A Expansion Section: Published Studies on S/4HANA Implementations Posted on May 29, 2019 The 350 number is from ASUG and their 2016 survey which was critiqued by Brightwork in an article entitled Analysis of ASUG’s SAP HANA Adoption Survey. This survey was published a year ago, from the publication of this research paper you are…
A Expanding Section: SAP’s Claims Around S/4HANA Posted on May 29, 2019 Frequently the claim will use a statistic regarding the success of an application. SAP will often have the word “number of customers” that it has. SAP has also taken this approach this with HANA and S/4HANA. SAP has announced roughly 500 new “customers”…
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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