Sabre S/4HANA Case Study

ByPrimary Researcher

Executive Summary

  • This is the Sabre S/4HANA, which is part of our research study.
  • We evaluate the accuracy of this case study.

Introduction

Sabre is a travel information system. Sabre is one of the few implementations of S/4HANA in what SAP calls “cloud,” but more accurately described as hosted, aka the private cloud.

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  • This is published by a research entity, not some lowbrow entity that is part of the SAP ecosystem. 
  • Second, no one paid for this article to be written, and it is not pretending to inform you while being rigged to sell you software or consulting services. Unlike nearly every other article you will find from Google on this topic, it has had no input from any company's marketing or sales department. As you are reading this article, consider how rare this is. The vast majority of information on the Internet on SAP is provided by SAP, which is filled with false claims and sleazy consulting companies and SAP consultants who will tell any lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts -- who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

Real Cloud Implementation?

For the implementation, Sabre used Virtustream for the private cloud. But this implementation can never be multi-tenant, so it is therefore not a cloud. A private cloud is SAP’s way of renaming hosted to something that sounds closer to being a real cloud. There is a massive difference between a true SaaS/Cloud implementation and a hosted or private cloud.

Implementations of software must be multi-tenant and quite a few other criteria to qualify as SaaS/Cloud. This is important because if they are not, then the implementing company cannot expect to receive the benefits that have been well documented from true SaaS or cloud applications. SAP’s converge of the cloud is highly deceptive, and most of it is directed to confusing and deceiving both Wall Street and its customers. In many instances, SAP is either cloud washing, as is covered in the Brightwork article, Is the HANA Cloud Platform Designed for Cloud Washing? or actively attempting to undermine the definition of cloud, as is covered in the article Why SAP Wants to Undermine the Cloud.

Overall, there is little-published information about the implementation. Most of the information is inspirational in nature rather than helping the reader learn what happened at Sabre on the S/4HANA implementation. This case study shows the imprints of SAP marketing.

This S/4HANA implementation went live in April 2016 (calculated based upon other dates provided in articles).

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Conclusion

This case study lacks credibility. The study has very obviously been aggressively manipulated by SAP’s marketing to pitch S/4HANA to other customers essentially.

This article is part of The S/4HANA Implementation Study. Please see that study for the overall conclusions.