Executive Summary SAP and SAP consulting firms dominate the presentation of why and when SAP customers should move to HANA. Our HANA Assessment is without SAP or their consulting firms’ influence or financial bias. Introduction SAP and SAP consulting companies propose that HANA is the future and that companies should move to HANA now, and…
Executive Summary SAP and SAP consulting firms dominate the presentation of why and when SAP customers should move to S/4HANA. Our S/4HANA Assessment is without SAP or their consulting firms’ influence or financial bias. Introduction SAP and SAP consulting companies propose that S/4HANA is the future and that companies should move to S/4HANA now, and…
Executive Summary Gartner provides specific advice on how to manage S/4HANA licenses and related topics best. We evaluate this advice for accuracy. Introduction Gartner states the following about S/4HANA software licenses in their article, How to License SAP S/4HANA Software, and their article, Minimizing S/4HANA Migration Costs by Leveraging conversion. Gartner Begins by Providing the…
Executive Summary We have been saying for some time that SAP makes ridiculous claims for S/4HANA. With its claim to offer the first “hands free ERP,” how accurate is this claim? Video Introduction: Is S/4HANA Cloud The World’s First Hands Free ERP? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has a long tradition…
Executive Summary itelligence has a large amount of false information on its website around their S/4HANA experienced. We cover itelligence’s blatant deception in this article. Video Introduction: How to Interpret itelligence’s Massive Lies on S/4HANA Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) The lies in SAP consulting firm websites never cease to amaze…
Executive Summary This is the publication of the results of our survey on SAP HANA. These results are quite contrary to what both SAP and SAP’s consulting partners said about HANA. Introduction We ran a poll on the Brightwork website, asking detailed questions of those who had experiences with HANA. We are publishing this poll…
Executive Summary LeasePlan announced their ERP failure; however, the statement was, in part, a cover-up. We explain what actually failed at LeasePlan. Introduction LeasePlan’s leadership decided to create a cover story for their € 100 million write-offs related to S/4HANA and other (unstated and indeterminate SAP products purchased as part of their 2017 purchase from…
Executive Summary Nanshan Life Insurance made significant investments in building customizations around S/4HANA. This investment was a major failure for Nanshan, a story that is uncovered in the non-Taiwanese Media. Introduction IT industry’s standard excuse for failed ERP projects always has been something akin to the following: The software is not the problem. The mistake…
Executive Summary SAP announced making HANA “cloud-native.” We provide our analysis for what this means. Introduction At SAP’s TechEd announced that its HANA database had been re-architected for the cloud. ZDNet covered this. Beneath those headlines was a very significant development, of SAP re-architecting HANA for its new managed cloud database service to become what…
Executive Summary S Oliver failed in its implementation of S/4HANA, a fact that has been kept secret. We cover this failed S/4HANA case study. Introduction We have been warning people about S/4HANA’s implementation problems for several years now. Did we cover this in the article Why Did SAP Fake S/4HANA Maturity So Aggressively? Explain how…