The ERP vendor seeks to entice upgrades to its latest platform as it also announces there will be no support for Business Suite 7 beyond 2030. SAP is taking a carrot-and-stick approach to moving customers from its legacy ERP software, Business Suite 7, to its newer S/4HANA platform. The carrot is a bold promise to … Read more
SAP wants its customers to migrate from ECC to Hana and its cloud offering and is also putting forward a new, “ambiguous” document licensing scheme. Many businesses appear to be taking their time migrating from SAP ECC to the S/4 Hana ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform. At the same time, SAP has introduced a document licensing metric that provides … Read more
The benefits of Hana Cloud Services are clear to Asia-Pacific customers, although actual adoption will boil down to cost. When SAP unveiled its Hana in-memory database in 2010, Hasso Plattner, co-founder of the German software giant, envisioned all operational data in SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to be held in the flagship database. And by storing data on … Read more
IT can be pretty good at setting up a PC for a new joiner, but what happens when someone leaves? How do you delete their cloud access? A recent software asset management survey reported that almost half of participants do not have a software asset management (SAM) tool in place. The SAM Charter – Global Report … Read more
Following the high-profile legal cases against brewers Diageo and Anheuser-Busch InBev, SAP has brought some clarity over indirect access to its core ERP system. In April 2018, SAP made the first big step in shifting its customers away from traditional licensing to a consumption model. This new digital access licensing aims to clarify SAP’s position regarding … Read more
SAP’s recent settlement with AB InBev has again put audits and licensing under the spotlight. We look at how to get the best value and avoid fines. As someone who follows the software licensing market and who is also partial to the odd pint of Stella Artois, I have been following the AB InBev versus SAP case … Read more
There is no point in paying for something you never use – or worse, using the wrong licence. Doing the bare minimum for SAP licence management is not enough. Many licence reports seem to be based on the basic consideration that “one installation equals one licence”, and in the case of desktop, on-site software, this … Read more
A recent study suggested most SAP projects have a 50% chance of failure. The risk of having incorrect SAP licensing could be far higher. The implementation of SAP is a major IT initiative that has the potential to streamline business processes and make the organisation more efficient. But, as Computer Weekly previously reported, many projects fail … Read more
SAP unveiled a new consumption-based commercial model for its platform-as-a-service offering at Mobile World Congress. It’s been over two decades since the first mobile phone networks introduced pay-as-you-go (prepaid) services; Now SAP is getting in on the act, unveiling a new consumption-based commercial model for its platform-as-a-service offering, SAP Cloud Platform, at Mobile World Congress. … Read more
