Executive Summary John Appleby made bold predictions on HANA. We review how Chris Eaton severely beat him in a debate on HANA. Introduction John Appleby’s article on the SAP HANA blog was titled What In-Memory Database for SAP BW? A Comparison of the Major Vendors and was published on Nov 13, 2013. In this article’s…
Executive Summary Dan Matthews, the CTO of IFS, wrote an article about memory. We review how accurate he was in his article. Introduction Dan Matthews’s paper 3 Things Business Decision Makers Need to Know About In Memory Enterprise Software was published in May 2017. Our References for This Article If you want to see our…
Executive Summary SAP developed a new benchmark to make HANA look good. We cover the problems with creating a benchmark for BW. Introduction After SAP HANA was released in 2011, SAP created the BW-EML benchmark (renamed the BWAML) and the BWH benchmark. Both of these benchmarks were for SAP’s BW application. SAP published no HANA…
Executive Summary ERP systems were introduced with great promises and fanfare, pushed by financially incentivized entities. Now decades after, the research shows few benefits to ERP, but high costs. And customers are trapped in their ERP. Introduction ERP systems were aggressively marketed as fixing nearly all the ills that companies faced. In our book The…
Executive Summary ERP centric strategy is a serious medical condition. Learn about ECS and how it negatively impacts IT decision-making. Introduction This was going to be a very different article than the ty’pe I ordinarily write. Today I want to talk about a serious topic. You see, there is a silent disease-oriented around enterprise software…
Executive Summary SAP states that they have advanced predictive analytics for machine learning. In this article, we review the predictive analytics that SAP offers. Video Introduction: How to Understand SAP’s Strange Predictive Analytics for ML Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) Before HANA and machine learning, SAP used to market something called predictive…
Executive Summary We migrated our application Brightwork Explorer to AWS. We described our experiences with AWS and what it means for future application migrations. Introduction Brightwork Research & Analysis recently engaged in a development effort to create an application that could help companies monetize forecast error (rather than using the typical forecast error measurements) and…
Executive Summary Cloud is vital to many areas of IT and can bring significant productivity improvements. We cover some of the important developments in this field. Introduction Web services are segmented into SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. In this article, we will cover their history and where they are headed. Our References for This Article If…
Executive Summary Two-tiered ERP is a specific way of managing multiple ERP systems. This serves to explain how to apply two tier ERP in real terms. Introduction The basic proposal that two-tiered ERP reduces costs can be true. According to our research, the cost savings based on total costs of ownership (TCO) can range from…
Executive Summary Why are SAP’s new acquisitions forecasted without analyzing how SAP’s previous acquisitions fared? Find out how well SAP tends to do with acquisitions. Introduction SAP makes a large number of acquisitions of software vendors. SAP acquisitions follow a very familiar path. We call this the “acquisition algorithm,” which usually means that software vendors…