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  • How Accurate Was SAP on the Sybase Acquisition?

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    SAP acquired Sybase in 2010, and Sybase has become almost invisible ever since.
    We review what SAP said and IT analysts’ coverage of the Sybase acquisition.

    Introduction
    In 2010, SAP acquired Sybase. This was before HANA had been introduced. Within a year, SAP promoted the idea that it had developed a massive innovation in in-memory and columnar database design. Sybase had a pre-existing product called Sybase IQ that was columnar. SAP barely marketed Sybase IQ or referred to it and began deemphasizing the database versus HANA and positioning it as an archival database to HANA. You …

  • Angela Merkel Loves Herself Some Hasso Plattner Institute

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    Angela Merkel and other high placed German politicians love the Hasso Plattner Institute or HPI.
    We covert the Real Story with the Hasso Plattner Institute?

    Video Introduction: Angela Merkel Loves Herself Some Hasso Plattner Institute
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    It is always interesting to find something that the participants thought was a good thing, but it is a cause for concern when viewed by others. This article will review just such an item, which is the listing of powerful German politicians on the Hasso Plattner Institute website. One would …

  • How Accurate Was SAP on their Google Alliance?

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    SAP made many statements regarding its collaboration with Google and its Google alliance. It proposed that Lumira can save files to Google Sheets, that SuccessFactors allows for hyperlinking and that SAP competitors have magically become more complicated.
    In this article, we review SAP’s statements for accuracy.

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    In the ComputerWorld article SAP CEO Touts Tighter Google Ties, SAP proposed a strong tie to Google. SAP made a series of bizarre statements in this announcement including …

  • How to Best Understand the SAP Digital Transformation Navigator

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    Digital transformation was adopted by software vendors and consulting companies that place the process as the desired outcome.
    Ding Ding Ding….we have a new Golden Pinocchio Award Winner!

    Video Introduction: Term Digital Transformation
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    After analyzing various methodologies, tools, or assistive items offered by consulting companies and SAP, it is curious how often the item in question ends up being merely another way for the consulting company or SAP to get the customer to do what they want. SAP’s Rapid Development Solutions (as we covered …

  • How to Understand The Myth of the Golden Age of SAP

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    SAP consultants like to talk about a “Golden Age” of SAP, where SAP added a great deal of value to customers.
    We show how this is a myth and how this myth is used.

    Introduction
    In this article, we will cover a common assumption promoted by SAP proponents. This is the proposal that SAP was, at some point, a company that added a lot of value to customers. This is what we call the myth of the golden age of SAP.
    How and When the Myth is Used
    Over time even with nearly total control over IT media …

  • The Amazing Support Percentage of Revenues for SAP & Oracle

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    SAP and Oracle extract high support costs from their customers.
    SAP and Oracle also receive extremely high margins for this support.

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    SAP and Oracle are very aggressive in promoting how well they are doing financially and in their technology. However, something that receives little attention is how high the support percentage of their revenues is and how much they rely upon their incomes for their profitability. Both SAP and Oracle have support margins …

  • A Summary of Some of the Pitfalls of Software Partnerships with SAP

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    The reality of the SAP Partnership Program is far different than what is usually presented.
    The SAP Consulting partners act as arms of SAP, rig software selections, and help with SAP account control.

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    SAP has the most extensive vendor partnership program of any software vendor worldwide. This Program presents the following characteristics to SAP customers and the outside world. SAP has enormous control over its partners, and the arrangement is anti-competitive and corrupt. Once in a partnership with SAP, SAP has approval over the …

  • Whatever Happened to the SAP and Apple Partnership?

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    Fortune wrote an article on the SAP and Apple partnership.
    We review the accuracy of Fortune.

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    On May 05, 2016, Fortune published the article Apple and SAP Team Up for Blockbuster Partnership. You will see our review of the accuracy of this Fortune article. The announcement was curious because it was made after SAP had put so much marketing effort behind its Fiori UI. Fiori was mobile-first UI, which created a significant question as …

  • How Accurate is SAP's Page on APO?

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    SAP provides information on APO; however, how accurate was this information?
    What is APO’s ROI and its history with constraint planning?

    Introduction
    SAP has a page on their website which explains and markets SAP APO. We review this page for accuracy.
    Our References for This Article
    If you want to see our references for this article and other related Brightwork articles, see this link.
    Notice of Lack of Financial Bias: We have no financial ties to SAP or any other entity mentioned in this article.

    This is published by a research entity, not some lowbrow entity that …

  • How Accurate is SAP on SAP HANA Cloud Integration?

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    SAP has made strange statements around HANA Cloud Integration.
    We cover the accuracy of SAP’s proposals around the HCI.

    Video Introduction: How Accurate is SAP on SAP HANA Cloud Integration?
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    SAP often presents the benefits of SAP HANA Cloud integration. SAP makes claims for integration being “out of the box” for its SAP Cloud Platform, and they claim, without evidence that their cloud platform reduces integration costs. Even though SAP has the highest integration problems of any major software vendor, SAP presents their cloud …