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  • The Effect of the Cloud on Software Selection

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … that I routinely find excellent applications that have minimal market share. And conversely, why I regularly find poor quality applications that sell very well.

    ERP Centric Strategy?
    One of the most important events that reduced the enterprise software market’s efficiency was the introduction of ERP systems in the 1980s.
    ERP vendors used the ERP systems to steer purchases to applications that in a freely competitive arena would have never been purchased, and it has set back enterprise software decisions ever since. And while it did this, it established a faulty thought pattern in enterprise software decision makers — and ERP …

  • Why SAP Will Have to Backtrack on S/4 on HANA Database

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    … producing benchmarks for critical processing types — like transaction process, which is mostly what an ERP system does. But we can guess based on the design and other benchmarks. SAP has no reason, aside from a monopoly action, to push other database vendors out of its clients, to not certify Oracle. And other database vendors to be “HANA database only.”
    Do the HANA Database Arguments Make Sense?
    As I pointed out in the article Getting Clear on SAP S/4 HANA Terminology, many of HANA’s arguments don’t make any sense.

    This is not to say that in some …

  • How to Grade Your Production Scheduling System

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    … be graded.
    Is ERP + a Spreadsheet Your Production Scheduling Software?
    In this previous article titled Why Do Companies Continue to Use ERP/MRP Systems for Production Scheduling?, I explained the reason so many companies score poorly in their production scheduling is due to the fact they use a combination of ERP and spreadsheets as their “system.” This is a significant error in understanding what production scheduling requires (in most instances)
    That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen!
    It turns out that companies often start off thinking they can use ERP systems because of the combined fact that they were initially told …

  • Analysis of Steve Lucas' Article on What Oracle Won't Tell You About HANA

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    … hanging around their neck.”
    I could make and have made the same argument regarding SAP! SAP is not an innovative software vendor but poses as one. I have proposed that SAP reduces innovation in the enterprise software market in the article How SAP Reduces Innovation.
    Billions of Dollars of Revenue to Protect
    Likewise, SAP has billions of dollars’ worth of reasons to protect its ERP and other application business by raising as many barriers as possible. By paying off IT media sources by giving their implementation business to unethical consulting companies like Deloitte, Accenture, and IBM. These then recommend …

  • How to Get Clear on S/4 HANA Terminology

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    … rely on SAP for advertising revenues. We will explain what SAP has said about Simple Logistics, the reason for the naming of S/4HANA, and other areas of SAP’s messaging. You will learn what appears to be a moving target in SAP’s naming and strategy with its new ERP system.
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    Notice of Lack of Financial Bias: We have no financial ties to SAP or any other entity mentioned in this article.

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  • How to Use the Solution Architecture TCO Calculations

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    … in the TCO section. This solution architecture document is suitable for performing comparative analysis. This analysis type is rarely performed, so IT buyers never wholly understand their solution architecture costs.

    Solution Architecture Packages
    The following links show the calculations of the solution architecture packages giving a comprehensive appraisal of moving to a particular architecture.

    Architecture Comparison Solution Architecture Link

    Oracle with Two Teired SAP Two Tiered ERP

    SAP with Two Tiered Oracle Two Tiered ERP

    100% Oracle 100% SAP Versus 100% Best of Breed

    100% SAP 100% Oracle Versus 100% Best of Breed

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    How Much Do You Know

  • How to Understand the Brightwork Software Category Analyses

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    … explanation of the history of the software category.
    How the category is related to other enterprise software categories.
    Major trends in each category.

    Software Category Analysis
    All of the analysis by software category.

    Software Category Link

    CRM CRM Category Analysis

    BI Light BI Light Category Analysis

    BI Heavy BI Heavy Category Analysis

    Product Planning and Scheduling Production Planning Category Analysis

    Supply Planning Supply Planning Category Analysis

    Demand Planning Demand Planning Category Analysis

    PLM PLM Category Analysis

    Category Analysis Financial Application Category Analysis

    Small and Medium ERP Small and Medium ERP Category Analysis

    Big ERP Big ERP Category Analysis

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  • How to Use the Brightwork Implementation Risk Ratings

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    … Forecasting)

    JDA MUFI Rating & Risk – JDA Demand Management

    Demand Works MUFI Rating & Risk – Demand Works Smoothie

    Business Forecast Systems MUFI Rating & Risk – Forecast Pro TRAK

    Tableau MUFI Rating & Risk – Tableau (Forecasting)

    SAP MUFI Rating & Risk – SAP APO DP

    PLM

    Hamilton Grant MUFI Rating & Risk – Hamilton Grant Recipe Management

    Arena Solutions MUFI Rating & Risk – Arena Solutions Arena PLM

    SAP MUFI Rating & Risk – SAP PLM

    Financial Applications

    NetSuite MUFI Rating & Risk – NetSuite OneWorld

    FinancialForce MUFI Rating & Risk – FinancialForce

    Intuit MUFI Rating & Risk – Intuit Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions

    Intacct MUFI Rating & Risk – Intacct

    Small and Medium ERP

    Microsoft MUFI Rating & Risk – Microsoft Dynamics AX

  • How to Use the Brightwork Honest Vendor Ratings

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    … selling larger applications.
    Buying An Application….Just Because You Happen to be Buying Another Application from a Vendor
    One of the biggest problems in IT procurement is the acquisition of uncompetitive applications through this bundling process. Large vendors usually only have a few competitive applications and databases to offer — but their business model is built around stuffing accounts with uncompetitive applications and databases. Many of these applications and databases could not survive in a competitive market. The concept of “one-stop shopping” is based upon software ignorance. No vendor makes the best ERP system, and the best analytics application, and

  • Which is Faster HANA or Oracle 12C?

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    … This article was originally written in April of 2016, and it refers to some articles by SAP earlier than this. However, the article has been updated as of February 2020, and it is applicable several years later. 
    The History of HANA
    SAP has promoted HANA and has run far faster than any alternative database, which means HANA vs. Oracle.
    This has been the logic used for why SAP would not port new applications, like S/4 (SAP’s new ERP system), to Oracle. (as Oracle has the largest market share of supporting SAP applications, although SAP also is targeting …