SAP Solution: SAP Licenses

For a successful S/4 conversion, SAP's customers need large budgets as well as a great deal of knowledge and experience. SAP did not communicate these success criteria with the necessary clarity. Now SAP CEO Christian Klein has to pay the bill for this.

Never change a running system - or maybe you do? Use the new year to take a close look at the risks and also the opportunities of your SAP solution. An analysis of SAP licenses by Vita Andina, Thoralf Drews, Viktor Hinterleitner and Lorenz Müller, all HiSolutions.

For startups, the exit strategy is one of the most important parts of the business plan. Ultimately, everyone wants to know how and when to exit - and what will then be left in the wallet, be it as cash or in the form of shares.

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

For years, SAP’s licensing policy has been constantly irritating customers and partners. The pricing strategies of SAP are complex and often leave room for interpretation, leading to uncertainty and conflicts. Especially Indirect Access divides SAP and its customers and business partners.

Is there a way out of the licensing dilemma that vendors and users can and want to live with? Put simply: Since the advent of client/server computing, there have been heavy seas in the licensing business and there are only a few lighthouses.

Purchased software is an ugly word - "on premise" and "licenses" sound much more intellectual. In the end, however, only "purchased software" will save us from ruin. And some fellow humans are also stocking up on gold again.

The SAP landscape has grown in recent years - both in size and complexity. To keep up with the complexity, IT managers must increasingly rely on automated solutions for SAP Basis operations.