Executive Summary Forrester was paid off by SAP to create a false TCO study that is inaccurate. SAP fed a passive Forrester TCO information on HANA. Introduction SAP paid Forrester to produce a fake TCO study of HANA published in April 2014. This study had no validity and passively used information provided by SAP without…
Executive Summary SAP’s original plan for dominating the database market with HANA was overly optimistic. The software was given a massive marketing and PR push. Video Introduction: Changes in Policy Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been communicating that it will replace Oracle DB with HANA on a mass scale. This…
Executive Summary SAP has an enormous product database of software. We count and categorize the SAP software product database by how active or popular each of the SAP products is. Introduction At Brightwork Research & Analysis, we spend many hours per week researching SAP. However, it is a full-time job keeping up with SAP’s products…
Executive Summary John Appleby of Bluefin Solutions has been a provider of inaccurate information around HANA. Questions surround many of Appleby’s claims around HANA, including that SAP has no future on HANA, how HANA will enable a new class of applications and whether HANA will somehow connect uniquely SAP Cloud Platform. Video Introduction: Analysis of…
Executive Summary With a sales quota for SAP services under Bluefin Solutions, John Appleby provided an enormous amount of false information about HANA. John Appleby served as a source of false information on HANA. Video Introduction: John Appleby’s Prediction on HANA Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) For reasons that I do not…
Executive Summary John Appleby typically provides inaccurate information on SAP. In this article, we review his inaccuracies in his S/4HANA article. Video Introduction: The Problem with John Appleby’s Explanation of S/4HANA Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) Bluefin Solutions is a consulting company that provides incredibly inaccurate information about SAP. Bluefin Solutions…
Executive Summary Find out the issues with HANA and S/4HANA pricing before negotiating with SAP. How to Understand the Pricing of S/4HANA and HANA Introduction This article will review the implications for HANA pricing and S/4HANA pricing. If you are negotiating with SAP, neither SAP nor the SAP consulting firms will want you to read…
Executive Summary The lies in an NTT Data article about HANA are so extreme that we created a new award called the Propaganda Award. Review one of the worst articles ever written about HANA. Introduction The Brightwork Research & Analysis Propaganda in It Award is awarded to articles that contain excessive degrees of false information about…
Executive Summary SAP has cut off its customers’ options by restricting S/4HANA to HANA. This is limiting the uptake of S/4HANA. It brings up the question of whether SAP will stay with the restriction of S/4HANA to just HANA. Introduction to S/4HANA Being Restricted to HANA I have concluded that SAP will have to significantly…