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  • Our 2019 Observation: SAP Leonardo is Now Dead

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … announced that SAP Leonardo would leverage Azure IoT services, including Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Edge, to provide access to secure connectivity at scale, powerful device management functionality, and industry-leading edge computing support.
    Connecting the Dots
    SAP is resetting its product strategy. Leukert left SAP immediately, and Michael Kleinemeier got an extension of his contract until 2020. S/4 actual adoption is estimated at around 5%, and HEC is one foot out of the door. Leonardo is a complete flop and is no longer mentioned by SAP’s mighty marketing machine. The layoffs are a global cull …

  • How to Personally Attack Those Who Critique ERP Failures

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … intended to do what they look like, improving the consulting company’s ability to close sales.
    The Result of All of These “Beautiful Methodologies?”
    Now, after all of this, how long do SAP implementations take? Well, our research shows that SAP implementations are lengthening, not shortening.
    Why?
    With products like HANA and S/4HANA being so immature (for details, see Analysis of Steve Chaflen’s Article on S/4HANA Maturity), these implementations are restricted from completion. With SAP’s new C/4HANA, its maturity is so far out, yet still, the company already started promoting it at SAPPHIRE 2018 …

  • How Accurate Was Bluefin Solutions on C/4HANA?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    Bluefin Solutions published a bizarre article on C/4HANA that focused more on methodology than on what C/4HANA is.
    The proposal by Bluefin Solutions is that C/4HANA will speed implementations.

    Video Introduction: How Accurate Was Bluefin Solutions on C/4HANA?
    https://youtu.be/Fj7v-KuaAsA
    Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)

    Bluefin Solutions has been the source of an enormous amount of inaccurate information around HANA and S/4HANA. But visiting the Bluefin Solutions website, one can find false information on any SAP topic. The reason is that none of the information is designed …

  • How to Best Understand SAP's Negative Innovation

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    SAP produces negative innovation and focuses far more on marketing innovation than actually creating innovation.
    Examples of fake or negative innovations are HANA and S/4HANA, among many others.

    Video Introduction: How to Best Understand SAP’s Negative Innovation
    https://youtu.be/FuoheCrvaMg
    Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)
    Many companies exaggerate the amount of innovation they are involved in. This extends from software vendors to pharmaceutical companies. SAP is, along with other mega-vendors like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle, one of the greatest exaggerators of the innovation that they are engaged in. In this …

  • Does Brightwork Have an Axe to Grind with SAP?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … replicate Oracle marketing information about the Oracle Autonomous Database.
    “First, the documents show as I state in the analysis, telltale signs of being copy and pastes from Oracle marketing. So the bias is apparent through the writing and the conclusions.
    Second, recall what I wrote. IDG accepts large amounts of money from Oracle for paid placements and advertising. IDG owns IDC. The IDC article may also have been a paid placement, or not. But either way, the parent IDG draws significant income from Oracle. That explains all the inaccurate articles I have critiqued from IDG over time on SAP …

  • How to Understand The Declining Upgradability of SAP Products

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … behind that next door? 
    Products like HANA and S/4HANA were not well planned. High-level executives at SAP, you know those men with “the real vision” massively overpromised when these products would be ready. And when they arrived, they were not innovative.
    Because of the unrealistic timelines, they were introduced too early, which lead to design decisions being made before development was ready to make them.
    A Future of Multiple Migrations
    As an example, companies that implemented the first versions of these products now face multiple migrations. That is a 3 Step Migration from Business Suite + AnyDb to …

  • Understanding SAP and Harvey Weinstein and the Abuse of Power

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … reached at least eight such settlements over decades.
    Lawmakers in New York and California are proposing legislation that would void any settlement agreement that conceals claims of sexual harassment or discrimination.”
    NDAs Generalized to Broadscale Abuse
    However, a natural question that arises is why only for sexual harassment or discrimination? That is, is covering up abuse ok if it is not sexual harassment or discrimination? Are lawmakers proposing this legislation interested in a broader discussion of how private practice attorneys enable abuse through settlement agreements and NDAs?
    Right now, SAP is pressuring customers into moving to HANA and S …

  • How to Use the S/4HANA Implementation Study (Complete) (2017)

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … include the following:

    Although never presented in this light, S/4HANA is a large house cleaning project that includes code removal, code adjustments, and other typical changes when a software vendor dives into its application to change the technical components for improved efficiently, redundancy reduction, etc..
    S/4HANA removes and changes come of its functionality, but much of S/4HANA is the same as ECC. SAP has done what it can to obscure this by introducing a new user interface called Fiori and by trumping up S/4HANA’s “innovation” and also by pointing out performance improvements in HANA …

  • What is the Accuracy of CONSILIO IT on MRP on HANA Performance?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … requirements planning – this is the performance improvement achieved by an MRP solution with SAP HANA technology compared to a classical MRP. These impressive figures have recently provided a test scenario for the specialist solution provider CONSILIO IT-Solutions, a company founded by former SAP and KPMG managers, who is constantly testing and developing new developments for its customers in the logistics, production, organization and information technology industries in innovative applications for its customers.”
    This performance improvement is not matched by any observations that Brightwork Research & Analysis has collected (which include both client data points and benchmarks).
    Quite the opposite …

  • What Were the Inaccuracies in SAP's Q2 2017 Earnings Call

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … After Launch

    “Yeah. It’s hard to add anything to that. I think adoption always in our industry is kind of an S-shape and we are clearly basically still in the early adopter phase. As you pointed out some of the early adopters have a long way to go to really roll it out across the entire end state. And now we see the first emergences of fast followers kicking in. So we have lots of room to grow.” – Luca Mucic

    Luca has the same strange time concept that Bill McDermott, where an application begins wider adoption somewhere …