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… majority of information on the Internet on SAP is provided by SAP, which is filled with false claims and sleazy consulting companies and SAP consultants who will tell any lie for personal 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. 

What SAP and SAP Consulting Partners Would Like Customers to Believe
Generally, both SAP and the SAP consulting partners prefer that their customers know nothing about indirect access. It is amusing to see IBM, Deloitte, or

… use SAP programs such as the BAPI® programming interface, remote function calls (RFC), or transaction calls.”
Examples of Potential Indirect Access Usage
“Business customers using an eCommerce platform to place sales orders
Sales representatives capturing sales orders via mobile device to input into SAP ERP
A third-party CRM system accessing data in SAP ERP
Partners and suppliers accessing SAP to check inventory and stock levels
Partner or suppliers running and accessing reports on SAP system data via SAP BO
Engineers entering plant maintenance data into SAP via mobile devices
A third-party logistics provider using a handheld device

… the claim through other means) with the licenses that it already owns. But the only way to know for sure is to have the information in hand that can only come from using SAM software and performing the analysis.

The Problem: Secrecy Around Indirect Access
Oracle, SAP, and their consulting partners, ASUG, as well as the IT media entities all, have something in common. They don’t want indirect access understood. Media outlets like Diginomica are paid to distribute PR releases as articles, as we covered in the article SAP’s Recycled Indirect Access Damage Control for 2018. The intent …