A Expansion Section: Public Versus Private Case Study Implementation Duration Differences Posted by Shaun Snapp on May 29, 2019 The average implementation duration for public case studies is considerably shorter than for private case studies. SAP marketing inconsistently reported the implementation duration. This is “cherry picking” the data. Secondly, many of the claimed implementation durations…
A Expanding Section: The Missing Details Posted on May 29, 2019 In addition to the public case studies above, there are also case studies published on SAP’s website. The issue is that when SAP publishes a case study they either provide a video, which contains a lot of praise of the solution, but very few…
A Expanding Section: Interpreting the Public Case Studies Posted by Shaun Snapp on May 29, 2019 The public case studies are by far the large percentage of the overall case studies. Several things stand out about the public case studies. The Limited Scope of Functionality Implemented In all cases, the implementations are small portions of…
A Expanding Section: What is the Definition of a Software Customer? Posted on May 29, 2019 Unknown to many who follow software vendors, being a “customer” only means that the customer is in possession of a license for S/4HANA. Now in many cases, the number of customers that have a license of something means more…
A Expanding Section: Why this Study Appears to Different from IT Media Coverage Posted on May 29, 2019 This estimate may appear shocking to many readers, and it is in comparison to the estimates provided by many entities. However, there are no independent entities that actually track S/4HANA implementation figures. ASUG and SAPInsider have both…
A Expanding Section: The Case Study Problem Posted on May 29, 2019 SAP has published a number of case studies for S/4HANA that show it as live. However, in a study funded by SAP and published by Forrester, SAP was only able to come up with three customers for Forrester to use in the study….
A Expanding Section: ECC’s Continued Development Posted on May 29, 2019 When S/4HANA was first released, SAP stated that ECC development was finished. However, SAP has backtracked on this — with the vast majority of customers running ECC, it was not feasible to simply stop updating ECC. Category: S/4HANA Permalink
A Expanding Section: Employment Posted on May 29, 2019 The job listings don’t come anywhere near to matching SAP’s current estimate of 3,500 live implementations. There will be job listings for any technology, even if that technology is entirely lacking in implementations because there is presales work that needs to be done. And even failed…
A Expanding Section: The Private Case Studies Posted on May 28, 2019 These are case studies that have come to us through our network. The sources for this case studies include consultants who are either involved in S/4HANA implementations or involved in analyses of S/4HANA that companies moved some way along the process of considering…
A Expanding Section: Missing Public Case Studies Posted on May 28, 2019 Missing case studies are companies that have been announced to have selected S/4HANA, but then no information about the project or the go-live can be found. What happened to these projects is anyone’s guess. These are case studies that were caught between the…