Each and every year, SAP gives notice about license audits. Reliable information about the license inventory in a company is then painstakingly obtained costing both the efforts of personnel and enormous amounts of time. In companies with a small number of SAP systems and users, information about the user group can still be collected by using Excel spreadsheets or off the top of your head. For a company with hundreds of users, however, this is no longer an option. Within complex SAP landscapes, a precise overview of the current license inventory is missing. To make matters worse, SAP software licensing is obscurely designed and not very user friendly.
However, introducing professional SAP license management is worthwhile for companies and other organizations. After all, each investment in SAP licenses ultimately and inevitably leads to maintenance fees. This is why avoiding unnecessary license purchases is crucial.
But how can SAP licenses be effectively managed to realize savings on software? To answer this question, we have put together this whitepaper to provide you with information about SAP and the licensing process. We will cover challenges in license management and causes of excessive licensing costs. Based on these we will disclose and describe requirements for an effective solution towards license optimization.
