SAP promises to support S/4HANA through 2040
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...
Confusing cocktail of document licensing in SAP’s Hana strategy
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...
SAP extends Hana’s reach beyond enterprise applications
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...
Why you need to link licensing tools to HR
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...
How SAP’s digital access licence influences your ERP strategy
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...
SAP licensing – reassuringly expensive?
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...
How to make the most of your SAP licences
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...
How to improve SAP ROI with smart licensing
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...
SAP turns to prepay and iOS to mobilize SAP Cloud Platform usage
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;...