SAP Solution: PKL

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For SAP, customer satisfaction is a very important part of the business model. After all, the very first SAP system was developed on the customer's hardware. Since then, many ideas from users have found their way into SAP's ERP.

You could accuse me of naivety in calling for security, planning reliability and dependability in the current situation. But I think planning security is more important now than ever, don't you? SAP owes answers.

Answer: No, you don't. Demand and answer in the form of an imaginary tweet can be found on the cover of the business magazine "brand eins" from February of this year. There could be no better way to express the SAP disaster "We have to listen to our customers.

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?

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?

There are triggers that more or less put every SAP CoE leader under stress. This should not be so, because if you know that you are compliant, you can meet a post-purchase proposal from SAP with calm. Conscientious preparation is half the battle.

Shortly before a momentous escalation, SAP and the user association DSAG have agreed on a provisional licensing model. Whether the solution delivers what SAP and DSAG promise should be clarified by the end of the year, because DSAG e. V. praises in anticipatory obedience without giving details.

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.

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?

After all, everything was supposed to be simpler and more understanding. In 2015, the motto of the Sapphire keynotes was "Run Simple" and "Make Digital Simple. In 2016 and 2017, SAP CEO Bill McDermott spoke of "Empathy" in Orlando.

To deal effectively with the topic of SAP license management, it is necessary to understand which activities lead to the use of the manufacturer's intellectual property. Indirect use, for example, has been a widespread topic in the SAP community, and not just since the legal dispute in the UK became public.