{"id":150221,"date":"2025-04-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=150221"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:20:19","slug":"science-sap-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wissenschaft-sap-lizenzen\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: SAP licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is SAP preventing sustainable innovation through complex license agreements? One innovative approach should lead to the next, resulting in more lucrative license revenues for the IT provider. Ultimately, a positive upward spiral where, in the best case, there are only winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, before starting an SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) project, existing SAP customers and partners should inform themselves very carefully about the license conditions. There is no all-inclusive flat rate for SAP BTP and therefore it is not the IT specialists but the licensing experts and lawyers who are called upon before a BTP project is put into operation.<\/p>

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The start of a BTP proof-of-concept can possibly be customized with SAP Credit Points, but if the project goes beyond the end of the year, the Credit Points for the Business Technology Platform expire. A similar challenge is the licensing of BTP services and engines, because the data volume is often unknown at the start of a use case. However, the pricing of many BTP functions depends on the volume of data to be processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAP partners are also affected by the fact that only the acceptance of an app and the associated amount of data to be processed ultimately determines the true costs: An SAP partner offering a cloud service on BTP using Hana and other BTP services should also be able to quote a price to its potential customer. However, the current license conditions and intertwined, mutual dependencies make a BTP calculation almost impossible. The partner bears the risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloud contracts in general and BTP licenses in particular are almost impossible for non-lawyers to tame. This challenge may not be a problem for large existing SAP customers with their own legal department, but many SMEs and smaller SAP partners do not have a full-time legal advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This complex license situation is not an immediate problem for SAP. In the long term, however, it will hinder ERP innovations. A composable ERP includes not only Hana, S\/4 and BTP as well as BDC (Business Data Cloud), but also many services from hyperscalers and third-party providers, some of which are subject to SAP licenses through indirect use. An ERP solution is first and foremost a challenging license jungle that needs to be managed by existing customers and partners alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n