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A Expansion Section: S/4HANA Shelfware Posted on May 29, 2019 Customers that are live on S/4HANA are certainly more committed than a customer that uses S/4HANA as shelfware, but even these customers had to be evaluated because there are many ways of being “live” on a system. A live system can be a glorified POC,…

A Expanding Section: SAP’s Claims Around S/4HANA Posted on May 29, 2019 Frequently the claim will use a statistic regarding the success of an application. SAP will often have the word “number of customers” that it has. SAP has also taken this approach this with HANA and S/4HANA. SAP has announced roughly 500 new “customers”…

A Expanding Section: Media Coverage of S/4HANA Posted on May 29, 2019 Other sources such as Forbes or Diginomica are both funded by SAP and will publish uncritically any case study that is communicated to them. Recent articles on S/4HANA adoption tend to reference one of these fallacious estimates and declare something like.. “adoption of…

A Expanding Section: What Is Going on with S/4HANA Failures? Posted on May 29, 2019 It is our conclusion that there are a large number of S/4HANA implementations that have failed and are being kept quiet. Customers may classify the projects as “postponed” but they are failures. It would be difficult to evaluate every ERP…

A Expanding Section: The Implications of the Issues with S/4HANA Go Lives Posted on May 29, 2019 We predicted that SAP would certify other databases for S/4HANA in the article Why SAP Will Have to Backtrack on S/4HANA on HANA. To our surprise, this has yet to happen. There is little doubt that the requirement…

A Expanding Section: The Technical Tie Between S/4HANA and HANA Posted by Shaun Snapp on May 28, 2019 The Technical Tie Between S/4HANA and HANA S/4HANA has been artificially restricted so that it only runs on the HANA database. Although not part of the research, I have thoroughly analyzed the technical merits of SAP’s argument…

A Expanding Section: The Implication of Implementing S/4HANA Posted by Shaun Snapp on May 28, 2019 As S/4HANA uses a different database schema from ECC, S/4HANA is the first ERP system that will break all integrations and customizations that customers added to ECC. SAP has released information on these topics that indicates it prefers to…

A Expanding Section: Technical Background Information on S/4HANA Posted by Shaun Snapp on May 28, 2019 S/4HANA is SAP’s new ERP system, meant to replace SAP ECC, which is the renamed R/3 ERP application. S/4HANA combined many SAP initiatives into one application. These initiatives include the following: What is S/4HANA Technically? Although never presented in…