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  • Why SAP Leonardo Seems So Fake

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … never baked a cake in my life. Now I may have some of the ingredients in my home. But those ingredients can be found anywhere. I have not brought anything special to the table that you can’t get anywhere else.
    SAP will continue to talk up IoT; their complaint partner network will reinforce them. However, SAP is starting with really nothing for SAP Leonardo. I am confident that if a customer were to purchase SAP Leonardo right now, it would be a development project.
    SAP cannot answer why an ERP system like SAP ECC or S/4HANA, which has …

  • Misleading Next Steps from ASUG on Indirect Access

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … 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 …

  • How SAP Has Been Secretly Outsourcing Hosting

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    SAP states that they offer cloud services to customers, but in most cases, this is outsourced to other entities that SAP places a margin upon.
    SAP only recommends entities that allow it to markup their services.

    Video Introduction: How SAP Has Been Secretly Outsourcing Hosting
    https://youtu.be/II1QqDZKcmQ
    Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)
    SAP has been posing as a cloud service provider like AWS or GCP. What is little discussed that SAP has been outsourcing the cloud contracts that it sells under the HANA Cloud Platform or HEC to its consulting and outsourcing partners …

  • An Analysis of UpperEdge's Article on Indirect Access Announcement

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … please?!”
    Exactly. This announcement is designed to appease and to have customers lower their guard. I have Brightwork’s take on the SAP indirect access announcement at SAPPHIRE.
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    Conclusion
    We give UpperEdge a 9.5 out of 10 for accuracy in this article.

    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 articles, as we covered in the article SAP’s Recycled Indirect Access Damage

  • How to Best Understand SAP's Multicloud Announcement

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … business processes.
    “Digital transformation needs escape velocity.”
    This has nothing to do with whether one should use SAP for hosting services when there are so many better options in the market that are proven. Overall the expansionist and looney tunes commentary sounds like something from one of Deepak Chopra’s books. You can get the same commentary from the patients of any number of insane asylums.
    NetWeaver and Some Buzzwords
    “Also on Tuesday, SAP announced the expansion of its Google Cloud Platform partnership to certify SAP NetWeaver and integrate machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and productivity tools …

  • How to Best Understand SAP Faux Change on Indirect Access

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … access for sales orders and purchase orders that customers should not have to pay for in the first place, and a nebulous statement about static read, which we have to observe through SAP’s actions what that means.
    “Customers that want to win in a modern, digital world need a partner that is willing to reimagine their own processes to drive success in a digital economy. What I can assure every customer is that at SAP — with the unwavering support of CEO Bill McDermott and every SAP employee — is that your voice matters. When customers speak, SAP listens. In my …

  • The Problem with the Judge's Ruling on the SAP Diageo Case

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    The judgment of the UK court for SAP vs. Diageo made little sense upon reading the summary.
    Problematic areas included how the judge interpreted how systems work and the reality of integration.

    Introduction
    I recently found an interesting article on indirect access from UpperEdge. I consider UpperEdge to produce some of the best articles on indirect access, and like me, they can tell the truth on indirect access in the way that an entity that accepts money or is an SAP partner can’t. I agree with UpperEdge on the facts of indirect access, but I still see …

  • How to Understand SAP Indirect Access as an Abusive Relationship

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    The way that SAP uses indirect access against companies is abusive.
    Indirect access means engaging in high-pressure tactics to extract undeserved monies from customers.

    Introduction
    I recently found an interesting article from UpperEdge on the topic of indirect access. Like me, UpperEdge can tell the truth about indirect access in the way that an entity that accepts money or is an SAP partner can’t.
    However, something in a recent article from UpperEdge got me thinking about what it translates to and how that connects to abusive relationships.
    See our references for this article and related articles …

  • Hoover Siphons Off Education Funds from Stanford

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Stanford’s money, and one wonders how they justify to students spending general funds on a non-educational think tank that mistakes PR and industry supported doctrine for research. Could this be one of the reasons tuition is so expensive? The book above describes how university research parks, industry-university “partnerships” and other non-education activities are the real reason for the increasingly expensive tuition at many universities. Only people at Stanford can do something about this. The Stanford’s Student Union has already attempted to bring up the issue of Hoover, but much more needs to be done. Hoover …

  • Chase New to California But Not to Corruption

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … bank, so it may not be typical—or perhaps fewer of the crimes and misdemeanors of the other megabanks have come to light. Either way, a portrait of the new 21st-century Chase bank illustrates the kinds of business practices that megabanks can now pursue. Chase has engaged in plenty of questionable behavior (and gotten into plenty if legal scrapes) on other fronts as well. For one thing, it is the silent partner to a whole range of businesses—such as payday lenders, pawn shops, and check cashing stores—that prey on low-income households with little or no …