SAP License Management

Comprehensive SAP license management & compliance solutions

SAP applications are among the most highly valued and widely used in many organizations. Companies like yours risk costly and unplanned expenses if you don’t know the exact number of SAP users you have and where, how the systems are being used and what license types are utilized, even after you submit the required license administration workbench (LAW) data to SAP.

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SAP Optimization - Current Position

Gain control of your SAP licensing

Usage data across all SAP systems

Accurately budget for future needs

License requirements become a moving target as your organization evolves. Flexera provides you with SAP usage information and analyzes user behavior based on several factors, including SAP transactions, authorization roles and module usage. This allows your organization to accurately predict future SAP license needs and avoid unbudgeted surprises.

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SAP Licence Optimization - Indirect Access

Indirect usage insights

Identify and optimize indirect usage

Indirect usage is an increasingly high priority for many organizations as SAP continues to perform audits related to this model. The financial risk can be significant and costly. With Flexera, you can discover instances of indirect access and optimize the license requirements for users of non-SAP systems.

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AVOID UNBUDGETED SURPRISES

Simplify the true-up process

Preparing for SAP true-ups—creating the LAW report and sending it to SAP—can be an exhausting process. With Flexera, your organization can:

  • Minimize the effort it takes to prepare for a true-up or audit by automating the collection and processing of named user usage and package licensing data
  • Reclassify users based on their actual usage, eliminating duplicate users and reclaiming unused licenses
  • Determine ongoing package license consumption and avoid unbudgeted true-up surprises for these licenses
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With a nearly real-time view of our license consumption, we can constantly monitor our license allocations to ensure that we never overspend on licenses that we don’t need. What’s more, spotting and deactivating inactive user accounts now takes a matter of hours, compared to up to a month when using SAP’s built-in asset management tools.

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Nico Fleisch, License Manager EDEKA DIGITAL

Informing IT, Transforming IT

Industry insights to help keep you informed

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8 Ways to Reduce Spending on SAP

Organizations across the world spend millions on their SAP® systems, typically increasing their license expenditure every year. The processes and solutions to control and limit this upward curve represent huge cost saving opportunities. Industry Analysts state that enterprises who mature their SAM processes and use tools to focus on license optimization typically report up to 30% in spending reductions within one year. They also enable the SAP team to spend less time on license administration and turn their focus to mission-critical tasks.

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How to view and optimize your SAP licensing costs

SAP is known by SAM practitioners to have one of the most complex software licensing models. In fact, in a 2021 SAP User Group Survey, 95 percent of respondents said that SAP’s licensing is ‘overly complicated. On top of that, 67 percent of users claimed that they have found it challenging to keep track of SAP license usage. Additionally, according to Flexera’s 2022 State of ITAM Report, 30 percent of respondents claim that their SAM practices are still in the beginner phase. It’s clear that SAM practitioners need help tracking usage and consumption. But what can you do to optimize…
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