Executive Summary SAP has made exaggerated claims regarding the usage of S/4HANA and Fiori. In this article, we estimate the actual usage, which is quite distinct from these claims. Introduction SAP has been releasing false numbers regarding S4 HANA and Fiori’s uptake and usage for several years now. This is driven by the desire to…
Executive Summary SAP and SAP consulting firms have made a large number of false claims around HANA. When confronted with these claims, HANA proponents continually change the topic and deflect other HANA claims that are also false. Video Introduction: Deflection of HANA Claims Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) There is a popular…
Executive Summary Hasso Plattner, Steve Lucas, Ron Enslin, Vishal Sikka, and John Appleby provide oodles of false information around HANA’s performance. We cover the impact of SAP marketing on benchmarking on HANA performance. Video Introduction: What is the Actual Performance of SAP HANA? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) I covered the topic…
Executive Summary With S/4HANA, SAP has changed the policy of ERP database independence. There are significant problems with SAP charging for an upgrade like S/4HANA, including that it is a forced purchase, undermines the support contract, and locks customers into a database with indirect access liabilities. Introduction The marketing blast on S/4HANA has been so…
Executive Summary SAP HANA has an enormous number of exaggerated articles. We cover the accuracy of the proposals contained in these articles. Video Introduction: SAP HANA Exaggerations Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) What became apparent in reviewing articles on SAP HANA is that they tend to have a high “aspirational content” ratio….
Executive Summary We analyze S/4HANA’s regarding the S/4HANA roadmap. SAP has greatly misled customers and prospects regarding the maturity of S/4HANA. Video Introduction: S/4HANA Roadmap Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has been releasing strange information about the S/4HANA roadmap since S/4HANA was first released. Because there is so much marketing hyperbole…
Executive Summary The reason that HANA, in the name of S/4HANA, tells us interesting things about what SAP is communicating to customers. It is unheard of to place the database in the name of the application. Simple Finance and Simple Logistics are immature applications. S/4HANA’s Simple Logistics missed its release date. Video Introduction: S/4HANA Naming…
Executive Summary SAP has cut off its customers’ options by restricting S/4HANA to HANA. This is limiting the uptake of S/4HANA. It brings up the question of whether SAP will stay with the restriction of S/4HANA to just HANA. Introduction to S/4HANA Being Restricted to HANA I have concluded that SAP will have to significantly…
Executive Summary SAP has been trying to move HANA to the cloud. We will explain the implications of this movement. Video Introduction: HANA Cloud Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) There is a lot of information of questionable accuracy given out on the HANA topic that is provided to the market by SAP,…
Executive Summary SAP markets HANA far differently from Teradata or Tableau. We evaluate these approaches. Introduction In a previous article, Has SAP’s Relentless SAP Push Paid Off? I cover whether SAP’s HANA major marketing push has provided the intended benefits? However, in this article, I offer several examples of how top competitors market their analytics. Our References…