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… benefits ranging from implementation to business process to maintenance. This claim took advantage of the fact that only a small percentage of IT decision makers understand what makes a simpler data model, and secondly if there is a direct relationship between a simpler data model and a smoother or faster ERP implementation. You will learn how accurate SAP was in their claims around S4HANA having a simplified data model.
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… furniture, etc..). What SAP needed, if they were going to expand into procurement software, was a direct procurement acquisition. That is the procurement of items that are used by a company to either make an item or which are resold.
This type of acquisition could have been integrated into their ERP system and would have connected back to the Materials Management module. Companies don’t need to run MRP and DRP on office supplies, forklifts, and furniture.”
What Happened After the Ariba Acquisition
Years after the Ariba acquisition, I have yet to see Ariba make any impact on any of …

… At Brightwork, we have analyzed all of SAP’s performance claims regarding HANA. Not only is HANA not “100,000x faster than any other technology in the world,” it is most likely slower than competing alternatives, as is covered in the article HANA as a Mismatch for S/4HANA and ERP.
And in the article What is the Actual Performance of HANA?
Conclusion and Calculation
SAP receives a 0% accuracy rating on HANA, being 100,000x faster than any other technology in the world.
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… changer because everything is faster and better on HANA, as you know. This statement was made after 2013 when ByDesign was briefly discontinued before it was for some reason given a new lease on life. The combination of ByDesign with HANA made little sense as ByDesign is a low cost ERP system, while HANA is the most expensive database in its category. You will learn about SAP’s accuracy on ByDesign.
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… 3D visualization vendor that will “perfectly integrate” into SAP PLM. But it has never become a solution that you see implemented on SAP projects. We compared trying to manage the BOM in SAP ECC versus using a specific PLM solution in the book The Bill of Materials in Excel, Planning, ERP, and PLM/BMMS Software.
Conclusion and Calculation
SAP receives a 10% accuracy rating on SAP PLM. While virtually nothing that SAP said about PLM came true, and the initial product was vaporware, they have made some investments in the area.
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… ByDesign never made very much of an impact on cloud ERP competitors. The state of ByDesign was covered in the book SAP Nation 2.0.
“At its architectural core, ByDesign was not built as a multi-tenant solution and SAP quickly discovered that scaling out was a costly nightmare for a solution that could never turn a profit….At that stage, SAP withdrew it from the market and spent 18 months re-engineering so that is could get better operational metrics and performance. It was still a mini R/3 with an interface to match although not as crappy …

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

Running S/4HANA on a Smartwatch?
There are several peculiar things about this statement.

First, a smartwatch is too small of a screen to do much of anything in an ERP system other than receiving a notification, which in that case, accessing an ERP system is unnecessary.
Secondly, Fiori has had an insufficient uptake even with customers that use full sizes computers, much less using a smartwatch.
The overall statement is confusing. S/4HANA is not being “run” on

… the field, we have found HANA not only has no performance benefit over previous generation databases but significant performance problems running MRP.
This we covered in the article How to Interpret MRP Performance Problems HANA.
As is covered in the article why HANA is a mismatch for S/4HANA and ERP, HANA is a poor match for ERP systems because it has shown to be inferior to previous versions of Oracle and IBM Microsoft for transaction processing.
Conclusion and Calculation
SAP receives a 0% accuracy rating on MRP being either faster on HANA or MRP without processing time with HANA …

… Customers 0% 100% 2014 2016 See Article Link

HANA is the Fastest Growing Product in the History of Software 0% 100% 2013 2017 See Article Link

SAP Mobility is Number One in Mobility Due to Sybase Acquisition 0% N/A 2010 N/A See Article Link

You Can Run S/4HANA on a Smartwatch 0% 100% 2015 2017 See Article Link

HANA Will Make Run MRP Faster than On Any Other Database 0% 100% 2015 2016 See Article Link

HANA Will be an Perfect Fit for ERP Systems? 0% 100% 2011 2017 See Article Link

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