John Appleby posted this review of my book on Amazon
“SAP Nation tells the story of SAP, with some customer stories. Whilst most of the information is in the public domain, Vinnie shares some amusing anecdotes.
Unfortunately the book tails off in the chapters around the customers that are committed to the SAP roadmap (which is a shame, because the failure stories are well told) and fails to deliver a clear call to action.
In addition, SAP announced its 4th generation S/4 HANA platform right after this book was launched and so there is no analysis of S/4 here.”
I posted this response
“John, thanks for the review
The timing is actually opportune. The three groups of case studies in book (you refer to fourth) - the unadopters, the diversifiers, the pragmatists -are actually pretty restless and if S4 is years out, many are going to emulate their peers I profile in those case studies.
BTW I gave SAP a chance to contribute 10 pages unedited on how things would be different going forward. They promised to contribute but had not till November so I had to release the book. To me they could have easily summarized S4 in that section. Clearly, they had not fleshed it by then. In Feb when they announced it it was still pretty high level. You, me Brian Sommer and several others have raised a ton of questions. Not sure what they will announce at Sapphire in May.
And when and if they do, I expect to release a follow up eBook with an update.
But for now, S4 is a statement of direction and I see many SAP customers strategizing along the lines of what this book outlines.
BTW the book in 3 months has been the most successful of the 4 I have written. Amazon sells the Kindle and the paperback version. The hardbacks which are only sold in bulk - orders of 25+ - directly by my company are about to enter their second print run. The first run was sold out within a couple of weeks, so the timing was actually pretty good.”
Thanks, John, you allowed me to pre-announce my next book
