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  • Brightwork Licensed Research

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    … by a customer.
    What You Get With Research Licenced Research Content
    These are the following items that are part of what you can expect from the research.
    Item #1: The Type of Research
    We provide In-depth research that is typically not available from other firms that produce similar work (Gartner, Forrester, etc..). These firms receive enormous sums of money from the mega-vendors and are unwilling to cover areas that critique or otherwise challenge their funders. As a result, research by the established entities is censored. Brightwork has an established history of both questioning the status quo and being …

  • Why Custom Development Should Be Expected for Nearly All Applications

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    Executive Summary

    Package vendors and consulting companies overstate the degree to which package software can meet requirements.
    We cover an assumption of the percentage of requirements that are covered by package software.

    Introduction
    Vendors and consulting companies present a false assumption. This assumption is that package software meets most to nearly all of the business requirements. This is part of the sales process and is an assumption that tends to be unquestioned by customers. IT analysts like Gartner and Forrester never question this assumption, as vendors pay them.
    How it Works
    If you look at vendors, they will typically say …

  • How Accurate Was SAP in Projecting Qualtrics as a Strategic Acquisition?

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    … happened to be successful; otherwise, as with other analysts, they will never bring up the topic again. That is how the analysts work, they make projections, where they never go back and hold themselves accountable or record their predictive accuracy. I have found this repeatedly in researching analyst writings. Did Gartner go back and measure their accuracy for what they wrote on IBM Watson as we covered in the article How Gartner Got IBM Watson so Wrong? Of course not. IT analysts follow no scientific approach, and this means zero measurements of previous projections.
    Denis Howlett of Diginomica did barely …

  • When to Use Lean or Reorder Point Planning Versus MRP

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    … Therefore, Lean and the high variability of demand self-generated within companies by Sales and Marketing are a poor fit for Lean – something I have never heard brought up. Of course, product proliferation is only one of the negative externalities caused by Sales and Marketing – another is promotions.
    Promotions
    In many companies, Sales and Marketing increasingly view promotions as a major part of the overall strategy. Promotions have significantly increased in their frequency. According to Gartner, roughly 20 percent of manufacturers’ revenue is spent on promotions, up from 0.5 percent in 1985.2 This is one of the largest

  • Does SAP IBP Replace APO?

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    … Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    Our Research Orientation
    As one of the virtually only independent entities that cover SAP or SAP APO, and unlike Gartner or Forrester as one that takes no money from any vendor, we are in a unique position to address this topic with far higher accuracy than the traditional article on IBP which is either designed to sell IBP license or IBP consulting services. So we are in an excellent …

  • Why SAP IBP?

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    … Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    Our Research Orientation
    As one of the virtually only independent entities that cover SAP or SAP APO, and unlike Gartner or Forrester as one that takes no money from any vendor, we are in a unique position to address this topic with far higher accuracy than the traditional article on IBP which is either designed to sell IBP license or IBP consulting services. So we are in an excellent …

  • Is SAP IBP Good?

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    … Internet. In reading through IBP articles that were rated highly in Google, it was shocking to read the articles’ low quality. Many of them contained erroneous information not only about APO and IBP but about planning in general. Neither IBM nor Deloitte nor Infosys, nor any other SAP consulting firm cares about the answer to the question of is SAP IBP good; they want to sell some IBP consulting hours to you.
    As one of the virtually only independent entities that cover SAP or SAP APO, and unlike Gartner or Forrester as one that takes no money from any …

  • Introduction to LaunchPad SAP HANA Support

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    … of the databases track by Brightwork Research & Analysis, HANA is rated the highest in maintenance. This maintenance has caught most customers that have HANA off guard. Brightwork Research & Analysis has been the most accurate source of information on HANA while all of the SAP consulting firms and IT analysts like Gartner simply repeated SAP’s marketing material (as we cover in the article How Gartner Got HANA So Wrong, as just one example).

    We covered how S/4HANA did not have a simplified data model in the article Does S/4HANA Have a Simplified Data Model? We still have the …

  • What To Do About the Extreme Monopoly Implications of Hyperscale Public Cloud Providers

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    … steadily losing market share to hyperscale providers. So much so that as we cover in the article How Gartner and IDC Help Vendors Co-Opt Things, They Are Unrelated To, even huge companies like Equinix have found it necessary to change the narrative. They have turned to IT analysts like Gartner and IDC and paid them most likely a substantial fee to discourage companies from viewing Equinix’s “nonpublic cloud” offering as relevant and as valuable as the public cloud. As we cover in the article, Equinix’s arguments, repeated through Gartner and IDC, make little sense.
    The Role of …

  • Why Most IT Workers Lack Business Knowledge or Critical Thinking

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    … Hundreds of Thousands of Employee IT Consulting Firms
    All of the major consulting companies and vendors agree that they want mindless robots to implement their software without thinking about the project.
    So, this is what we have.
    It is a top-down system where what is “right” is determined at some vendor headquarters and then pushed out to consulting firms. There is no evidence presented in this system. The system works like a Swiss watch to promote projects with very high failure rates.
    Gartner is paid to agree that A is true, then A gets “hot,” and then everyone starts