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… over twenty years. The downsides of relying upon this construct are about to get worse. Here is why:

Post-ERP Applications: SAP’s non-ERP applications have not been value-added to companies that implemented them. And we have several decades of data points on this fact.
S/4HANA and HANA: SAPs new ERP system S4 is not compelling, and its new database, HANA, is not differentiated from the competition.
SAP Support Decline: SAP support has dramatically declined in the past ten years and is now mostly outsourced to the lowest cost countries, pushing the maintenance burden to SAP customers …

… users don’t directly interact with SAP, the company contended that it was also entitled to named user licenses for those end customers—all 5,800 of them. – Constellation Research

This is a highly controversial case as it deals with indirect access. I covered indirect access as it pertains to HANA in my last article. However, right after that article was written, the judgment was announced in the UK. The case has left a lot of people scratching their heads. I followed the judge’s logic, and she tried to get an equitable judgment. However, I believe the judge made …