{"id":386,"date":"2013-12-01T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:50:30","slug":"christmas-for-the-sap-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/christmas-for-the-sap-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas for the SAP Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year we have given ourselves a gift: From Gartner<\/span> came up with the idea of sifting through and evaluating our licenses in the form of a workshop.<\/p>\n

Exciting hours and fruitful insights came out of it. We had a similar working session in 2001 and now, after twelve years, the story should be continued.<\/p>

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Of course, we use relevant tools for license management. Our controlling and in-house lawyers do a perfect job. And often enough SAP<\/span> to a license measurement somewhere present.<\/p>\n

Thus, the issue was not over-licensing or under-licensing!<\/p>\n

We set ourselves a much more difficult task: consolidating the existing licenses with the possible and actually used functions.<\/p>\n

Full customization<\/h3>\n

Right at the beginning of the Gartner<\/span>-meetings, there was a PowerPoint screen whose content is not new to me, but of which I was not aware: Over the years, the SAP<\/span> adapted almost the entire licensing scheme, not always to the advantage of us existing customers.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the turn of the millennium, user-license funcionality was still the dominant model, along with a few engine prices.<\/p>\n

It was the mySAP.com period from about 2000 to 2002.<\/p>\n

Then came the age of Business Suite (2002 to 2006) and user-license functionality and engines were equally represented in the price list.<\/p>\n

From 2006 propagated SAP<\/span> vehemently applications with engines and packages prices.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, this has always been of secondary importance for the Group, since we operate under GEA\/PSLE (Note: The Group is not a subsidiary of GEA\/PSLE). Red<\/span>.: Global Enterprise Agreement and Product Support for Large Enterprises with 17 percent maintenance fee).<\/p>\n

All license topics covered<\/h3>\n

The workshop with Gartner<\/span> but was organized jointly with the divisional CIOs and industry holdings, so we had every licensing topic on the agenda.<\/p>\n

And it was really interesting to see from a higher perspective how SAP<\/span> The functional offering has shifted from User Licenses to Engines and Packages.<\/p>\n

For the sake of completeness and for my colleagues at the SAP<\/span>-Stammtisch.<\/p>\n

Application User Licenses are currently based on the following types:<\/p>\n