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  • Introduction to Brightwork SAP Support

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Heuristics

    SAP PP/DS

    Production Planning Optimizer or Heuristics, Detailed Scheduling
    Heuristics and Optimizers, All Product, Planning and Service Heuristics

    SAP GATP

    Global ATP with Advanced Rules Based ATP check.
    Delivery Simulation with BOP

    SAP APO Integration

    Integration (CIF), Master Data

    SAP BW

    Data Workbench
    Report Creation
    Much more…

    SAP HANA

    HANA migration
    HANA optimization
    HANA performance tuning
    HANA maintenance
    Much more..

    Examples of Specific Offerings
    Some of our specifics of what we offer, include, but are not limited to the following:

    All Upgrades (DS, LC, OS, Kernel, Security, Patches, Ehp)
    User Security Self Help Templates
    Third Party Software Integration …

  • Does Hiring Large SAP Consulting Firms Work as Political Insurance?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … resource, and I have had many, as soon as I begin to mention implementability or reality, the tension in that relationship quickly rises. Questions around implementability often lead me to be categorized as negative and have dramatically reduced the relationship’s congeniality. After one tense exchange at a dinner over HANA, where I brought up the many issues with HANA, the salesperson (who was, of course, paying for my meal) said to me.
    “Shaun, don’t you think that SAP is a large company with a lot of resources and that they will just figure it out?”
    I said no …

  • Teaching Oracle About Hypocrisy on Lock In

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … vendors globally, but at the same time pretending that Oracle competes for business in a free market. It means working for a company with the worst record of punishing customers with punitive audits that no other vendor performs but feeling good about that fact. It means saying stupid things like “HANA locks the database to the application” while knowing full well that all of Oracle’s applications mostly work on Oracle.

    That is hypocrisy! It is now one of the most crucial exam questions at Oracle.
    Only those with the highest level of hypocrisy are good fits for Oracle. You …

  • How to Understand SAP's Strange Predictive Analytics for ML

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … youtu.be/v2jBYMvpeAY
    Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)
    Before HANA and machine learning, SAP used to market something called predictive analytics. This was out-of-the-box forecasting that SAP state would in nearly an automated fashion. SAP later migrated the same promises from predictive analytics to HANA and machine learning. You will learn of the SAP’s predictive analytics claims and our analysis of these claims, how SAP tried to sell public algorithms to their customers, and how the false claims they make to IT buyers that using HANA will speed the overall process.
    Our References …

  • How to Understand SAP's Fictional Cloud Revenues

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … centers across the globe.
    Lower TCO with an affordable, pay-as-you-go subscription model and minimal up-front.”
    The Evidence for Lower TCO with SAP Cloud?
    Does SAP have any independent studies that can demonstrate that the SAP HANA Cloud Platform lowers TCO, or is this just a sales statement that has nothing to back it up? That is, of course, a rhetorical statement. We know SAP doesn’t. SAP usually does not provide evidence of TCO claims. One of the few times they did, when they paid Forrester to estimate HANA’s lower TCO claim, the study …

  • Are We Smarter..?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … researching IT topics. However, Gartner and Forrester do not agree and are perfectly willing to take strategy consultants with not software background to serve as analysts. This lack of technical expertise (along with the money vendors pay them) is how both Gartner and Forrester were so easily fooled on SAP HANA. Forrester created an estimated for HANA‘s lower TCO before HANA had even been implemented. Impressive!
    Should All Information Provided to Clients be Promotional in Nature?
    If one looks at the material produced by the SAP and Oracle consulting firms, there is rarely any critical information included so that …

  • Why Cloud is at a Crossroads

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … it is not feasible for SAP to offer multitenant due to versioning. That is, different customers are using different versions of S/4HANA. This is why the following comment is entirely incorrect.
    “However, there is no reason why a partner couldn’t duplicate this offer for its customers – even exploiting HANA’s multi-tenancy feature included as part of SP9.” – Diginomica
    It turns out there is a big reason why customers won’t be able to address this. And that is due to versioning. And does Diginomica happens to be funded in part by SAP? So big surprise, Diginomics repeats …

  • How to Understand Exadata and Exadata Cloud Services

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … the multi-base as it does not offer very many different database types. Werner Vogels of AWS describes the multi-base approach.
    Werner Vogels on Leveraging Multiple Database Types
    While SAP has proposed using a single database type (the one database type SAP wants customers to focus on, which is HANA) and finds its most willing customers in those that know the least about databases, AWS offers their customers the choice of leveraging many different database types.
    An excellent article by Werner Vogels, who is the CTO of AWS, explains this.
    “A common question that I get is why do …

  • How to Understand Gartner's Disastrous Advice on Mainframes

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Gartner in applications and found they lacked expertise there. Then we found that Gartner knew nothing about databases, as we covered in the article Can Anyone Make Sense of the ODMS Magic Quadrant?, but this did not stop them from trying to analyze and project what would happen with SAP HANA as we cover in the article How Gartner Got HANA So Wrong. They also don’t understand mainframes or the mainframe market. We are still looking for some area of technology where customers should listen to Gartner. And we have yet to find one.
    Being Directed to the Most …

  • How to Understand The Design of Mainframes

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … processing analytical queries.

    SAP’s new S/4HANA ERP system is the first SAP ERP to be highly focused on analytics instead of SAP ECC, which had virtually no analytics.

    However, nothing in S/4HANA’s analytics screens requires any particular analytic-specific processing. The reports are canned and precompiled before they are viewed. However, this does not stop SAP from claiming that the in-memory HANA database is critical for analytics.
    Gartner declares some areas of technology as “hot” and others as “not.” And Gartner does not have very much interest in mainframes and transaction processing. However, systems …