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For years SAP has said that SAP was finished on Oracle.
In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim. 

Video Introduction: What SAP or an “SAP Spokesman” Said About SAP Being Finished on Oracle
https://youtu.be/WW0zgI60-1s
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SAP pushed HANA extremely hard to customers most often by making exaggerated claims about HANA. Most of these claims had to do with exaggerating HANA‘s performance, although SAP exaggerated other aspects of HANA, such as its TCO. SAP implied that Oracle had a limited future running SAP. But …

… About S/4HANA’s Data Model?
We disputed these claims in the 2016 article Does SAP S/4HANA Have a Simplified Data Model and Faster Reconciliation?
And in the 2017 article, How Much Has HANA Really Been Simplified?
Falling into the category of “pants on fire” lie not is the primary claim. That S/4HANA has a simplified data model false (some dimensions of a column-oriented database are simplified, but others are made more complex, and overall the complexity with HANA is far higher). Furthermore, all of the ancillary claims related to the implementation of a business process …

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SAP made exaggerated claims around Ariba for moving Ariba into its historical weakness, which is direct procurement.
Important things happened after the Ariba acquisition in terms of its influence on most core SAP projects.

Video Introduction: What SAP Said About Ariba Being for Direct Procurement
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SAP acquired Ariba in 2012, and it was touted as a major coup for SAP, as we covered in the article Problems with Diginomica, Steve Lucas on HANA, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Azure.” Steve Lucas stated that quote – No enterprise software company …

… corporate software powered by SAP’s HANA database technology.”
What Actually Happened with the Apple and SAP Partnership?
SAP did release an SDK for iOS.
However, outside of this fundamental and low effort initiative, the iOS is little seen on SAP projects. Newsflash to SAP, no SDK is necessary for iOS. Companies are doing just fine developing in iOS, and SAP is not successful in mobility. As is covered in the article How Accurate Was SAP Being Number One in Mobility Due to Sybase Acquisition?
This is a repeating story for SAP. iOS has no natural connection to SAP …

… analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

What Actually Happened with Fiori and Personas Along the Stated Dimensions?
First of all, SAP did not make Fiori widely available (Personas is irrelevant to this discussion as it was for all purposes discontinued). SAP could, of course, have done this. It could have offered Fiori for “free,” that is, to customers already paying 22%+ in support to SAP, but they decided to restrict Fiori to HANA.
How is that making something “widely available …

… S/4HANA and HANA as simplifying SAP. Experiences coming in from all over the globe demonstrate that S/4HANA and HANA are more complex than the products they replaced (ECC in S/4HANA and Oracle, IBM, and MS databases in the case of HANA). We covered the topic of Run Simple in the article Is SAP’s Running Simple Real?
Run Simple was all the rage at SAP for roughly two years but mostly dropped from SAP marketing. It had become a punchline among SAP consultants and was not effective at being believable.
Conclusion and Calculation
SAP receives a …

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For years SAP has said that they would be hosting their products and not relying on AWS.
In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim. 

What SAP Said About SAP Hosting its Own Products and not Relying on AWS
This was the official policy of SAP for some years. In 2015 in this article in Diginomica, SAP executive Steve Lucas lays out the reasons for this, which we covered in the article The Problems with Diginomica on Steve Lucas on HANA, Oracle, IBM, AWS, and Microsoft.
However, within a concise period of time, SAP claimed using …

… of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

What Actually Happened with Netweaver?
Netweaver turned out to be part marketing construct and part a set of tools that did little for SAP projects, as is explained in the article Did SAP Netweaver Ever Exist?
We called out Netweaver as not being anything back in 2010. Our article explains why Netweaver is part of some SAP product names; it was never anything more than a marketing construct or a container within which real SAP products existed. As soon as HANA was introduced, Netweaver stopped being marketed

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Best Practices are Contained within SAP 0% 100% 1990’s 2010 See Article Link

Design Thinking Speeds SAP Implementations 0% 100% 2013 2017 See Article Link

S/4HANA is Complete 0% 100% 2015 2017 See Article Link

SAP Rapid Deployment Solution Sped Implementations 0% 100% 2012 2017 See Article Link

SAP ASAP Methodology Sped Implementations 0% 100% 1997 2015 See Article Link

S/4HANA Has a Simplified Data Model 0% 100% 2015 2017 See Article Link

SAP to Introduce Revolutionary Health Application Based on HANA 0% 100% 2012 2017 See Article Link

Ariba is Useful for Direct