{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read, Buy SAP again? 60% of customers say no, says Nucleus Research. 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","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[1534,1852,1851],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-analysts","tag-research","tag-sap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-QA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}