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  • How to Understand The Misdirection on SAP Change Management

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    Executive Summary

    SAP uses change management to pivot away from the customization required for their system.
    SAP does this to keep customers from learning.

    Video Introduction: SAP Change Management
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    SAP frequently uses change management to control perceptions on projects, including the fact that they constantly sell their software to customers with a poor match for their application. SAP proposes that all of the world’s best practices are contained within its applications, and any deviation from their applications is a deviation from best practices. Proposing change management is …

  • How ASUG Lost its Way and Sold Out to SAP

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    Executive Summary

    ASUG is not a user group, so much as yet another marketing arm for SAP.
    We cover how ASUG poses as one thing while it is the opposite in practice.

    Video Introduction: How ASUG Lost its Way and Sold Out to SAP
    https://youtu.be/C5invEQCAbE
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    ASUG began its life as a user group, which meant that it represented the interests of SAP customers. However, it did not take long for ASUG to become captured by SAP. ASUG now functions as simply a marketing arm of SAP, and the information …

  • How to Best Understand SAP's Multicloud Announcement

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    Executive Summary

    SAP announced the “multicloud,” which is a massive change in strategy for SAP.
    SAP makes several claims in the announcement that are either false or can be classified as “word salad.”

    Video Introduction: How to Best Understand SAP’s Multicloud Announcement
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    This article covers the announcement made at SAPPHIRE regarding SAP, offering what it called multi-cloud options. SAP announced the “multicloud,” which has been used by SAP to try to bolster its credibility regarding the cloud. What IT media entities did not observe is that …

  • Observing SAP's Disclaimer on Statements

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    Executive Summary

    SAP has a disclaimer when it publishes documents.
    We analyze this disclaimer.

    Introduction
    One of the major issues of SAP documents is that while the statements are quite assertive, every one of the documents contains a legal disclaimer that states that none of the information provided is reliable or should be relied upon.
    Our References for This Article
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    Notice of Lack of Financial Bias: We have no financial ties to SAP or any other entity mentioned in this article.

    This …

  • The Problem with the Term Digital Transformation

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    Executive Summary

    Digital transformation is a misapplied term that has been popularized by SAP, but which makes no sense. There is a significant problem using the word to describe IT implementations.

    This chameleon can transform itself. And it can do so without the benefit of any digital technologies.
    Introduction
    Digital transformation is a common term used in the IT space and, in particular, in the SAP space. It is a recent term and also a highly problematic term. I now come across the statement that some SAP application was implemented for digital transformation or part of a digital transformation program …

  • How SAP Controls Perceptions with Customer Numbers

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    Executive Summary

    SAP has created press releases and related media coverage of customer SAP usage numbers.
    How customers, prospects, media outlets, and Wall Street tend to interpret SAP usage numbers.
    How faulty SAP usage numbers contradict reality

    Video Introduction: How SAP Controls Perceptions with Customer Numbers
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    Many announcements on the part of SAP include releasing the number of customers that a particular SAP application has acquired in the most recent quarter. If you use these numbers from SAP, you will come to inaccurate conclusions about what is happening …

  • Why the SAP Cloud Platform is Not an Open PaaS Platform

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    Executive Summary

    SAP has made several aggrandized statements about SAP Cloud Platform.
    One of the biggest issues with the SCP is that it is not an open platform.

    Video Introduction: Why the SAP Cloud Platform is Not an Open PaaS Platform
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    We explained previously why the SAP Cloud Platform is specifically designed to perform both cloud washing and HANA washing in previous articles. But this is only one of the uses of the SAP Cloud Platform to SAP. However, something else that is misleading about the HANA Cloud …

  • How to Understand Why SAP Will Never Support SOA

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    Executive Summary

    What is SOA, and why SAP put out misleading information about SOA?
    SAP’s inaccurate books on SOA.

    SAP has some fairy dust they would like to sell you…. it called SOA.
    What Is SOA?
    SOA stands for service-oriented architecture. A service-oriented architecture is a software development model that is the complete opposite of the entire SAP development model. Under the SAP development model, most of the SAP products are written in ABAP. Secondly, the applications are only designed to inter-operate with other SAP applications, and they do so through interfaces that have specific mappings …

  • How to Understand SAP's Advice on S4HANA Code Remediation

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    … process after the initial data has been extracted from the SAP system.
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    Conclusion

    The information published by SAP on code migration is not well formulated and filled with contradictions and bad advice with more of a sales/marketing orientation than a technical orientation. In the wide-ranging SAP analyses that we have performed, this is one of the most confusing areas. SAP’s terrible explanations about code remediation pose a major risk to S/4HANA implementations. 
    Its mini-project is simply learning the tools and the effort involved in code remediation. One of the critical topics to …

  • The Brightwork SAP Analytics Research Based Assessment

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    Expanding Section: Oracle’s Overselling into Accounts

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    Oracle’s growth outside of acquisitions has been tepid for several years.
    A limiting factor on future Oracle growth is the Oracle software position of customers after years of some of the most aggressive sales quotas set in the enterprise software space and the implication on the applications and databases that are already sold into the Oracle account base. The following table is just a few examples of techniques used by Oracle to meet previous quarters.

    Previous Oracle Sales Tactics
    Oracle sales tactics that have been …