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  • How to Deflect That You Were Wrong About HANA

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … of green cheese.
    This is presently a big problem in IT and IT forecasting. I like to say that the only thing anyone is held accountable for regarding prediction is meeting their sales quota. Gartner has quite a poor accuracy level in their forecasts.

    They were responsible for priming the ERP bubble in the eighties.
    The marketplace bubble in the late nineties.
    They are currently pumping up the Big Data and analytics bubble as well as the IoT bubble.

    But do you see Gartner paying a financial penalty for being the Helen Keller of IT forecasting? No, they are richer …

  • Good Luck Getting Unbiased SAP Advice from Big Consulting Firms

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … of the enterprise software market. However, several decades ago, SAP made a crucial decision. They decided to let the large oligopolistic consulting firms take most of the consulting work. This resulted in consulting firms recommending SAP with a very high frequency. Years later, Oracle then copied this practice for its ERP application. There are now extensive SAP and Oracle practices within most of the major consulting companies and many smaller consulting firms.
    How it Works
    Large consulting firms perform various functions for clients concerning enterprise software, but two of the major ones are making recommendations on what software to buy …

  • What is the Actual Performance of SAP HANA?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … bias. That is people that have an incentive to prefer a particular software vendor. One entity that has published inaccurate information about benchmarks that have been right in line with their financial bias has been the consulting firm Bluefin, which is one of the least reliable providers of information on HANA.
    The Benchmark Tests
    The following benchmarks were reviewed that were performed for these databases.

    SAP OLTP Benchmark: This is a benchmark for transaction processing. Things that ERP systems tend to do the most are recording journal entries, decrementing inventory when performing a goods issue, etc..
    SAP BW-EML (Business

  • Why SAP S/4HANA Should be Free

    ByPrimary Researcher

     Executive Summary

    With S/4HANA, SAP has changed the policy of ERP database independence.
    There are significant problems with SAP charging for an upgrade like S/4HANA, including that it is a forced purchase, undermines the support contract, and locks customers into a database with indirect access liabilities.

    Introduction
    The marketing blast on S/4HANA has been so hot and heavy over the past several years that it has been easy to forget some crucial details.
    Well, I have had the time to think through what SAP has been doing with S/4 based upon a few research projects …

  • What is the Real Story with SAP's Run Simple?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Hana-powered ERP applications that use the Hana in-memory computing platform and other technologies to slim down the code base and make the user interface more appealing and productive.
    Hana is attached to everything we have, McDermott said in a recent interview.”
    Bill McDermott is an unreliable source of information on SAP. He is a lifelong salesman with a yearly compensation of $50 million. Previous statements made by Bill McDermott have mostly proven to be untrue. Once again, he is proven wrong when he says HANA is attached to everything SAP does. Six years after its introduction, it …

  • How SAP is Acquiring Itself into the Cloud

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … of the tech bubble.

    The marketplace investment was a write-off. This was a waste of time and resources.
    SAP’s investments in advanced planning have been in many ways successful. SAP owns a substantial portion of the overall advanced planning software market. A lot of functionality in SAP’s ERP system is supply chain related. Advanced planning is just an extension of this. On the other hand, SAP has spent a lot of development money on some advanced planning modules but has not penetrated much beyond demand, supply, and production planning. The interest in some their planning modules outside …

  • The Secret to Marketing Against SAP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … of us can scratch the reach of an entity like ComputerWeekly or Forbes.
    Keep Modest at All Costs, Show your Application as “Complimentary”
    To be attractive to prospects, the best of breed vendors tend to downplay (to clients) the degree to which their applications can replace the functionality within the ERP systems.
    This means that companies often get inadequate information about where specialized applications should be used versus where ERP functionality should be applied. These best of breed vendors prominently display logos on their websites that show they are compatible or have adapters with the significant ERP based software vendors …

  • How Accurate is the Messaging on the SAP S/4HANA On Premises Roadmap?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … material that will find its way to SAP’s website or the conference circuit.
    So with that background, let us get on with the analysis of the SAP S/4HANA slides.
    S/4HANA Slide Analysis
    SAP R/3 has been renamed over the years to ECC and then to SAP ERP (which never took) and then to Business All in One.

    None of these names meant anything regarding referring to something new in the application; they were marketing terminological changes.
    R/3 has stabilized some years ago, which means that it has seen little functionality enhancement since that time, with …

  • Getting Clear on SAP S/4HANA Simple Finance & Simple Logistics

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … since this S/4AHANA was first introduced. SAP claims that S/4HANA has been the fastest-growing application in history but then backtracks on Wall Street calls and states that it’s still “early days” for S/4HANA. You will learn why SAP’s naming and strategy with its new ERP system is a constantly moving target.
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    Notice of Lack of Financial Bias: We have no financial ties to SAP or any other entity mentioned in this …

  • How Gartner Got SAP Fiori So Wrong

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Gartner’s credibility. Oracle Cloud ERP lacks functionality that is mostly implemented alongside on-premises Oracle ERP, as explained by Rimini Street. 
    “If there is functionality coverage in Cloud ERP, some new features may be available. This is a big if, as there are huge gaps still present in Cloud ERP applications. Precisely the reason Oracle promotes the Cloud ERP co-existence strategy.”
    Yet, somehow this widely lampooned system is the best cloud ERP on the planet. Right. Oracle has been desperate to get attention for their lagging ERP and shoveled so much money at Gartner that they bought the …