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<\/a><\/div>\nThe SAP balance sheet can only be saved by non-IFRS key figures, as journalist Sabine Gusbeth from \"Euro - Das Magazin f\u00fcr Wirtschaft und Geld\", issue 3\/2016, writes on page 33:<\/p>\n
\"The software group SAP reported preliminary figures for 2015 at the end of January: Operating profit for the full year (non-IFRS) increased by 13 percent. Operating profit (IFRS), on the other hand, was down by two percent, while profit after tax was down by as much as seven percent.<\/p>\n
Certain costs for acquisitions, restructuring and legal disputes are eliminated. At least: On its website, the software group points out that the self-defined non-IFRS measures are of limited use and that the eliminated amounts could be material for SAP.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Don't trust any statistics that you haven't falsified yourself, some readers may think. Self-constructed non-IFRS figures are counterproductive because they deprive existing customers and partners of orientation.<\/p>\n
Help comes from the user association DSAG:<\/h3>\n
The 2016 investment survey paints a realistic picture of the plans and wishes of the German-speaking SAP community.<\/p>\n
The result can be summarized with an almost unanimous rejection of S\/4, great skepticism about Hana and complete lack of understanding for HEC and HCP (Hana Enterprise Cloud and Hana Cloud Platform).<\/p>\n
SAP's two key strategic directions - cloud and in-memory computing - are being mercilessly punished, according to the DSAG investment survey.<\/p>\n
Another \"orientation aid\" for the SAP community comes from the analysts at Gartner, who raised that the published cloud figures of all major IT providers hardly stand up to a deeper examination.<\/p>\n
How much of a threat is this to SAP's existence and business model? Surprising answer: Not at all!<\/p>\n
SAP is very likely to have a very successful future ahead of it.<\/p>\n
The self-constructed non-IFRS figures and the self-praise at this year's annual press conference in Walldorf and at the Capital Markets Day in New York City at the beginning of February serve to distract and obfuscate.<\/p>\n
The plan to even more sales, profit and wealth is different!<\/p>\n
The answer can be found in the IT stack, the top level of which SAP, as the global ERP market leader, already conquered with R\/2 and has since massively expanded with R\/3, ERP\/ECC 6.0 and Business Suite 7.<\/p>\n
There is no danger here. SAP is the ERP monopolist. But this successful business model also no longer promises spectacular growth: But there are still layers beneath the ERP that need to be conquered or eliminated - so that ultimately more budget remains for the top level.<\/p>\n
The air must be taken out of the stack below, because IT budgets will no longer grow dramatically.<\/p>\n
What is Hana?<\/h3>\n
A disruptive innovation or a poison dart for Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server? By its very nature, Hana is an excellent in-memory computing database, but even more important is the strategic component: Attractive licensing models push the other database vendors out of the market and capture another piece of IT stack.<\/p>\n
Why are so many server suppliers being certified for Hana?<\/h3>\n
The higher the competitor density, the lower the Hana server prices. This is where the existing SAP customer saves. Theoretically, more budget remains for S\/4.<\/p>\n
And SAP's love of open source like Linux, Open Stack, Cloud Foundry and Ceph?<\/h3>\n
Is honestly run, but has another ulterior motive: SAP wants to prevent any new dependency of its existing customers on other well-known IT providers.<\/p>\n
Cloud - yes, but either your own with Open Stack and Cloud Foundry, but not AWS, Microsoft or Google. Ceph and commodity hardware is not yet a threat to NetApp and EMC.<\/p>\n
In the coming years, this picture will change. Then the whole Big Data stack will be an open source project and Hana will make use of it via Hadoop.<\/p>\n
For the time being, SAP's last and soon to be most successful spearhead is the legendary SolMan, in order to dominate the entire IT stack.<\/p>\n
Previously a Swiss-IT knife for managing SAP infrastructure, version 7.2 is a power claim to provide all the functions of a management suite, from support to business process management and compliance to testing.<\/p>\n
Why was the contract for HP OpenView terminated? Why did Aris become a non-word in Walldorf?<\/h3>\n
Everything is aimed at driving unnecessary competitors out of the IT stack and offering the perfect ERP architecture with the triumvirate of NetWeaver, Hana platform and SolMan.<\/p>\n
If SAP no longer has to share the IT stack with anyone, the plan is for IFRS revenue and profit to rise again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Viele Jahre war SAP ein ehrlicher Partner und Freund der Bestandskunden. Es entstand die bekannte, globale SAP-Community. Vielleicht war es zu sch\u00f6n, um wahr zu sein. Jetzt hat SAP eine neue Strategie: Ausgrenzung, Alleinherrschaft und Gewinnmaximierung.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Editorial<\/a>, Die Meinung der SAP-Community<\/a>, MAG 16-04<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"E-3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}