A Expanding Section: Media Coverage of S/4HANA Posted on May 29, 2019 Other sources such as Forbes or Diginomica are both funded by SAP and will publish uncritically any case study that is communicated to them. Recent articles on S/4HANA adoption tend to reference one of these fallacious estimates and declare something like.. “adoption of…
A Expanding Section: The Case Study Problem Posted on May 29, 2019 SAP has published a number of case studies for S/4HANA that show it as live. However, in a study funded by SAP and published by Forrester, SAP was only able to come up with three customers for Forrester to use in the study….
A Expanding Section: What Is Going on with S/4HANA Failures? Posted on May 29, 2019 It is our conclusion that there are a large number of S/4HANA implementations that have failed and are being kept quiet. Customers may classify the projects as “postponed” but they are failures. It would be difficult to evaluate every ERP…
A Expanding Section: The Implication of Implementing S/4HANA Posted by Shaun Snapp on May 28, 2019 As S/4HANA uses a different database schema from ECC, S/4HANA is the first ERP system that will break all integrations and customizations that customers added to ECC. SAP has released information on these topics that indicates it prefers to…
A Expanding Section: Technical Background Information on S/4HANA Posted by Shaun Snapp on May 28, 2019 S/4HANA is SAP’s new ERP system, meant to replace SAP ECC, which is the renamed R/3 ERP application. S/4HANA combined many SAP initiatives into one application. These initiatives include the following: What is S/4HANA Technically? Although never presented in…
Executive Summary SAP has proposed 3500 go-lives for S/4HANA. What SAP says is usually repeated by those that cover SAP. What is the reality of the S/4HANA go-lives in 2019? Introduction We have been tracking S/4HANA numbers for roughly three years. We covered this of live S/4HANA customers in 2017 in The S/4HANA Implementation Study, and…
Executive Summary SAP makes bold statements about application integration that assumes SAP’s integration competence. We review SAP’s history with integration. Video Introduction: The Long Term Problems with SAP and Integration Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) In its history, SAP has not been successful in creating integration applications. SAP integration is generally difficult….
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Executive Summary ASUG provides consistently false information about indirect access. We cover why it is so problematic for so much false information to come from an entity pretending to be a user group. Introduction For some time, I have questioned ASUG’s independence from SAP. And this questioning was reinforced through checking with several others who…
Executive Summary At SAPPHIRE 2019, Hasso Plattner makes claims around academic publications supporting HANA. We evaluate the accuracy of these claims by fact-checking the publications. Introduction This is the video of Hasso Plattner; we will be reviewing it for accuracy. Our References for This Article If you want to see our references for this article…