Executive Summary SAP provides information on APO; however, how accurate was this information? What is APO’s ROI and its history with constraint planning? Introduction SAP has a page on their website which explains and markets SAP APO. We review this page for accuracy. Our References for This Article If you want to see our references…
Executive Summary G2Crowd promised a new way to review software. However, G2Crowd has major disclosure issues that we cover. Introduction Recently, during an interaction on LinkedIn where the head of CrowdReviews brought up Gartner’s bias in being a pay-to-play system. During that interaction, the topic of G2Crowd came up, which is another applications ranking entity…
Executive Summary Gartner has an abysmal history of technology prediction. Part of the reason for this accuracy is not Gartner’s primary concern. Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) In their reports, Gartner will sometimes make technology projections or try to describe the technology. At Brightwork Research & Analysis, we have analyzed these projections and…
Executive Summary The Gartner Magic Quadrant reduces software selection efficiency through the deceptive way they are created. Gartner promotes large vendors over small vendors, as large vendors have the most to pay Gartner. The problem with the broadness of the Gartner Magic Quadrant and how they promote software acquisitions. Introduction The Gartner Magic Quadrant is…
Executive Summary John Appleby of Bluefin Solutions has been a provider of inaccurate information around HANA. Questions surround many of Appleby’s claims around HANA, including that SAP has no future on HANA, how HANA will enable a new class of applications and whether HANA will somehow connect uniquely SAP Cloud Platform. Video Introduction: Analysis of…
Executive Summary We cover the risk model we use to assign risk to applications. This risk model is made up of components that are combined to create an overall score. Introduction To manage risk, it is important to define the most important components of risk that an enterprise software implementation is likely to face and…
Executive Summary The basics of IT risk management are routinely ignored on projects. We cover what they are and how they can be followed. Introduction To understand how to manage IT project risks, we must first level set on what we mean by risk. First, there are many different degrees of success or failure on…
Executive Summary There is basic parts selection logic of the availability maximizer, which includes the cost of the part. Service parts management must be able to deal with zero demand situations. Introduction This approach and program were written expressly for a low demand environment at the dealer level. Most independent demand inventory algorithms ( EOQ,…
Executive Summary Selling Opinions The Shock Doctrine Professor Friedman felt both that corporations had no business spending money for social good, and that business should not be regulated because all regulation would eventually be captured by business interests. What type of world would this result in we wonder? Introduction Of the posts on this blog,…
Executive Summary CRM systems are presented as a “hot” software category. There are excellent questions as to the ROI of CRM systems. Introduction CRM is “hot” right now as a software category even though, in my estimation CRM in most cases, has a negative ROI. I cover this at Brightwork’s software category page on CRM….