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… had. This is covered in the article How to Best Understand SAP’s Faux Change on Indirect Access.
If you can convince people that something specifically designed to obscure a topic is designed to clarify it, that is message control of the highest order.

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

… cost to its customers. For example, in a recent announcement, SAP specifically designed a release to make companies lower their guard. In the announcement, SAP gave nothing of substance to customers. But it was designed to appear as if they had. This is covered in the article How to Best Understand SAP’s Faux Change on Indirect Access.

The Problem: Secrecy Around Indirect Access
Oracle, SAP, and their consulting partners, ASUG, and 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 …

… connected to SAP would fall under indirect access. Unsurprisingly, ASUG is simply repeating SAP’s position on this topic.
Is it All Just a Matter of Confusion?
Has SAP done enough to help customers understand this? No, which is the sentiment that we share with DSAG, our German user community partner. (You can read DSAG’s view on the topic here.)
Right.
However, ASUG is nothing like DSAG. DSAG writes articles that criticize SAP because they do represent their members. The most ASUG will do stated that “SAP has not done enough to help customers understand this.” Which is not …