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IT Terms and Concepts

How SAP Used and Abused the Term Legacy
ByPrimary Researcher April 2, 2017March 25, 2021

… themselves and those systems’ philosophical underpinnings.” – Wikipedia
Legacy Equals “To Be Replaced by SAP”
And in fact, many of the systems designated as a legacy by SAP were never replaced by SAP. This was one of the frequent disappointments on the part of companies that purchased SAP, particularly SAP’s ERP system, which often bought SAP ERP, and other ERP systems to obtain a simplified system landscape and drive down costs.
However, the proposition was never particularly accurate as SAP ERP never maintained the breadth of functionality necessary to decommission so many legacy systems. And the concept of best practices …

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The Problem with the Term Digital Transformation
ByPrimary Researcher April 1, 2017May 11, 2022

… or is true multitenant cloud delivery in each case, it is the same amount of digital.
If we look back at the transition from manual computation to using mainframes back in the 1970s, wouldn’t that stage of computer history be more digitally transformative than moving to a slightly faster ERP system or implementing a new CRM system?
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ASUG | SAP S/4HANA False Claims

How to Best Understand ASUG's SAP S/4HANA Adoption Survey
ByPrimary Researcher March 30, 2017March 7, 2021

… any information that would cast S/4HANA in anything but a flattering light.
Having covered that, let us jump into what I found to be essential or interesting quotes from the ASUG survey.
Quotes from the SAP HANA Adoption Survey

“Available in a variety of deployment options—on-premise, managed cloud and public cloud— S/4HANA is the replacement for SAP’s on premise SAP Business Suite, being re-architected to take full advantage of HANA. So, for all SAP ECC 6.0 customers and those on earlier versions of SAP ERP, S/4HANA is their future destination.”

So this

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SAP Indirect Access

ASUG's Biased and Inaccurate Coverage of SAP Indirect Access
ByPrimary Researcher March 19, 2017April 20, 2022

… just confused.” – ASUG
A significant reason customers are confused is that SAP’s proposals on indirect access to their indirect access definition are an expansion of indirect access, and other vendors do not share this definition.
Joe: Regarding the U.K. ruling, it’s important to note that the mySAP ERP contract was signed in 2004. At that point the understanding of SaaS-based applications and what the potential implications would be of integrating them into the SAP ERP ecosystem was not necessarily a primary factor in the acquisition. Of course, so much has changed based on the business value …

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License Pricing

How to Understand the Pricing of S/4HANA and HANA
ByPrimary Researcher March 18, 2017December 29, 2023

… HANA is critical to understanding how SAP prices these products.

SAP’s strategy is to use its dominant ERP system to dictate the database used to run this ERP system.
The Importance of Database Sizing in HANA Pricing
To keep this article to a reasonable length, we moved this important topic to its article at The Importance of Database Sizing in Pricing SAP HANA.

After HANA is Sold: SAP’s Next Steps for Follow on Sales
Furthermore, it is clear that HANA is just the first step for SAP sales to penetrate the database layer. The opening salvo was …

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SAP Indirect Access

How ASUG Lies About SAP Indirect Access
ByPrimary Researcher March 6, 2017April 20, 2022

… login. Digital transformation is the biggest place where you may find this, where you have CRM systems, e-commerce systems or IoT applications that are not SAP systems either feeding information into or taking information out of SAP. Customers may, or may not, have this type of access appropriately licensed. This is where the ambiguity begins, and where ASUG members are the most concerned.” – ASUG
This definition would include every single application that has ever been integrated into an SAP system, according to Panaya.
“40 percent of SAP shops have 20 to 50 systems interfacing wit their ERP. Of these

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SAP - Outside Advice on HANA and S/4HANA

The Propaganda in IT Award: The Award Goes to NTT Data on HANA
ByPrimary Researcher March 6, 2017October 22, 2023

… about being the fastest growing product in SAP history is improbable to be true. HANA has been a modestly selling database and still has a modest market share.
HANA has been a modestly selling database and still has a modest market share.
“Many core enterprise systems today — think of the ERP boom in the ’90 — are flirting with overdue replacement cycles and/or upgrades, extensive and expensive customizations, rising maintenance costs and, most critically, a lack of flexibility needed to meet today’s changing business demands.”
All of this may be true in parts. However, the overall sentence is highly …

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SAP Litigation 2

How The University of Chicago and Harvard Write In Defense of Tying Arrangements
ByPrimary Researcher March 1, 2017April 21, 2023

… Review
Suppose we take the example of the indirect access fees charged by SAP for SAP ERP licenses to companies that do not purchase complimentary SAP products and instead go with a non-SAP application. In this case, the customer can easily be redirected towards the purchase of SAP (non-ERP) applications. This will allow the customer not to pay for both a non-SAP license for non-ERP software plus the ERP licenses. This is because SAP will waive the ERP licenses cost if the SAP non-ERP applications are purchased.
The result is that the customer buys from …

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Is SAP S/4 HANA a New Application Architecture?
ByPrimary Researcher February 26, 2017May 8, 2022

… used by an organization to create the composite architecture is scalable, reliable, available and manageable.”
Interpretation
I don’t think Hasso’s claim here holds true. He may propose that HANA creates more scalability — although that could be easily debated. I see no reason why HANA makes S/4HANA or ERP functionality more reliable, available, or manageable. SAP ECC is already quite reliable; it is available. It’s hard to maintain, but that is only in a small way related to its database. Much more of the difficulty in maintaining ECC has to do with its user interface, learning curve …

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SAP S/4HANA and Cloud

Is S/4HANA Actually Designed for the Cloud?
ByPrimary Researcher February 25, 2017May 19, 2021

… by SAP S/4HANA is somehow explicitly designed for the cloud. There has been a great motivation for SAP to commingle both HANA and S/4HANA with the cloud to perform cloud washing. However, there are not only many issues with S/4HANA in the cloud, but issues with other ERP systems in the cloud as ERP systems have a much more complicated set of functionality than traditional cloud applications like CRM of invoicing. You will learn how accurate SAP is concerning S/4HANA and HANA in the cloud.
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