Executive Summary Motley Fool’s published an article on how SAP would overtake SAP in the cloud. Motley Fool’s analysis of Larry Ellison, internal growth, and HANA being related to the cloud are entirely illogical. Introduction On Mar 1, 2015, the article Oracle Corporation Falls Victim to Hubris as SAP Overtakes Its Cloud Business was published….
Executive Summary SAP made a large number of inaccurate statements to Wall Street analysts in the Q2 2017 earnings call. We cover the accuracy of SAP on this earnings call. Introduction On July 20th, 2017, SAP held its Q2 call with analysts. This article is an analysis of some of the information provided by SAP…
Executive Summary E3 Magazine proposes that diversity is the way to go with databases. We evaluate the accuracy of this article. Introduction In Mat, 2017, e3zine produced the document titled Diversity is the Way to Go. In this article, we will evaluate the accuracy of this e3zine article. Our References for This Article If you…
Executive Summary SAM software helps software companies manage their licenses and control predation on the part of software vendors. Indirect access, but type 2 indirect access, is a type of license control enforced by SAP. Introduction This article will analyze Snow Software’s article on whether it is possible to determine your internet access exposure. Article…
Executive Summary Fortune wrote an article on the SAP and Apple partnership. We review the accuracy of Fortune. Video Introduction: Whatever Happened to the SAP and Apple Partnership? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) On May 05, 2016, Fortune published the article Apple and SAP Team Up for Blockbuster Partnership. You will see…
Executive Summary SAP made amazing claims around Vora, which connects HANA to Hadoop. We analyze how accurate SAP has been on Vora. Introduction SAP has been proposing HANA for a new purpose, namely to serve as the database for the customer’s SAP Big Data. Is HANA the right choice for Big Data? That is it…
Executive Summary SAP’s produced a highly misleading 2017 white paper on indirect access. In the white paper, SAP introduced a new policy for SAP ECC customers and S/4HANA. We analyze SAP’s proposal regarding indirect static read scenarios and Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P). Video Introduction: Brightwork Analysis of SAP’s 2017 White Paper on Indirect Access…
Executive Summary Wall Street continually pushes companies to be Cloud, but without understanding how cloud revenues work. We cover what Wall Street is missing in their analysis. Introduction This article will cover Wall Street’s perspective on SaaS and what the real story is with the shift in the commercial software market. What Wall Street Interprets…
Executive Summary Forrester has one of the most insane Big Data or data warehouse rankings (we can’t tell which) that we have ever seen. Reviewing this ranking is its form of comedy and indicator of how little Forrester knows about the topic. Introduction In Forrester’s “Big Data Warehouse” 2017 ranking, Forrester made some peculiar decisions related…
Executive Summary SAP has an enormous product database of software. We count and categorize the SAP software product database by how active or popular each of the SAP products is. Introduction At Brightwork Research & Analysis, we spend many hours per week researching SAP. However, it is a full-time job keeping up with SAP’s products…