The global and independent platform for the SAP community.

Indirect usage and new SAP pricing model

A lot has happened since the SAP licensing experts at Aspera conducted a survey on indirect use in 2015. SAP's demands for license fees for indirect use have unsettled many SAP customers.
E-3 Magazine
October 16, 2018
Indirect usage and new SAP pricing model
avatar
This text has been automatically translated from German to English.

How are customers dealing with this? Have they bought additional licenses or were they able to successfully avert the claims? If so, how? How do lawyers view the contentious issue? Are the claims justified?

SAP's new pricing model presents existing customers with a choice: either stay with the named-user-based license model, switch to the new document-based model or migrate directly to S/4 Hana. What will SAP customers choose and when? Take part in the survey now.

http://www.aspera.com/de/sap-indirekte-nutzung-umfrage

avatar
E-3 Magazine

Information and educational outreach by and for the SAP community.


Write a comment

Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Am Messezentrum 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
+43-66-24355460

Event date

Wednesday, June 10, and
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Early Bird Ticket

Regular ticket

EUR 390 excl. VAT
available until 1.10.2025
EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, April 22 and
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Subscribers to the E3 magazine
reduced with promocode STAbo26
EUR 390 excl. VAT
Students*
reduced with promocode STStud26.
Please send proof of studies by e-mail to office@b4bmedia.net.
EUR 290 excl. VAT
*The first 10 tickets are free of charge for students. Try your luck! 🍀
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2026, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.