SAP Solution: License Model

Until now, it was primarily a security issue when companies simply migrated their existing roles to S/4 without checking them. With the new licensing model, however, overly generous authorizations lead to a real explosion in costs.

SAP's price and conditions list (PKL) decides almost everything: What does indirect use cost? How much is the license back payment? Can SAP's existing customer afford the Hana database, IoT and Blockchain?

Snow Software, a provider of software asset management and cloud spend management solutions, has unveiled enhancements to its Snow Optimizer for SAP software solution in response to recent changes to SAP's licensing model.

After surviving the summer heat wave, SAP license managers in companies are facing an unprecedented flood of license innovations and challenges.

ERP has masterd the concept of thinking in end-to-end processes right from the start. E2E ultimately is the term for the value added by every integrated, business IT system. Everything in these IT systems is connected with everything—an advantage for the user, a challenge for license management. In this text, Stefan Autengruber, SAP Licensing Expert at License Ethics, and Peter Färbinger, E-3 Editor-in-Chief, share their perspectives on the new SAP Licensing Model.

At last there would be a proper CRM system in Walldorf, says one group. Many experts think that SAP would then no longer have any revenue from "indirect use". Neither will happen.

"Yes, I said, Cebit, what's up? The time is ripe for new styles," says Jan Delay. The Cebit organizers think so too, by the way.