Channeling “Mad Men” — Write Your Own Ad Headline for SAP HANA
Write Your Own, and Vote for Your Favorite SAP HANA Ad Headline
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Facts versus FUD
As you know from the massive communications effort around SAP HANA this week, SAP and its ecosystem of customers, partners, employees, bloggers, community members, analysts, and others are reacting aggressively to counter mis-information and factual errors that were spread by Larry Ellison at Oracle Open World (OOW) several days ago.
Today, this ad appeared prominently in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to bring attention to the FACTS (rather than the FUD – Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt – that others are spreading) about SAP HANA.
Our fresh new ad even made the rounds at Moscone Center in San Francisco where OOW is taking place!
This same “Fact-Checkers” ad will appear in both the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News tomorrow, Friday October 5th.
A previous SAP HANA ad focused on the cutting-edge nature of SAP HANA as a 21st Century database, in stark contrast to old, 1970’s technology upon which much the market is currently running. This one ran in the WSJ last week:
BUT…
In creating the latest ad, our experts came up with three headline options (actually, there is a rumored fourth headline, but it supposedly contains material suitable only for mature audiences). The three include:
- “EXEDATA, EXALYTICS, EXALOGIC. EXA-LOTTA HYPE.”
- “APPARENTLY, ORACLE NEEDS TO FACT-CHECK THEIR FACT-CHECKERS.”
- “THE ONE CHART THEY DIDN’T SHARE AT ORACLE OPENWORLD”
That last one refers to this as “the one chart” they forgot to share:
Obviously, of the three options, we chose this headline:
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Watch for More SAP HANA Buzz
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Here's my attempt at advertising 🙂
Losers are red
Winners are blue
The competition likes to spread lies
But SAP HANA is all true
My "headline" was published in my facebook & twitter account a couple of weeks ago:
https://twitter.com/henriquespinto/status/248196699527458817/photo/1
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=348148725275950&set=a.104378759652949.9391.100002424755949&type=1&theater
"Keep calm and query on HANA" 😉
As obvious, it was (an attempt of) a pun on the original "Keep calm and carry on".
Here is another one that just occurred to me:
"As see on 300, Oracles don't always give the most trustworthy information.
- OH MY GOD! My reports have already ran???? All of them??? This is Madness!!
- Madness?? THIS... IS... SAP HANA!!!!
When checking out your next generation Data Warehouse, do as Leonidas and bring the 100.000 down to 300. With SAP HANA."
KEEP CALM AND QUERY ON!
Henrique, I think you have a winner 😆
HANA-luia
They say there was a secret score
That HANA found, and it pleased the Board
But you don’t really care for profits, do you?
Products, dollars, euros, ships
Quality, metrics, retail blips
The CEO and staff sing HANA-luia.
HANA-luia
HANA-luia
HANA-luia
HANA-luia!
Take your pick or make it a series of headlines:
Larry Ellison makes worst call since replacement refs!
or
Larry Ellison dismisses SAP's Hana. Also states that replacement refs did a great job.
or
Oracle Fact-Checkers to Replacement Refs: We'll blow the calls from here!
Unfortunately, I haven't been working out much lately, so I think I mostly resemble Bert Cooper. That aside, I think it would be valuable to create a Children's Crusade of sorts to right the wrongs of Oracle-dom, which could possibly be incited with something like this:
"Ellison's Math So Bad That Math Teachers Across The World Call For More Homework To Combat The Ills of Stupidity"
Let loose the dogs of war...
Oracle X3 runs at the speed of light (that is pretty fast)
SAP HANA does WARPspeed
HANA is a wonderful product. I would recommend to spend the time, money and listeners' attention span on explaining what it can do rather than focusing on Oracle that has been caught on the wrong foot by HANA. People know how Oracle communicates and people don't like them for that and other business practices. Set the facts straight, but beyond that, ignore them.
Beatles fans will know that the weekend was the 50th Anniversary of the release of "Love Me Do". Personally, I think it's rubbish, but so what ? Well, it reminded me of another Beatles song that may be useful in the HANA v Exadata spat..
"You say you want a revolution."
Lennon / McCartney
Of course what it really needs is the rumored video from Hasso's "moon" shot. Of course that says more about me than HANA 🙂
"Does your business run on made up numbers (like Oracle)? We can help."
"Analytics is about getting one version of the truth. Oracle missed the memo."
"Would it help your business if executives got their facts straight? Here's how not to do it"
"We know Oracle would like to bury some awkward facts. But our technology is designed to do exactly the opposite"
Even Oracle's executives have out-of-date information. Time for real-time approach?
Costly database strategy make you see red?
Get back in black with SAP HANA.
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I like the color metaphors... red = Oracle's brand color and indicates lost money ("in the red"), while "in the black" = making a profit. Nice. Now we just need AC/DC music rights!
Right, exactly what I was going for. Also, the rockin' vibes of AC/DC builds on the music used in the current Run Better TV campaign...so I think this concept translates well for TV. As for music rights, I think Chip Rodgers said he has leftover TechEd budget? 😛
early morning one day, a message from God at Oracle HQ's...
"...Follow SAP HANA"
or
on Twitter...#Oracle follows SAP HANA.
as Oracle means 'message from God'.