Expanding Section: SAP's Claims Around S/4HANA

Frequently the claim will use a statistic regarding the success of an application. SAP will often have the word “number of customers” that it has. SAP has also taken this approach this with HANA and S/4HANA. SAP has announced roughly 500 new "customers" every quarter for S/4HANA. SAP will often follow the statement about the customer numbers with something quite optimistic about how the software is transforming the way their customers are doing XYZ. This again was stated in the 2017 Q1 analysts call. “Driven by S/4HANA, our core innovations are growing really fast with software licenses up 13%. We now have more than 5,800 S/4HANA customers with global companies like Energy SE, choosing S/4 in the first quarter. Big brands like Citrix Systems selected S/4 cloud edition, the leading intelligent cloud ERP solution in the market by far." – Bill McDermott, SAP “Were we happy or disappointed with 400? I think the bigger topic is we have 5,800. We have a snowballing effect now that on the go-live customers and we have more and more projects ongoing that are more complete than just finance and logistics, so it's really a very, very good story for all of SAP.” – Ron Enslin, SAP This is covered in the article How SAP Mislead Analyst Q1 2017 Earnings Call. One of the peculiar things about S/4HANA has been the discrepancy between the number of "customers," or companies that own S/4HANA versus the number of companies that are live on S/4HANA. And understanding this means getting into what the definition of a customer is to a software vendor. SAP continues to show consistent growth in customers for S/4HANA (image from UpperEdge -- https://upperedge.com/sap/migrating-to-sap-s-4hana-could-get-you-fired-not-deciding-on-s-4hana-will-probably-get-you-fired/)

Expanding Section: The Technical Tie Between S/4HANA and HANA

The Technical Tie Between S/4HANA and HANA S/4HANA has been artificially restricted so that it only runs on the HANA database. Although not part of the research, I have thoroughly analyzed the technical merits of SAP’s argument for why this is necessary and found all of SAP’s claims in this area to be without merit . SAP intends to use the artificial restriction of tying S/4HANA to HANA to push Oracle and other database vendors out of being used for S/4HANA. What will likely occur with S/4HANA being ported to non-SAP databases is covered in the Brightwork article Why SAP Will Have to Backtrack on S/4HANA . HANA and S/4HANA more from a technical perspective are covered in a number of articles in the Brightwork dedicated to HANA and S/4HANA.

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How Accurate Was SAP in Keeping S/4HANA Exclusive to HANA?
ByPrimary Researcher May 29, 2020March 14, 2021

… benefits (which we covered in the article How Accurate Was SAP on In Memory Computing?) Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft all swiftly added column-orientated capabilities to their databases. In the article How Accurate with Bloor Research on Oracle In Memory?, we agreed with Bloor Research that columnar data stores for databases that supported ERP systems were more of a marketing gimmick. Bringing extra complexity into the environment that the ERP system would not leverage, then actual need. But as Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft followed suit, there was never any reason, outside of the monopolistic lock-in restriction, for SAP …

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SAP and Wall Street

The Reasons Given for McDermott's Departure from SAP
ByPrimary Researcher October 12, 2019February 27, 2021

… has undertaken efforts to push out more experienced workers.
This follows Oracle’s pattern of reducing the cost and quality of workers. It has also led to reports of Oracle’s resources being pushed into roles for which they are entirely unqualified.
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Conclusion
The evidence indicates that Bill McDermott was pushed out of SAP on short notice. Bill McDermott just recently stated he was…
“just getting started as CEO of SAP,”
Which means he had no plans to leave SAP (in addition to being a strange thing to say for a person who has been in …

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SAP HANA Architecture

Why Pressure SAP to Port S/4HANA to AnyDB?
ByPrimary Researcher September 1, 2019May 7, 2021

… radically different data model, with 10,000 tables becoming 3,000 tables. It means that every adapter or customization that exists for an ECC customer will need to be rewritten. This is a major effort, and the problem is that it does not come with a corresponding benefit because HANA underperforms competing databases. HANA’s database design is a poor fit for ERP, as we cover in the article Mismatch Between HANA and S/4HANA and ECC. SAP refused to benchmark its database against competing databases and created an entirely new benchmark that is not a good fit for …

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Are Brightwork's Statements Too General Versus SAP?
ByPrimary Researcher June 8, 2019March 14, 2021

… HANA (they had to run in the DB layer for speed).
Hasso Plattner stated that HANA was zero latency.
Steve Lucas stated that HANA allowed workers to work 5000 times more efficiently.
As you work for SAP, you are in a peculiar position to point to a lack of specificity in our articles and research. This is because top executives at your company make outrageous and highly generalized claims on every single quarterly call and at SAPPHIRE and in front of clients and on the website, etc.. So let us look at what you claimed we said that is …

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Expanding Section: SAP's Claims Around S/4HANA
ByPrimary Researcher May 29, 2019

Frequently the claim will use a statistic regarding the success of an application. SAP will often have the word “number of customers” that it has. SAP has also taken this approach this with HANA and S/4HANA.
SAP has announced roughly 500 new “customers” every quarter for S/4HANA. SAP will often follow the statement about the customer numbers with something quite optimistic about how the software is transforming the way their customers are doing XYZ. This again was stated in the 2017 Q1 analysts call.
“Driven by S/4HANA, our core innovations are growing really fast with software licenses …

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Expanding Section: The Technical Tie Between S/4HANA and HANA
ByPrimary Researcher May 28, 2019

A Expanding Section: The Technical Tie Between S/4HANA and HANA Posted by Shaun Snapp on May 28, 2019 The Technical Tie Between S/4HANA and HANA S/4HANA has been artificially restricted so that it only runs on the HANA database. Although not part of the research, I have thoroughly analyzed the technical merits of SAP’s argument…

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Hasso Plattner

How Accurate Was Hasso Plattner About SAP HANA Publications?
ByPrimary Researcher May 12, 2019January 31, 2024

Executive Summary At SAPPHIRE 2019, Hasso Plattner makes claims around academic publications supporting HANA. We evaluate the accuracy of these claims by fact-checking the publications. Introduction This is the video of Hasso Plattner; we will be reviewing it for accuracy. Our References for This Article If you want to see our references for this article…

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SAP HANA False Claims

The Chalfen Accuracy Checker: A Study into Mark Chalfen’s Accuracy on S/4HANA and SOH
ByPrimary Researcher April 7, 2019March 3, 2021

Executive Summary For years Mark Chalfen provided information about HANA, S/4HANA, and SOH to the market. This is a study that measure’s Mark Chalfen’s accuracy. Introduction Mark Chalfen of Bluefin Solutions published several blog posts around S/4HANA, SOH, and also HANA. This study was created to catalog many (but certainly not all) of Chalfen’s statements…

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SAP HANA Appleby Papers

The Appleby Accuracy Checker: A Study into John Appleby’s Accuracy on HANA
ByPrimary Researcher April 3, 2019March 2, 2021

Executive Summary For years John Appleby provided information about HANA to the market. This is a study that measure’s John Appleby’s accuracy. Introduction HANA was introduced in 2011, although little actually happened with HANA in 2011. In 2012 and particularly into 2013 and forward, John Appleby of Bluefin Solutions published large amounts of inaccurate HANA…

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SAP HANA Performance

The Hidden Issue with the SD HANA Benchmarks
ByPrimary Researcher March 29, 2019January 19, 2024

Executive Summary SAP has used the SD benchmarks for years for other databases. Four years into S/4HANA, SAP has no benchmarks for S/HANA SD or ECC SD on HANA. Introduction SAP has used the SD benchmarks for years to test for transaction processing performance, but something peculiar happened when SAP released HANA, and the benchmarking…

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