Executive Summary Forrester publishes some highly fluffy material designed to attract customers. We review some of this fluff and question what it means for how Forrester performs research. Video Introduction: Forrester’s NonStop Fluff Makes One Question Their Research Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) We found Forrester’s website both beautiful in its design…
Access the Reality on Oracle You have found the most comprehensive and realistic information available about Oracle. This research is critical competitive intelligence that will help you in your campaign against Oracle. This study includes the following: Why Oracle’s database is seeing so little adoption in its most recent versions. What is currently happening to…
Executive Summary SAP previously stated that it would not support ECC beyond 2025. SAP is telling its customers that support beyond 2025 can be obtained by paying a support premium. We analyze what SAP is doing and what it means for customers. Video Introduction: Why SAP Will Charge a Premium for 2025 ECC Support Text…
Executive Summary We decided to compare the statistics for our website versus the other entities in the space. Find out how much we stacked up. Introduction This article takes the best-known entities in the space that cover the same area as Brightwork Research & Analysis. Developing the Method of Comparison Between the Websites There are…
Executive Summary IBM has become a significant provider of false information around AI. Central to IBM’s AI sales strategy is to distract attention from its colossal Watson failure. Video Introduction: How IBM is Distracting from the Watson Failure to Sell More AI Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) For over a decade, Watson…
The Reality of the Competition SAP has made an enormous marketing and sales push around S/4HANA. They have not only the major IT analysts like Gartner and Forrester in their pocket, but they also have a multi-million person consulting ecosystem that is trying to convince customers to upgrade from ECC to S/4HANA or to switch…
Expose the Reality on S/4HANA You have found the only realistic information available about S/4HANA. This research is critical intelligence that will help you in your procurement decision around S/4HANA. This study includes the following: The background on S/4HANA implementation history. Evaluation of 230 S/4HANA implementation case studies classified by customer size and fit to…
Executive Summary Consultants with no research background often assume that they can accuse an entity of bias if they don’t provide a sufficient amount of positive coverage. We analyze the validity of this claim. Introduction We sometimes have surreal interactions on LinkedIn, where various pro-vendor individuals make unsupported claims. Our References for This Article If…
Executive Summary Revlon failed at a S/4HANA implementation back in Feb of 2017, and this failure came to light in a quarterly call in March of 2019. We cover this failed S/4HANA case study. Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) We have been warning people about S/4HANA’s implementation problems since early 2017. We covered this…
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…