Executive Summary Forrester was paid off by SAP to create a false TCO study that is inaccurate. SAP fed a passive Forrester TCO information on HANA. Introduction SAP paid Forrester to produce a fake TCO study of HANA published in April 2014. This study had no validity and passively used information provided by SAP without…
Executive Summary SAP’s original plan for dominating the database market with HANA was overly optimistic. The software was given a massive marketing and PR push. Video Introduction: Changes in Policy Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been communicating that it will replace Oracle DB with HANA on a mass scale. This…
Executive Summary Most of the sources that covered HANA were wrong. Only a few were right. In this article, we cover who was right and who was wrong. Video Introduction: Who Was Right and Who Was Wrong on SAP HANA? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP pushed the idea of HANA very…
Executive Summary SAP has created misleading impressions regarding HANA’s growth. We fact-checked SAP by using the independent DB-Engines ranking. Video Introduction: Fact Checking HANA’s Growth Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been proposing that HANA is the fast growing database of all time. Part of this puffery is simply designed to…
Executive Summary Gartner has made several bizarre statements about S/4HANA, but which makes sense when you figure out how much money Gartner gets from SAP. S/4HANA Cloud has most of its live customers as SAP consulting companies. Introduction to the Magic Quadrant When they scored SAP quite low in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Cloud Financial, they…
Executive Summary SAP has promoted HANA as connected to Hadoop and Big Data, however, this is untrue. SAP would like to “piggyback” on Hadoop, but Big Data does not need HANA. Introduction to the HANA and Big Data Reality SAP has been proposing HANA for a new purpose, namely to serve as the database for…
Executive Summary Indirect access has been used to drive customers to HANA. We review how this strategy works and how it has not been covered in IT media. Introduction Indirect access is generally focused on applications and the best-known application of indirect access by SAP. And if you read articles on the topic of indirect…
Executive Summary While there is a question as to whether HANA is appropriate for an enterprise data warehouse, SAP has a strategy for discounting HANA that connects to their overall strategy. HANA and BW can be compared to the enterprise data warehouse. Video Introduction: HANA for EDW Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)…
Executive Summary SAP has a page on HANA, which makes some “interesting” claims. We evaluate the accuracy of this page. Introduction In this article, we will review SAP’s HANA page and check it for accuracy. Our References for This Article If you want to see our references for this article and other related Brightwork articles,…
Executive Summary 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? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP often presents the benefits of SAP HANA Cloud integration. SAP makes claims for integration…