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  • How SAP IBP aka "Zoolander" is Going All in on Trendy

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … technology turns out to be mobile.
    HANA: HANA is a massively problematic database that is significantly more expensive than alternatives (not only in TCO licensing). People that have pushed HANA have specialized in being wrong about HANA, as I covered in How to Deflect That You Were Wrong About HANA. HANA was Hasso’s baby, and HANA‘s belly flop (in reality, not the marketing hype) is one of many reasons it’s time for Hasso to ride off into the sunset.

    The SAP Cloud Platform is a cloud prestige item and is little used. Its nothing to get …

  • Introduction to SAP APO CIF

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … run. In this way, CIF has more in common with SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) (formerly known as SAP NetWeaver XI) than with any of the other SAP SCM applications. But we’ll discuss CIF in this book because it focuses specifically on SAP ERP to SAP SCM integration.
    We explained previously why the SAP Cloud Platform is specifically designed to perform both cloud washing and HANA washing in previous articles. But this is only one of the uses of the SAP Cloud Platform to SAP. However, something else that is misleading about the HANA Cloud Platform is

  • How to Interpret The IaaS Model vs Traditional Enterprise Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … avoid this situation, DynamoDB adaptive capacity enables your application to continue to perform read and write operations in a hot partition without being throttled, provided that your table’s total provisioned capacity is not exceeded. With adaptive capacity, DynamoDB becomes more tolerant of imbalanced workloads.”
    Something I like is the elastic nature of the memory. So I wrote the following article on the problem with HANA sizing.
    In that article, I explained that SAP was actively deceiving customers as to the sizing of HANA to bring down the anticipated price (and setting up a big surprise down the road). As

  • Warning of a Potential Extension of SAP Indirect Access to Basis

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    This is a warning of the potential extension of SAP indirect access to basis.

    Introduction
    Indirect access was first applied to SAP applications and then was extended to HANA. SAP has been very effective in using indirect access to coerce software sales out of customers. Therefore it is a natural question as to whether SAP would extend indirect access and indirect access charges to other parts of SAP.
    See our references for this article and related articles at this link.
    Basis
    Basis is the application server of SAP. Accessing the application server has not come up as a …

  • How Real is The Oracle Automated Database?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … never quite delivered to its promise until very recently. With the advent of the latest version of AI, neural networks with machine learning, we are doing things that hitherto have been considered unimaginable by computers.”
    Oracle, which is known as being the most expensive database to maintain short of SAP HANA (which has enormous maintenance overhead), Ellison has this to say.
    “On an Oracle database running at Amazon, will cost you 5 times what it costs you to run in the Oracle Cloud because it will take you 5 times the amount of computer to do the exact same thing …

  • SAP's Recycled Indirect Access Damage Control for 2018

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Coerce Purchases of Lagging Products
    A major aspect of indirect access is driving customers to products that SAP is on the hook to show gains to Wall Street. These are trumped-up poor value products that you can’t make any value argument for (S/4HANA is still incomplete, and HANA is worse than what it would replace). And forget the customers. Let’s focus on what is important.
    McDermott and Enslin and Luca Mucic, and many others at SAP have large numbers of stock options they must exercise at a high price because checking Outlook, lying, and attending meetings …

  • How Accurate Was SAP on the Sybase Acquisition?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    SAP acquired Sybase in 2010, and Sybase has become almost invisible ever since.
    We review what SAP said and IT analysts’ coverage of the Sybase acquisition.

    Introduction
    In 2010, SAP acquired Sybase. This was before HANA had been introduced. Within a year, SAP promoted the idea that it had developed a massive innovation in in-memory and columnar database design. Sybase had a pre-existing product called Sybase IQ that was columnar. SAP barely marketed Sybase IQ or referred to it and began deemphasizing the database versus HANA and positioning it as an archival database to HANA. You …

  • Angela Merkel Loves Herself Some Hasso Plattner Institute

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … a person who is primarily concerned with what is true over what is profit maximizing ends up worth $20 billion? 
    Any research performed by the Hasso Plattner Institute must be consistent with Hasso Plattner’s outlines and with SAP. However, the problem is that Hasso Plattner has routinely exaggerated what HANA can do (as we cover in many articles, but one being When Articles Exaggerate HANA‘s Benefits. Both SAP and Hasso Plattner have lied about “inventing” HANA, as we covered in the article Did Hasso Plattner and His Ph.D. Students Invent HANA?
    What Does Angela Merkel Know About …

  • How Accurate Was SAP on their Google Alliance?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Android for Work. It recently released SAP Mobile Secure 2.7 with Android for Work support.
    All of SAP’s Competitors (Magically?) Becoming More Complex?
    “Much of McDermott’s speech continued the “run simple” theme SAP has been articulating for some time already as part of its marketing for its Hana in-memory data platform.
    “As SAP sees its competitors getting more complex, it’s clearly trying to establish its own turf at the other end of the spectrum,” said Robert Eastman, a research manager with IDC. “Whether customers also feel it’s simple remains to be seen.”
    What evidence …

  • How Accurate Was SAP on In Memory Computing?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    For years SAP has stated that on HANA and in-memory computing.
    In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim. 

    What SAP Said About SAP on In-Memory Computing
    When SAP introduced, HANA has continuously claimed that HANA was utterly different than what had come before it. It claimed that a primary reason for this was that HANA was “in memory.” This led to other vendors copying SAP’s marketing as SAP convinced many customers that databases should be running entirely in memory, even though HANA never ran entirely in memory but simply had a large …