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  • How Accurate is SAP on Vora?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … warehouses and Hadoop data, ” said Nick Heudecker, research director at Gartner.

    That is strange because that is not what Spark is used for.
    The Problem with Vora and the Dominance of Open Source Big Data Products

    “SAP was smart to build it on Spark which is the loudest parade in town right now and very programmer focused,” Neudecker added.
    One potential downside to Vora is that lot of the programmers in this field have an affinity for open-source software and SAP, is definitively a commercial software company which means it likes to be paid for its software. It …

  • Who Was Right and Who Was Wrong on SAP HANA?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … the HANA promoter’s position from him, Appleby. John Appleby and Bluefin Solutions but all consulting partners of SAP release inaccurate information about SAP as they compete to see who can more intensively shine the shoes of SAP in return for special consideration.
    John Appleby’s inaccuracy level was so high that we investigated it in the article A Study into John Appleby’s HANA Accuracy. We later found that John Appleby was releasing false information HANA to promote his company before its acquisition, as we cover in the article Appleby’s False HANA Statements and the Mindtree Acquisition.
    Gartner:

  • Publishing Accurate Information Versus SAP & Libel and Defamation

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    This article covers the rules around libel and defamation.
    Getting the word out to media entities.

    Introduction
    One of the questions I receive is whether Brightwork is concerned about receiving a cease and desist letter from SAP. This question is asked because at Brightwork Research & Analysis writes objective and information that is critical of SAP, as well as other entities such as Gartner, Deloitte, Accenture, etc..
    This article will cover the legal protections what is referred to as libel or defamation.
    Libel Versus Defamation
    The broad category of this topic is called defamation.

    In a print form, the …

  • How Accurate is SAP's Page on APO?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … and Optimization – from planning and installation to operation.”
    SAP has no studies that demonstrate any ROI with APO implementations. SAP has found that they can claim they like about TCO or ROI because the vast majority of customers never ask for any evidence to support these claims. When SAP does fund a TCO study, as they did with Gartner (for HANA), is it engineering to show whatever SAP wanted to show, as is covered in the article How Accurate is Forrester’s HANA TCO Study? SAP and their consulting surrogates want it both ways. They want to sell costly software

  • How to Understand the Enterprise Software Market

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … pay Yelp to change its reviews. Yelp has been extremely important in improving the market’s efficiency for local services, channeling more customers to higher-rated businesses, enhancing market efficiency.
    Few financially unbiased media entities exist that provide objective information on enterprise software. Some of the best-known names, notably Gartner, have the most substantial financial bias. This will be covered in specific detail later in this book. In interviewing buyers and performing troubleshooting and diagnostic projects for problematic implementations, it is clear that buyers cannot consistently determine application capabilities, the level of vendor innovation, or even the fit between …

  • References for Rethinking Enterprise Software Risk Book

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Despite_Disappointing_Strategic_Value
    Costo Total de Propiedad Estrategias en la Industria del Software, Adrián Ruffinatti, Amazon Digital Services, 2010
    https://www.cio.com/article/29654/The_Hidden_Costs_of_Offshore_Outsourcing
    Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership for Software Platforms: Comparing Apples, Oranges and Cucumbers, Alan MacCormack, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2013
    Rethinking TCO: Towards a More Viable and Useful Measure of IT Costs, Joshua Greenbaum, Enterprise Application Consulting, Spring 2005
    Control Your ERP Destiny, Steven Scott Philips, Street Smart ERP Publications, 2012
    https://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/total-cost-of-ownership-tco/
    The ABCs of

  • How to Manage Buying from Software from Large Vendors

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    It is often presented that risk is reduced by buying from the largest software vendors.
    This article explains why buying from large software vendors actually increases risk.

    Introduction
    After a detailed analysis of this topic, it is clear that the standard approaches to managing risk on enterprise software selection and implementations such as hiring a name brand consulting company, purchasing name-brand software, or paying for IT analysts like Gartner do not work. This should be entirely obvious at this point.
    Some journalists will bemoan the high failure rate of IT projects but will fail to point out …

  • How to Understand the IT Project Failure Ratio

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … few places,”
    Says John Bermudez, senior VP of research at AMR Research.
    “It hasn’t penetrated the company.”
    To see my comparison of how SAP supply planning software compares to best of breed, see this link below. For demand, planning sees this link. For production, planning sees this link. For service parts planning, see this link.
    Interpretation
    I have multiple examples of when analysts like Forrester and AMR have been wrong. In fact, AMR Research, which Gartner now owns, is normally quite inaccurate. Some of this inaccuracy is because analysts are too far away from the subjects they cover …

  • Using Outsourced Support to Gain Privacy from SAP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … benefit. 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. 

    Sharing Information with SAP
    And what we have come to learn is that SAP uses specific areas to trigger an indirect access audit. Gartner provided some coverage of indirect access. However, Gartner‘s coverage of this topic is restricted because they probably receive around $100 million every year from SAP. Yet, there are still some interesting things to learn from Gartner.
    In reviewing the Gartner recommendations on indirect

  • How to Use Outsourced Support to Gain Privacy from SAP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    Sharing Information with SAP
    And what we have come to learn is that SAP uses specific areas to trigger an indirect access audit. Gartner provided some coverage of indirect access. However, Gartner‘s coverage of this topic is restricted because they probably receive around $100 million every year from SAP. Yet, there are still some exciting things to learn from Gartner.
    In reviewing the Gartner recommendations on indirect access, I noted the following point:
    “Proceed carefully. When audited by SAP (or any vendor), share the minimum amount …