Executive Summary SAP has several international bribery cases. This table was created to keep these bribery cases and to catalog likely future SAP bribery cases. Introduction At Brightwork Research & Analysis, we have long held that SAP is a highly corrupt company, and its rise had much more to do with its ability to corrupt…
Executive Summary SAP has had a long-term arrangement where it allows partners to take first level support. With its Cloud Extension program, SAP is changing this arrangement for many SAP partners. Video Introduction: How SAP is Cutting Some of Its Partners Out of the SAP Support Business Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)…
Executive Summary SAP resources live in a bubble where virtually all media coverage towards SAP is positive. This causes them to be triggered by the fact checking of SAP. Introduction Since we have been fact-checking SAP, we frequently receive comments from SAP resources that have nothing to do with the content but everything to do…
Executive Summary When Vishal Sikka joined the Oracle board of directors, Oracle claimed it was his AI knowledge. Our research points to a different reason Oracle has hired Vishal Sikka. Introduction This article is essentially part two of the article Is Oracle Board Member Vishal Sikka a World Expert on AI? The end of that…
Executive Summary When Vishal Sikka joined the Oracle board of directors, Oracle claimed he was one of the world’s leading experts in AI. We analyze whether this claim by Oracle is true. Introduction When Vishal Sikka joined Oracle’s board of directors, some amazing things were claimed and repeated throughout the media. Notice this web page…
Executive Summary ABAP is a highly inefficient development language that should be removed from SAP accounts. This article will explain how to do this. Introduction ABAP is not a fully functional development language. It is instead a report writing language with a large number of libraries. ABAP problems are covered in the article Why Did…
Executive Summary Sometimes we receive the question of how to reduce the investment into SAP. This article explains how to do this. Introduction We recently received the following question. Curious to review any research or opinion pieces Brightwork has available on SAP Certified development partners and how one could improve an existing ERP platform instead…
Executive Summary SAP has created a sales program that will cause several customers to convert their on-premises SAP environments to the cloud — on paper. Video Introduction: A Brightwork Warning on SAP’s Cloud Extension Program Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has introduced a program for migrating SAP customers to the cloud…but…
Executive Summary The South African energy utility, Eskom, has been in long term decline. As it has been mismanaged, it has been systematically pilfered by several entities ranging from Deloitte, McKinsey, the Guptas, and SAP, among others. Introduction Eskom’s decline began around the change in government to the ANC. Eskom has been living off its…
Executive Summary SAP is continually fighting against the perception that its applications are challenging to integrate. We explain why this is. Shaun Snapp and Denis Myagkov co-authored this article. Video Introduction: How Non Programming Integration Solutions Undermine SAP Projects Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP’s current integration products use non-programming approaches that…