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… financial bias to their readers. 

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“For Oracle, another earnings call has come and gone, and to a large degree it’s the same old story. As the company continues its cloud computing push against software competitors like Salesforce (CRM, +1.09%) and infrastructure giants like Amazon (AMZN, +0.22%) Web Services, it’s still the database that matters most.
With a healthy customer base using its accounting software (known as enterprise resource planning or ERP in industry-speak) and human resources tools, Oracle (ORCL, +0.25%) still milks its cash-cow, a relational database that most of the

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

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Like the other things we have discussed, this is not straightforward. You might think that S/4 HANA is simply the replacement for Business Suite: that it is SAP’s new ERP suite, but it is not that simple. This is because some of the applications that were previously in Business Suite are now only available as SaaS (software as a service) solutions running in the cloud. For example, SAP SuccessFactors is a human resources application, while SAP Concur is a …

… database, but it is also the brand name for SAP’s latest enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications (S/4 HANA Enterprise Management) and the company’s cloud-based applications. This has enabled SAP to make marketing claims about “HANA” which we would argue have been misleading. We, therefore, deplore this deliberate blurring of the lines between what HANA is as a product and what it is as a brand.”
Brightwork has pointed this out multiple times, one example being How to Deflect That You Were Wrong About HANA. Another is the article Was the HANA Cloud Platform Designed for …