAP and Oracle environments and address the topics of microservices and containers and new development approaches taking place in the cloud in great detail. So we agree with the model presented by Apigee. However, this cannot be effectively performed within SAP’s construct. SAP had a comparative advantage in ERP systems, and it is attempting to use the account control built up from its ERP heritage to extend and insert itself into the cloud. Customers should be careful not to let SAP do this because, so far, SAP has added nothing to the cloud except cloud confusion. The leaders …

  • How to Understand SAP's Advice on S4HANA Code Remediation

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    … which has never proven true in the history of SAP projects, except for highly regulated environments like pharmaceuticals that, for regulatory reasons, cannot be customized. This is the problem in taking advice from a packaged software vendor; the advice is nearly always to use their standard functionality. SAP has created an ERP system that has vastly overstated its ability to meet different industries’ requirements.

    SAP has a specific strategy for misleading customers when their predictions around their system’s usage are false, as we cover in the article How SAP Will Gaslight You When Their Software Does Not Work as

  • How to Understand SAP's Fictional Cloud Revenues

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    … functionality within SAP’s ERP system.
    Is SAP Growing in the SMB Space?
    This acquisition also speaks to SAP’s changing customer base. When the company was founded in 1972 by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim Germany, ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) was their first client. Early customers were specimens from the Fortune 500. Today, it’s small and medium-sized (SMEs) companies who are filling the order books. The kind of companies that really need help managing data, beyond traditional corporate data.
    No, that is false. SAP has been trying to capture this customer base, but SAP is …

  • How to Understand Forrester's Fake S/4HANA TCO Study

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    … market. By the numbers, we have 60,000 unique materials, 6,000 vendors, 4,000 customers, and an additional 10,000 partners.”
    Their answer would have been that ECC is running the supply chains of the largest companies in the world, so the scenario above is nothing they have not done. The study is not precise that the company moved from ECC; they may have moved from another ERP system. However, this study is trying to move the burning platform to S/4HANA when almost all the vast supply chains using SAP worldwide are running ECC.
    S/4HANA Provides …

  • How to Understand the MRP Ninja

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    Executive Summary

    As part of a partnership, we also offer an external MRP optimizer that can replace the MRP functionality within any ERP system.
    This can allow for a fast improvement for companies looking to improve MRP.

    Introduction
    The concept of the Brightwork MRP Ninja, as proposed by Denis Myagkov, is that MRP systems cannot be implemented without adjustment to the client. Therefore we do not provide a generic MRP engine, but rather one that is based upon the priorities of the specific company.
    The MRP Ninja Case Study
    At one particular FMCG manufacturer, a make to order model was …

  • Why Cloud is at a Crossroads

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    … are not SaaS or Cloud actually are.
    Vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM have been accused of “cloud-washing.”
    A Replay of the Package Solution Fiasco?
    If this sounds like a replay of the packaged software “revolution” in the 1980s and 1990s, it should. Custom solutions were replaced by ERP systems that promised to have all best practices. Companies let go of people supporting internally developed solutions to find that the external systems were not created for them. Deloitte and Accenture got rich billing for re-coding many requirements that were already covered by internal applications into ERP. Cloud …

  • How Commercial Software Became About Charging Multiple Times for the Same IP

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    … for Customers with the Desire for Duplicate Compensation
    This disdain for customers and the desire to be paid many times for modest intellectual property contributions is easily found among the mega-vendors. Oracle wants to be paid multiple times with booby-trapped configurations and byzantine audit rules; SAP wants indirect access rights. Can anyone reasonably argue that SAP and Oracle have not already fully monetized their only real contributions to the IP space (SAP’s ERP system and Oracle’s database)? When SAP introduced the S/4HANA ERP system, which is simply the next version of their flagship ECC ERP