One misclassified SAP user costs 30 times more than necessary: an Advanced Use license weighs 1.0 FUE, a Self-Service user just 0.033 – and under five-year cloud contracts, every misclassification compounds year after year. SAP licensing has changed fundamentally: named users became Full Use Equivalents, fixed audit cycles became continuous cloud metering, and migration credits fell from up to 90% to an estimated 50–60%. Written by the SAP Licensing Expert Team at VOQUZ Labs, this whitepaper gives you the foundations and core models to control your SAP cost.
- Why the gap between Advanced (1.0 FUE) and Self-Service users (0.033 FUE) makes classification your biggest cost lever
- The nine Digital Access document types – and why creating a document triggers costs while reading or updating one does not
- Why interpreting engine metrics takes 30–50% of the effort in any license analysis, and how to read a price-list SKU correctly
- HANA in the cloud: why memory, not licenses, becomes the real cost driver
- What SAP for Me, SAM4U, and BTP Cockpit deliver – and where they end
- How USMM 2.0's authorization-based measurement can push you into permanent overlicensing
- Coming in the next update: SAP AI, BTP, Business Data Cloud (BDC), Public Cloud, and SAP Contracts
