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If you believe the message from the DSAG Technology Days, S/4 AnyDB is dead. At least that is what is in my staff's report. But who is saving the community now? Perhaps an implementation of the NetWeaver stack in the Oracle cloud?
Oh no! Yet again, SAP will not extend their hand to its European customers, developers and analysts in 2018. Europe has been relegated to cash cow for SAP. Communication takes place elsewhere in the world.
Those familiar with the Hana scene know what that means: a scandal and the political failure of SAP. While Suse Linux is racing ahead, Red Hat is suffering in agony. The members of the SAP customer base outside of Europe are the main losers in this battle.
SAP is innovative like never before and yet this state of affairs hardly makes life easier for established SAP customers. Following SAPꞌs ideas, visions and roadmaps range from difficult to impossible. In this way, ꞌbimodalꞌ acquires a new meaning: SAP surges ahead and the established customer gazes with astonishment from far behind.
In the first half-year, the users of Success Factors, the HCM platform, would have been happy if there had been a second product provider available. At times, the SuccessFactors cloud was not reachable. What is a standard for hardware and services within the Group could also soon apply to software.
With regard to e-mail or storage, cloud computing may be easy, manageable and convincing. It gets more complex in the Hana Enterprise Cloud if SAP wishes to take over the established clientꞌs licenses and offer an all-round carefree package in return for this. Then nothing works without a cloud-exit strategy!
