Executive Summary SAP continually overstates the number of S/4HANA customers that are live. SAP has misled customers how much cost and time S/4HANA is for ECC customers minimizing the problems with S/4HANA. Video Introduction: How SAP Sucker Punched Customers with S/4HANA Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP’s S/4HANA is a curious product….
Executive Summary SAP has been forced to move HANA into the background of its marketing focus for various reasons. Trends shifted away from proprietary databases towards open source databases. Marketing claims about HANA being groundbreaking turned out to be false. HANA had no offerings that gave it an advantage over competing solutions, and it proved…
Executive Summary TechTarget produced an article with contributors of varying accuracy on S/4HANA and indirect access. We analyze the accuracy of each. Introduction In this article, we will review the accuracy of TechTarget from its article SAP S/4HANA Cloud and indirect access will dominate 2018. Something to remember is that TechTarget is not a real…
Executive Summary SAP made many claims about HANA, but what SAP did with HANA is reinventing the wheel upon analysis. We cover SAP proposals ranging from code pushdown to in-memory computing to the fictitious backstory for HANA. Video Introduction: HANA as a Derivative Product Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) Innovation has been…
Executive Summary ASUG wrote several inaccurate HANA statements and has provided really broken logic regarding SAP being a customer’s long-term partner, stating that other customers should move away from other vendors. One thing that ASUG will not address is the TCO of HANA. Video Introduction: How Accurate Was ASUG About Migrating to HANA? Text Introduction…
Executive Summary DSAG, the German-speaking SAP user group’s survey of S/4HANA adoptions, showed important distinctions from what SAP has been reporting to Wall Street. We analyze this discrepancy. Introduction We have been saying for some time that SAP’s numbers on S/4HANA do not add up. When perusing a survey by DSAG, which is the German-speaking…
Executive Summary What SAP said about all non-HANA DB’s legacy. The truth about all non-HANA DB’s legacy? What SAP Said About All Non-HANA DB’s Legacy SAP has repeatedly stated that all non-HANA databases that compete with HANA are legacy. Our References for This Article If you want to see our references for this article and…
Executive Summary What SAP said about only SAP HANA being an ACID database. The truth about only SAP HANA being an ACID database? What SAP Said About Only SAP HANA Being an ACID Database SAP made some strange statements about HANA being the only ACID database. Or that it was the single ACID database with…
Executive Summary SAP proposes that the fact HANA is an ACID compliant database is a new thing for databases. SAP is attempting to trick customers regarding fundamental concepts regarding databases. Introduction SAP has a long history of using the terms inaccurately, and they mostly never get called out in IT media outlets. In this article, we…
Executive Summary What SAP said about S/4HANA in the cloud is easily extended. In this article, we fact check the accuracy of S/4HANA in the cloud is easily extended. What SAP Said About S/4HANA in the Cloud Being Easily Extended SAP released a major paper titled SAP S/4HANA Extensibility for Customers and Partners. In this…