A Expanding Section: Employment Posted on May 29, 2019 The job listings don’t come anywhere near to matching SAP’s current estimate of 3,500 live implementations. There will be job listings for any technology, even if that technology is entirely lacking in implementations because there is presales work that needs to be done. And even failed…
A Expanding Section: The Private Case Studies Posted on May 28, 2019 These are case studies that have come to us through our network. The sources for this case studies include consultants who are either involved in S/4HANA implementations or involved in analyses of S/4HANA that companies moved some way along the process of considering…
A Expanding Section: Missing Public Case Studies Posted on May 28, 2019 Missing case studies are companies that have been announced to have selected S/4HANA, but then no information about the project or the go-live can be found. What happened to these projects is anyone’s guess. These are case studies that were caught between the…
Executive Summary MongoDB created a successful program for startups. We cover the inherent conflicts of interest in this program. Introduction The article How Appealing is the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem?, we covered how the Oracle startup program was filled with false claims. In this article, we will review MongoDB’s startup program. MongoDB Startup Program Website…
Executive Summary SAP AIF and BRF are proposed by SAP to be valuable integration products. We review these two applications. Video Introduction: How Realistic are SAP’s Claims Around SAP AIF BRF? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP AIF or Application Integration Framework follows an approach of promoting itself as a product that…
Executive Summary ASUG provides consistently false information about indirect access. We cover why it is so problematic for so much false information to come from an entity pretending to be a user group. Introduction For some time, I have questioned ASUG’s independence from SAP. And this questioning was reinforced through checking with several others who…
Executive Summary The Hasso Plattner Institute is routinely used to support SAP’s marketing contentions. How valid is the concept of vendor-controlled institutes on university campuses? Video Introduction: Should Oracle Create the Larry Ellison Institute to Counter the Hasso Plattner Institute? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) Hasso Plattner created the Hasso Plattner Institute…
Executive Summary Both SAP and Oracle have proposed that their customers place all data for applications and analytics on one of their database instances. How accurate are the claims of the benefits of such a design? Introduction In the article Exadata and data consolidation, the breakthrough towards successful transformation! Published on April 28, 2019, Oracle…
Executive Summary Steve Lucas stated that SAP would become the #2 database vendor by 2015. What happened regarding this prediction? Video Introduction: How Accurate Was SAP on Becoming the #2 Database Vendor by 2015? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) The following quotations come from the article SAP: We’ll Be No. 2 Database…
Executive Summary Mark Hurd displays weak arguments in his articles. Let us see what his article on a defensive mindset; IT says about his concern for accuracy. Introduction Mark Hurd of Oracle wrote the article How to Ditch the Defensive Mindset in Business Technology on April 18, 2019. This article showed features of being written…