Executive Summary The reasons offered for Bill McDermott to step down are highly questionable. We evaluate the official story and project the most likely real reason. Introduction On October 10, Bill McDermott announced he was stepping down as CEO of SAP. The announcement caught virtually everyone that follows SAP by surprise, and the explanations for…
Executive Summary SAP has specific motivations for enforcing the fallacious concept of indirect access. SAP intends to use indirect access as a toll booth for customers locked into SAP. Introduction to Indirect Access License Charges This article will focus on an issue that is very much under the radar: license audits. So what are license…
Executive Summary There is very little coverage of which politicians are supporting further enlarging the H1-B program. We analyze the politicians that are c0-sponsoring the bill. Introduction There is an immigration bill referred to as H.R.1044. This bill is close to impossible to determine what the bill will do by reading the bill. This is…
Executive Summary Larry Ellison enjoyed observing how SAP, Salesforce, and Workday pay large amounts of money for Oracle database licenses. We cover how PostgresSQL is an Oracle replacement. Introduction to Oracle’s’s Outrageous Statements On Jun. 17, 2015, Business Insider published the article Larry Ellison: SAP and Salesforce pay Oracle a LOT of money. In this…
Executive Summary SAP co-opted the term machine learning without having done much work in the area because it was “hot.” Many of SAP’s promises around predictive analytics have been transferred to machine learning. Video Introduction: How Real the SAP Machine Learning and Data Science Story is Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) The…
Executive Summary Audits are big business for both SAP and Oracle. However, they hide the percentage from customers and Wall Street. In this article, we discuss the percentage of revenues obtained from these audits. Introduction Neither SAP nor Oracle can achieve their revenue objectives using reasonable means — and this is where the software audit…
Executive Summary IT consulting companies collude with vendors to provide vendor-controlled information to their clients. This behavior has a precedent in the book and movies Lord of the Rings. Introduction The Fellowship of the Ring visits the Rohan IT department. To their surprise, they find that IT consulting firms have entirely taken over the mind…
Executive Summary Consulting firms and vendors present packaged software as if it is always the right decision. This article questions that viewpoint and addresses the financial bias of those that propose it. Introduction The overall software industry has become incredibly oriented around packaged solutions over custom development. The primary reason for this is not any…
Executive Summary There is a common problem in the SAP space with consultants who work for companies that they know are dishonest. This article describes one such employee case study. Introduction Curiously, so many consultants that work for major SAP consulting firms think that their employer lies, but they continue to work for them anyway….
Executive Summary SAP has a series of analysts that will reliably support their interests. One of these analysts is Josh Greenbaum. Introduction SAP has numerous analysts who are in some way financially connected to them, and that will say anything for them. These are the same analysts quoted in TechTarget when they want to run…