Search Results for: erp

  • Does Brightwork Have an Axe to Grind with SAP?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … a research organization. The information they do release has only one purpose: to increase the sale of SAP software and services. And SAP has a long history of releasing hyperbolic or inaccurate information. SAP’s inaccuracies go back to their beginning when they made a wide variety of claims regarding ERP systems, the vast majority of which did not come true.
    SAP’s History of Inaccuracy
    We have documented a large number of these statements on the Brightwork website. Exaggerations can be found in the quarterly analyst reports, Inaccuracies in AP’s Q2 Analyst Call.
    SAP’s inaccuracies rise to …

  • How to Understand The Declining Upgradability of SAP Products

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … the complexity of these changes is communicated.
    Quite the opposite, in fact.
    The SAP media system has made a concerted effort to present all the changes as fast and better than anything they replaced — both functionality, speed, or other characteristics of the application and databases, but also the implementation speed implementation simplicity.
    The Expense of Upgrades
    In SAP, upgrades are major expense items for a company. Rimini Street in the following graphic explains this.

    This cost to upgrade is nearly always dramatically underestimated by IT departments. This is because the costs are hidden in the ERP budget.
    The Cost and

  • The Real Reason for Under Armour SAP's S/4HANA Problems

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    The following was published in CFO.
    “On Under Armour’s third-quarter earnings call on October 31, Patrik Frisk, the company’s president and chief operating officer, said the struggles with the July 1 launch of its integrated ERP business solution “negatively impacted” third-quarter results by causing disruptions in Under Armour’s supply chain.
    “During this system migration, we have encountered a number of change

  • A Study into SAP HANA's TCO (Intro) (2017)

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    SAP is proposing that HANA should replace Oracle and IBM, and one argument is that HANA has a lower TCO than Oracle and IBM.
    SAP paid Forrester and other media entities to promote the idea of HANA’s lower TCO.
    We created an independent TCO.

    Introduction to HANA’s TCO
    This is the first study of its kind. It is the first study into the reality of HANA’s TCO. SAP has made many statements about HANA lower TCO. SAP has proposed lower TCO for both HANA (the database) and S/4HANA (the ERP system). Yet, every single …

  • The Amazing Support Percentage of Revenues for SAP & Oracle

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … readers. 

    On Maintenance Fees
    “According to Veverka (2009), Oracle’s income from maintenance fees is more than 51% of its total revenue, and SAP’s is 50% (SAP Investor Relations 2013). With all of the aforementioned issues, implementation, and associated service costs, not many can afford to go for an ERP implementation.”
    This percentage has only increased since this time. The support part of the business is growing faster than the rest of SAP or Oracle’s business.
    In fact, as of our calculation for the first quarter of 2018, SAP’s percentage of revenues that are made up …

  • Understanding SAP and Harvey Weinstein and the Abuse of Power

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … to whitewash behavior.
    How SAP Perpetuates Inaccurate Perceptions
    Here is an example of how inaccurate perceptions are launched by SAP and accepted and cloned by all the media and ecosystem.
    Bill McDermott, SAP CEO, in the earnings, call for 2017 Q3 on October 19, 2017:
    “SAP, the most innovative cloud company,” “The reality is we’ve added more cloud ERP customers in 7 months than some competitors have added in 7 years”.
    What McDermott omits is that SAP cloud revenue is originated from the acquired products and that S/4HANA cloud has minimal revenue and is “private cloud,” meaning “hosting,”

  • Airbus DS Optronics S/4HANA Case Study

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … The objective was also prevent discrepancies between forecast and current data, and to establish more efficient finance and management accounting processes.”
    Replacing the Data Warehouse and Performing All Reporting Off of the ERP System?
    This is part of the marketing appeal of S/4HANA that all reporting would occur in ERP and would not have to have data pushed to BW (or other data warehouses). However, the issue with this is that we are not seeing reporting migrating away from BW. Perhaps a bit too in depth for a case study evaluation like this, but the ERP system does not …

  • Snow Peak S/4HANA Case Study

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … The knowledge that our staff members have accumulated has been made visible and can be shared” – Tohru Yamai, President – Snow Peak.

    Snow Peak moved off of a Microsoft ERP system.
    SAP Marketing’s Hand
    At least 1/2 of the case study write-up by SAP is either bragging about Snow Peak or about SAP that doesn’t have anything to do with the case study. One good example is this:
    “To achieve the necessary centralization and unification of data, the software had to have comprehensive, integrated ERP functionality that covers all aspects of the business.”
    So a few …

  • How to Use the S/4HANA Implementation Study (Complete) (2017)

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … vast majority of information on the Internet on SAP is provided by SAP, which is filled with false claims and sleazy consulting companies and SAP consultants who will tell any lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    Getting Clear on the Terminology
    S/4HANA is SAP’s new ERP system, meant to replace SAP ECC, the renamed R/3 ERP application. S/4HANA combined many SAP initiatives into one application. These initiatives

  • What is the Accuracy of CONSILIO IT on MRP on HANA Performance?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … in economic turbulent times. Innovative MRP solutions based on the real-time platform SAP HANA convince with an unparalleled performance gain.”
    This description starts off using deception. MRP processing is not an issue at companies unless they have misconfigured their ERP system. Also, there is no evidence that current times are more turbulent than previous economic times.
    Finally, the real-time nature of HANA is not proven. HANA performs worse than Oracle 12c in analytics and has no track record of delivering well in processing or transaction processing, which is why SAP publishes no benchmark for transactions, while it …