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Author: Peter Rattey, Voquz

Peter Rattey is Managing Director of Voquz Labs
If you want to keep costs under control during an S/4 Hana switch, it is absolutely crucial whether you succumb to the lure of a contract conversion or switch with your entire license portfolio.
Do you actually know about SAP's whirlpool clause? Or do you know why one company has to pay for Business Suite maintenance, but another doesn't - even though the usage is comparable?
Every company is currently dealing with the topic of S/4 Hana by necessity. For its existing customers, SAP has announced that it will guarantee the old SAP Enterprise maintenance until 2025. But what comes after that?
The other day, the license manager of a company called me and asked for support. The license measurement was just around the corner and he wanted to get a few more tricks and recommendations from me so that he would not experience any nasty surprises.
A real challenge for every license manager: Since SAP discovered indirect usage, third-party licenses and engine measurement as lucrative sources of revenue, it is no longer sufficient to classify only one's own users correctly.

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. All information about the event can be found here:

SAP Competence Center Summit 2024

Venue

Event Room, FourSide Hotel Salzburg,
At the exhibition center 2,
A-5020 Salzburg

Event date

June 5 and 6, 2024

Regular ticket:

€ 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Event Room, Hotel Hilton Heidelberg,
Kurfürstenanlage 1,
69115 Heidelberg

Event date

28 and 29 February 2024

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
The organizer is 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 the attendance of all lectures of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2024, the visit of the exhibition area, the participation in the evening event as well as the 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 time.