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  • How to Slim and Re-platforming the Data Warehouse with AWS Glue and Anthem

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … projects.

    Snowflake obtained a peculiarly high score on Gartner’s ODMS Magic Quadrant. For a vendor that is rated at 119th in overall popularity, it seemed odd. That is until we found how much capital Snowflake had raised (and therefore, it is budget for promotion). Yet if you look at the items it lists on its webpage (Instant Elasticity, Secure Data Sharing, Per Second Pricing, and Multiple Clouds), those are all capabilities already inherent to both AWS and Google Cloud. The market will determine if there is enough value add with Snowflake over the inherent data warehousing capabilities in …

  • How to Understand Heroku and PaaS Systems

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    … PaaS requires a deep understanding of the development requirements, and one of the issues with selecting a PaaS is that they usually have specific advantages for some programming languages versus others. For instance, Heroku started as a project for the Ruby language, but then added other languages later. In 2012 Gartner predicted that the PaaS market would become 2% of the overall revenues for the cloud market. The PaaS market seems quite “siloed,” and while IaaS has grown enormously and grabbed the headlines, the PaaS market appears to have stagnated.
    Our interpretation is that AWS would rather farm that work …

  • How to Understand Where Cloud is Going in the Future

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … IaaS revenues. We include this graphic from IDC, but the estimates from different firms on this topic are all over the place. Vendors are cloud washing like crazy, so anyone performing this analysis needs to adjust for that factor, or the numbers won’t be accurate.
    The Cloud Revenue Estimates
    Gartner proposes the following numbers for 2017 (in millions).

    Cloud Business Process Services (BPaaS) $40,812
    Cloud Application Infrastructure Services (Pass) $7,169
    Cloud Application Services (SaaS) $38,567
    Cloud Management and Security Services $7,150
    Cloud System Infrastructure Services (IaaS) $25,290
    Cloud Advertising $90,257
    Total Market $209 …

  • How to Understand the Problems with Oracle Cloud

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Gartner has sung a different tune regarding Oracle Cloud.
    “These announcements are more cloud announcements than database announcements,” Gartner analyst Adam Ronthal told Techrunch. “They are Oracle coming out to the world with products that are built and architected for cloud and everything that implies — scalability, elasticity and a low operational footprint. Make no mistake, Oracle still has to prove themselves in the cloud. They are behind AWS and Azure and even GCP in breadth and scope of offerings. ATP [Oracle’s Autonomous Transaction Processing] helps close that gap, at least in the data management space.”
    This quote from Gartner

  • How to Understand SAP and Oracle Versus AWS and Google Cloud Pricing

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … and why they choose cloud services at all. I will expand on this a bit but simply put, AWS is simply cheaper, simpler and more reliable than any other way most users can get the same amount of computing.
    Cheaper, simpler and more reliable works for almost everyone. The current Gartner Magic Quadrant report shows AWS with one of the largest leads that I have ever seen in that series. The No. 2 in the report MSFT is said to have almost the same completeness of vision but far less executing competence.”
    AWS describes its pricing this way:
    “AWS offers …

  • How to Perform Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Database Migration

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … VM/container copy become the production instance.

    Moving Away from the Oracle Database
    When moving away from Oracle databases, performing a “heterogeneous” conversion is necessary, which is more complicated. A database like PostgreSQL usually does an excellent job of managing the same workloads as Oracle 11, 12, or 18. There are pretty good open-source databases for any Oracle database version that can do virtually anything Oracle can do. Moreover, they can do it with far less overhead.
    This is covered in the following quotation from Gartner.
    “Today, there are about 300 database options available, including open-source and cloud

  • How to Understand What is Two Tiered ERP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … system to manage across the organization. This company uses independent global or regional distribution, production or sales centers, and service providers to support the main company’s customers. Each independent center or subsidiary may have their own business model, workflows, and business processes.”
    The second definition, which is attributed to Gartner, is very specific. It imposes certain requirements on how two-tiered ERP is employed and defines different types of two-tier ERP implementations.
    “Two-tier ERP is the use of different ERP systems at two different layers of the organization: One system serves as the global backbone, often for …

  • Does SAP's Acquisition of Qualtrics Make Any Sense?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … dials–they hover over you and micro manage like crazy. It would be nice to get some coaching instead of getting hounded on metrics all day. All they do is refresh the dashboards all day and push us for more dials dials dials. If you don’t hit your metrics or “points” you can’t leave the office, you literally will be forced to work 10 hours.”
    Well, that sounds like a boiler room operation, similar to the one run by Gartner in Fort Myers. Qualtrics has demonstrated a pattern of misleading nearly everyone they come into contact with …

  • How to Understand Why ERP Systems Have a High TCO and Low ROI

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … constraints have been met, but the system may still be an overall failure or vice versa. So these conventional measures of project success are only partial and possibly misleading measures when taken in isolation (Shenhar and Levy, 1997). — Measures of Success in Project Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning
    With such high costs, ERP consumes much of the overall IT budget. According to Forrester and Gartner, the maintenance of ERP systems consumes 50 to 90 percent of the IT budget. As with any other software, ERP software consumes resources across all IT operating budget categories. ERP has proven to be an expensive

  • How to Understand The Logic Used to Sell ERP Systems

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    … other pro-ERP sources never performed a post-mortem, these false logics are used to sell ERP systems.
    As a principle, it isn’t brilliant to be impressed with a system because it is bundled. Trying to single-source most of your software from one vendor is also unwise. However, Gartner was happy to sheepdog customers to SAP vendors….for the right price (payments from vendors).
    SAP customers are discovering with indirect access claims and continually increasing support costs that the more leverage the vendor has over you, the worse you will be treated. SAP ERP systems do not have …