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Optimistically speaking, SAP elicits admiration and amazement. There is hardly an IT application field where SAP does not try to get its foot in the door.<\/p>\n

It is sold to the community as innovation, but behind it lies the inability of a transparent, logical, stringent corporate policy.<\/p>

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Even at the end of last year, I heard at meetings that SAP was dancing at too many weddings. I can confirm this impression from my own experience: At SAP Select in Berlin, every conceivable IT topic was touched on.<\/p>\n

Thus, the event became a string of buzzwords.<\/p>\n

One could now quantify their occurrence and derive a ranking from it, but I will leave this task to our working students.<\/p>\n

Hana- and S\/4-influenced SAP has a fundamental problem: The concerns of existing customers are theoretically addressed at PowerPoint level.<\/p>\n

Whereas SAP used to stand next to the ERP user and analyze and then solve the challenge together with him, now \"solutions\" are produced in a rush with design thinking, which are then to mature \"for a fee\" at the existing customer.<\/p>\n

SAP is increasingly selling prototypes that require a license and that users must test at their own expense.<\/p>\n

In the digital transformation, there seems to be no more time for testing and quality assurance measures.<\/p>\n

Loss of reality<\/h3>\n

Because the connection to reality is missing, design thinking works excellently in the first step but then lacks sustainability, the IoT scenarios and industry examples become more and more obscure.<\/p>\n

My coworkers told me that at TechEd (!) 2016 in Barcelona, Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert coupled a coffee vending machine equipped with sensors with SAP's Hana cloud platform via a Fiori interface.<\/p>\n

And that's exactly the problem: Any first-year computer science student can pair a few sensors from the home improvement store with a free account on AWS.<\/p>\n

But we don't have a few coffee machines on our factory floors, but hundreds of CNC machines, each with hundreds of sensors. This data stream must be processed in real time and fail-safe!<\/p>\n

The real problems are not even mentioned in passing in SAP's PowerPoint presentations: How do you sort and consolidate the Big Data phenomenon of thousands of IoT sensors so that it does justice not only to a theoretical business model, but also to a real production environment?<\/p>\n

If sensor data from an Italian State Railways locomotive - one of Bernd Leukert's favorite IoT examples - doesn't end up in \"real time\" in the memory of the Hana in-memory computing database, that's far from a disaster.<\/p>\n

If one of our CNC machines doesn't respond in real time, the 50,000 euro workpiece is ruined. I would never entrust such a workpiece to an Internet connection to the Hana Cloud Platform.<\/p>\n

IoT is not an issue for HCP!<\/strong><\/p>\n

To solve the real IoT challenges, SAP would do well to partner with Siemens and Bosch - but what the Walldorf-based ERP provider forgets is that we, as manufacturing SAP customers, have been in contact with Siemens and Bosch for many years, not just since yesterday.<\/p>\n

Our production and factory managers know the Siemens and Bosch experts, and they know the wishes and challenges of our employees in production and logistics.<\/p>\n

SAP is naturally welcome here, but is the last to come in at the door now.<\/p>\n

No results without tests<\/h3>\n

I have already mentioned it several times here: The direction is right, but the details lack answers.<\/p>\n

Whether IoT, HCP or Hana - these SAP innovations are to be welcomed, but time should also be allowed for testing and maturing.<\/p>\n

Hana is a highly interesting database technology, but a productive database for a global corporation needs to be more than just fast.<\/p>\n

The maturity level of Hana 2 also seems insufficient to me for productive use.<\/p>\n

The challenge lies not in speed, but in stability, in the controllability of the technology. ERP, SCM, HCM need a robust, absolutely secure database.<\/p>\n

Hana will certainly meet these operational requirements one day. At the moment, Hana is the most exciting proof of concept for us.<\/p>\n

We are committed to digital transformation, but cannot proceed disruptively. We need to preserve what has been tried and tested and installed.<\/p>\n

Of course we are experimenting with Hana, AWS, S\/4, Fiori, HCP, IoT. What we would like to see is an SAP that stands by our side again and develops together with us.<\/p>\n

We don't need ERP prototype development that licenses half-finished products at a high cost and leaves troubleshooting and quality assurance to existing customers.<\/p>\n

We want to bring SAP back to real life, so that the abstract presentations devoid of any reality stop - then I'll be happy to drink a coffee from the IoT machine with the Walldorfers again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new year has begun with disastrous measurement results. A first IoT field test with hundreds of sensors has shown that SAP's Hana Cloud Platform is not prepared for Big Data. Cobbler, stick to your last!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1858,7,12],"tags":[366,412,3685,511,3687],"coauthors":[21816],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mag1702","category-meinung","category-noname","tag-bernd-leukert","tag-bosch","tag-design-thinking","tag-noname","tag-siemens","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",400,177,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-768x339.jpg",768,339,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-100x44.jpg",100,44,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-480x212.jpg",480,212,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-640x282.jpg",640,282,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-720x318.jpg",720,318,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",18,8,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",800,353,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",600,265,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName.jpg",600,265,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NoName-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Mit katastrophalen Messergebnissen hat das neue Jahr begonnen. Ein erster IoT-Feldversuch mit Hunderten von Sensoren hat gezeigt, dass die SAP\u2019sche Hana Cloud Platform auf Big Data nicht vorbereitet ist. Schuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten!<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"MAG 17-02<\/a>, Die Meinung der SAP-Community<\/a>, No\/Name-Kolumne<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"no-name","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/no-name\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}