SAP Solution: Licenses

SAP license management, once already a domain of complex rules and opaque metrics, has developed into an even denser jungle over the past three years, with many existing customers finding it difficult to keep track of the pathways. SAP's cloud strategy and the implementation of Full Use Equivalent as a new license model are at the heart of this development.

Rising IT costs make the optimization of SAP licenses a strategic necessity. If you wish to minimize cost risks and secure negotiating leverage, you should proactively engage in dialogue with SAP instead of merely reacting to demands.

The SAP cosmos includes many ERP modules, such as ECC, BTP, BDC, Private Edition, Transition Option, Customer Evolution, and New Business Suite. Who can keep track of them all?

It is one of the most discussed topics in the SAP community: license costs for the SAP Cloud ERP Suite. SAP and the hyperscalers claim that cloud computing also brings savings for users. Statements by SAP CEO Christian Klein suggest otherwise.

Software licenses are the bread and butter of IT providers. In any case, licenses and maintenance fees are justified. But do the regulations have to be so complicated?

"Rock-solid engineering. Bold creativity." That's how SAP advertises Fioneer on its own homepage, but will customers now have to pay for Fioneer's expensive deal between SAP and third parties? There's a lot of anger.

Are you about to decide which path to use to migrate to S/4 Hana? Contract Conversion, Product Conversion or Rise with SAP? Take a look at the PKL Q2/2023.

Even if S/4 is not a tragedy like Shakespeare's Hamlet, the question for the existing SAP customer is whether he can live with the S/4 provisions in the PKL. If not, then this must be included in the contract negotiation.

The many aspects of new S/4 licenses based on existing SAP systems are a topic for specialists and a challenge for SAP Basis. Knowledge about the appropriate SAP license transformation and conversion is relevant for all basis managers. The S/4 conversion poses major challenges for license management in every respect.

Professional SAP license management offers companies a wide range of opportunities for optimization. SAP license management tools appear to be a simple solution to current challenges. But what do the tools realistically deliver today and what do the tool providers promise their customers?

Business Case Rise with SAP, right? With Rise, SAP offers an all-round worry-free solution in the cloud based on a (naturally) positive customer-specific business case calculation.

50 years of SAP - actually a reason to celebrate. Not so for SAP user companies: Problems with licenses and contracts are clouding the mood, demanding a lot of attention and money - and tying up capacities.