{"id":3260,"date":"2016-07-08T04:57:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2016-07-08T04:57:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:57:03","slug":"sap-customers-would-rather-do-business-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/07\/08\/sap-customers-would-rather-do-business-elsewhere","title":{"rendered":"SAP customers would rather do business elsewhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read, <a href=\"http:\/\/searchsap.techtarget.com\/news\/450299562\/Buy-SAP-again-60-of-customers-say-no-says-Nucleus-Research\">Buy SAP again? 60% of customers say no, says Nucleus Research<\/a>. SAP isn&#8217;t pleased but made clear that they don&#8217;t participate in this particular <a href=\"http:\/\/nucleusresearch.com\/research\/single\/6-10-customers-wouldnt-buy-sap\/\">report<\/a> (presumably they do for Gartner\/Forrester\/IDC).<\/p>\n<p>Besides the opportunity for others playing in the space SAP plays in, I am reminded by how a humble research firm (Iceberg Research) brought Noble Group down &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/singapore-noble-group-rejects-iceberg-researchs-claims-1424081208\">Singapore Noble Group Rejects Iceberg Research&#8217;s Claims<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21646233-big-asian-commodity-trader-attacked-anonymous-online-critic-nobbled\">Nobbled<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-richard-elmans-noble-empire-crumbled-1464943859\">How Richard Elman&#8217;s Noble Empire Crumbled<\/a> (when this was written, its share price dropped 75% since the research report). This wasn&#8217;t the case for SAP (Noble lost 9.5% the day the report came out), and may not be (who knows).<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, it regularly shocks me that people don&#8217;t realise that when it comes to analyst firms, the whole game is &#8220;pay to play&#8221;. You pay a sum of money, you get to speak to their analysts, the analysts get to query your customers, and boom, a report is produced. Firms tend to be clients of analyst companies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20SAP%20customers%20would%20rather%20do%20business%20elsewhere%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2016%2F07%2F08%2Fsap-customers-would-rather-do-business-elsewhere&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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SAP isn&#8217;t pleased but made clear that they don&#8217;t participate in this particular report (presumably they do for Gartner\/Forrester\/IDC). Besides the opportunity for others playing in the space SAP plays in, I am reminded by how a humble research firm (Iceberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20SAP%20customers%20would%20rather%20do%20business%20elsewhere%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2016%2F07%2F08%2Fsap-customers-would-rather-do-business-elsewhere&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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