Executive Summary SAP is telling customers that they can use data tiering in HANA to use innovation in database design. How accurate is SAP data tiering being new? Video Introduction: Is SAP’s Warm Data Tiering for HANA New? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP has communicated a new item for SAP HANA….
Executive Summary SAP has told customers that they must use HANA CDSs. How accurate is SAP on this topic? Introduction SAP has been communicating to customers that they should use HANA CDSs as a primary way to access SAP HANA data. And that CDS views are the way SAP will go forward in the future,…
Executive Summary SAP has told customers that they must use BW as a BI solution for HANA. How accurate is SAP on this topic? Introduction SAP has been communicating to customers that they should buy BW4HANA for BI because SAP is not designed to integrate well with 3rd party solutions. Our References for This Article…
A Expanding Section: The S/4HANA Implementation Payoff Posted on May 30, 2019 For such a large initiative, S/4HANA is not paying dividends to customers or to SAP. Many customers were promoted into implementing S/4HANA by SAP or their consulting partner, yet what have customers received in return from these implementations? From this research, we learned…
A Expanding Section: The Importance of Drawing a Distinction Between S/4HANA Research from Marketing Information Posted on May 30, 2019 Entities that release information about SAP projects are generally not interested in research or interested in releasing accurate information or following the scientific method. They are profit-seeking entities who are not bound by research rules….
A Expanding Section: S/4HANA Functionality Review and What it Means for S/4HANA Implementation Posted on May 30, 2019 Unlike all of the studies on S/4HANA published by other entities, the background information is not only based on discussing and interviewing those with experiences on S/4HANA projects but in also testing S/4HANA. This is consistent with…
A Expanding Section: The S/4HANA NDA Posted on May 30, 2019 SAP has required that companies sign an NDA as part of implementing S/4HANA. We learned of this from several SAP customers. This is a highly unusual step taken by SAP. And it brings up interesting questions as to why. We cannot confirm that all…
A Expanding Section: The Countries of the S/4HANA Case Studies Posted on May 30, 2019 SAP gets most of its business from the US and Europe. Something which looked off was that the case study database does not match the traditional markets of SAP. Sixty-one percent of the case studies are from neither the US…
A Expanding Section: The Discrepancy Between the Public S/4HANA Case Studies and the Private S/4HANA Case Studies Posted on May 29, 2019 There is a very considerable discrepancy between the public case studies and the private case studies. The first obvious difference is the implementation duration, with the public case studies not only being significantly…
A Expansion Section: Published Studies on S/4HANA Implementations Posted on May 29, 2019 The 350 number is from ASUG and their 2016 survey which was critiqued by Brightwork in an article entitled Analysis of ASUG’s SAP HANA Adoption Survey. This survey was published a year ago, from the publication of this research paper you are…