Executive Summary Gartner is extremely powerful and has a corrupt business model where Gartner never declares its conflicts of interest. Find out about the reality of Gartner’s business model. Video Introduction: The Reality of Gartner Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) At Brightwork Research & Analysis, we refer to Gartner as a “Rubix…
Executive Summary John Appleby of Bluefin Solutions has been a provider of inaccurate information around HANA. Questions surround many of Appleby’s claims around HANA, including that SAP has no future on HANA, how HANA will enable a new class of applications and whether HANA will somehow connect uniquely SAP Cloud Platform. Video Introduction: Analysis of…
Executive Summary The enterprise software market is far less efficient than generally assumed. We cover the basics of market efficiency and how they do not apply to enterprise software. Introduction to the Software Market Any selection of enterprise software happens within the context of the enterprise software market. Most people who write about the enterprise…
Executive Summary The basics of IT risk management are routinely ignored on projects. We cover what they are and how they can be followed. Introduction To understand how to manage IT project risks, we must first level set on what we mean by risk. First, there are many different degrees of success or failure on…
Executive Summary Rimini Street created a presentation on ERP support. We evaluated this presentation for accuracy. Introduction Rimini Street wrote the article 10 Telltale Signs of that it is Time to Change in Your ERP Strategy. This is a document that focuses on the history of ERP and ERP support. It seemed worthy of analysis….
Executive Summary SAP controls the IT media system with a combination of advertising and paid placements. IT media entities do not declare their income source from SAP. Introduction I recently wrote an article that is a critique of our IT media system in the article The IT Media and the Fake News Debate. Increasingly what…
Executive Summary SAP proposes that ERP and Big Data should reside on the same database. We evaluate the reasonableness of this proposal for using one giant database. Video Introduction: SAP’s Big Idea: ERP Data and Big Data on the Same Database? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been proposing that there…
Executive Summary Gartner writes on SAP indirect access. However, SAP also has enormous conflicts of interest in analyzing indirect access as it receives so much money from SAP. The question is, how is Gartner on the topic of SAP indirect access. Introduction In a previous article titled Taking A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Indirect Access, I explained…
Executive Summary SAP uses time constraints in a highly underhanded and effective way against their customers. Learn how SAP does this and what SAP customers can expect. Introduction One is the interesting features of indirect access that SAP does not want its customers to know about. And, of course, all of the consulting companies help…
Executive Summary Leonardo is an IoT/Big Data “solution” marketed far too early by SAP. We evaluate Leonardo’s exaggerated claims and how SAP has attempted to blend SAP with IoT in the minds of customers. Video Introduction: The Real Story of Leonardo Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has created tremendous hype around…