SAP Anywhere goes nowhere, reaches commercial cul-de-sac

SAP Anywhere, the "complete front-office software package", is going nowhere quickly in Europe as the service has been closed to new customers. The cloudy thing purported to manage SME customers’ e-commerce websites, their CRM, sales, order management, inventory and customer services from a single point. But the German …

[Your alien overlord - fear me]

Brexit, Brexit, Brexit.

[Anonymous Coward]

What I tell you three times is true ?

[Khaptain]

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“We made the decision to focus the go-to-market strategy of SAP Anywhere on the US market as well as mainland China for the next few years,” she confirmed.

The company mouthpiece said the “decision to narrow our focus” was “not made lightly, or due to any performance issues with the solutions. We do not plan on replacing it with any alternative solutions”.

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Or in other words, it has been a complete failure and no matter how hard we throw the proverbial shit at the wall it just wont stick..

Or, they believe that there are more "Fools with money to throw away" in the US and China..

[salamamba too]

or just more opportunities to sell on users data, as European data protection laws won't apply.

They may be back when May drops any pretence at honouring data protection here.

[CheesyTheClown]

Probably a weak pound issue

If they pen agreements with U.K. companies when the pound is weak, they will have to take what they can get since most U.K. companies don't want to pay prices that make sense on the sales sheet in dollars. US companies are forced to charge quite a bit more because of the very high cost of VAT in Europe and they'd probably have to charge U.K. companies less than their US counterparts.

In addition, I suspect that U.K. regulation is about to make a lot of rapid changes requiring a lot of coding to support it. The cost will be high. It's probably more cost effective to wait until the U.K. market stabilizes following Brexit to bother investing in that.

Of course it could simply be that Trump induced stupid has all their programmers and lawyers so busy that trying to keep up with American issues leaves no time to waste on U.K. stupid as well.

[AMBxx]

Re: Probably a weak pound issue

This is EU as well as UK, so not sterling.

VAT is reclaimed by anything other the most trivial conpany

[Anonymous Coward]

Once upon a time...

...there was an ugly duckling.

The ugly duckling was expensive, hard to use compared to alternatives and nobody wanted it.

So the ugly duckling was fattened up and eaten.

The end.

[Anonymous Coward]

This is probably a forseeable consequence

of SAP attempting to charge their customers a licence to access their own data...then suing them if they disagree...

[Charlie Clark]

Re: This is probably a forseeable consequence

ah, yes the recent High Court decision in their favour means that their licence fees are safe however naughty customers try and access their own data.

[Porco Rosso]

migration to ...

the will try to sell SAP Business One ...

[John Smith 19]

"but we will continue to support all existing customers…from the US."

So no calling the help desk before about 1300hrs UK local?*

BTW Charging a company for access to it's own data was SOP when the DVLC was outsourced to EDS and the Scots wanted to do their own data entry. EDS wanted to charge for accessing the records, and the SW update (IE reading from an RJE rather than a local concentrator) and IIRC for storing them in the first place. Keep in mind this is for a MF that's on UK govt premises owned by HMG

*or whenever the local HD is open for business. If they aren't going to go on trying to sell in the UK they are probably too stingy to run a 24/7 operation.

[Anonymous Coward]

SAP Anywhere goes nowhere

OK, I saw the video now tell me what is SAP charging for the service, how many companys are using SAP, what is their annual revenue and what are the names of these companies?

SAP Anywhere — features for your entire business

SAP UK v Diageo – an important ruling for customers with indirect access issues

[MJI]

I don't trust SAP

Yet they own one of our mission critical database engines, most original staff gone as well.

Was better under Sybase

[PeterM42]

CRAP Anywhere is now....

...just CRAP Somewhere. Probably too afraid of "fitness for purpose" rulings in the UK.