Expanding Section: The Information Communicated About S/4HANA Go Lives
The following is a prototypical example of an estimate of S/4HANA go-lives.
There are many problems with this estimate.
- The estimate was put together by ASUG, which serves as a repeater for SAP marketing claims.
- There is exactly zero information about who filled in this poll. ASUG has not even listed the number of companies that responded to the poll.
- If the “are already live” percentage was applied to all of the potential customers of S/4HANA, it would result in an estimate of roughly 6,495 live S/4HANA customers, which is far beyond even SAP’s own estimate of 3,500 live S/4HANA customers. This means that the poll is entirely unrepresentative of the customer base, which means the poll has no reason to exist beyond serving to promote S/4HANA.
- This poll will be repeatedly referred to by various consulting companies, customers and media entities, without any focus being on whether the poll has any validity.
Reference
http://blog.asug.com/asugs-2019-state-of-the-community-study-reveals-sap-customer-insights-challenges-and-opportunities
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