SAP License Management Tool

Downsize your SAP License Costs

SAP's expensive license with complex licensing demand organizations to find a trustable Licensing solution to protect their SAP investments, and manage SAP licenses effectively that consumes 60% of the total IT budget. Organizations are also vulnerable and exposed to the risk of License compliance cost without a proven License solution in place. AuditBOT SAP License Management Tool is the only proven solution that offers 100% automation of SAP license management of the entire SAP Landscape with a guaranteed 40% (up to) savings in the SAP License cost.

SAP License Challenges

  • Due to the intricacy of the licensing model for SAP, companies worldwide struggle with managing SAP licenses.
  • SAP provides a vague definition to various named user License types and indirect access usage.
  • SAP License auditing / out of compliance cost are more expensive than actual License cost.
  • SAP is on the verge to enforce License compliance more than ever.
  • SAP License cost is the major component (60%) in IT budget that every customer struggles to keep down.
  • Manual adoption of SAP License management is a waste of the human resources and time, resulting in increased license compliance risk.

Better SAP License Optimization

AuditBOT License Management Tool analyzes various dataset from License management perspective to enabling enterprises to control their current and future License usage and costs. The solution is critical to Organizations before purchasing additional SAP Licenses and before annual license fee negotiations.

Auditbot SAP License Management Tool Provides

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SaaS/In-Premise

Available either as a SaaS/Cloud model or as classic enterprise software

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Cleansing SAP User IDs

Casual / Dormant users can be locked/reclassified with inexpensive License

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Professional License

Identifying the precise no of expensive Professional users required

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AuditBOT License Management tool

The AuditBOT License Management tool analyzes all the users in the SAP system.

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TCodes in the system

Identifies the amount of time each user spends including executed T Codes in the system.

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Precise License type

Precise license type for each user especially Professional users which is very expensive.

Indirect Usage Monitoring

Our tool identifies user accounts involved in third party applications with amount of data transfer in/out of SAP system as the result of indirect usage. Since indirect usage users, defined by SAP,do not require any additional licenses in many cases.

Indirect usage fee for Business Documents

Organizations can pay indirect access license fees by No of Documents (Ex: Purchase orders) or No of indirect Users involved. Our tool provides reporting on comparison of indirect Licensing by no of Orders or Users count to optimize incidental access.

Indirect usage fee for static reading of SAP tables

Static reading of SAP tables by indirect usage does not require any additional license by covering their basic Information user license type. Our tool provides reporting on which data was accessed, who accessed, and how it was accessed to qualify indirect usage.

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Auditbot SAP License Management Tool Key Benefits

 100% License compliance as well as 100% License Optimization

100% License compliance as well as 100% License Optimization

 Leverage with SAP to purchase additional SAP software and S/4 Hana migration

Leverage with SAP to purchase additional SAP software and S/4 Hana migration

 Recoup your SAP License from Locking Dormant users, terminated Employees and Duplicate SAP users

Recoup your SAP License from Locking Dormant users, terminated Employees and Duplicate SAP users

 Precise License recommendation for every SAP user and SAP Role

Precise License recommendation for every SAP user and SAP Role

 Minimize Ongoing SAP License Administration Overheads

Minimize Ongoing SAP License Administration Overheads

 Avoid costly mistakes with 'WHAT IF' PLANNING with time-consuming Manual / Guess work

Avoid costly mistakes with 'WHAT IF' PLANNING with time-consuming Manual / Guess work

Indirect Usage Tracking and recommendation

Indirect Usage Tracking and recommendation

 Guaranteed up to 40% License savings and avoid purchasing of additional Licenses

Guaranteed up to 40% License savings and avoid purchasing of additional Licenses

With better SAP License Management

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  • Guaranteed up to 40% License Savings and avoid purchasing of additional Licenses.
  • 20% on total maintenance fees.
  • 90% for each re-classified license.
  • 100% of dormant accounts.
  • 100% on multiple username accounts.
  • 75% on license management resources.

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FAQ

SAP License is very expensive and consumes 65% or more of the IT budget. A small increase in Named users License count (or) Professional Users License count will cost several thousand dollars plus a 22% support fee yearly to SAP customers. When Companies acquire new subsidiaries into their SAP system, they could easily break their current allowed license volume which would cost them a fortune. A perfect SAP License optimization would save anywhere from 5% to 40% of SAP License fees which could be in millions.
If an SAP customer uses a proven Software Asset Management (SAM) solution like AuditBOT, it would cost them a trivial amount to save 5% to 40% of their SAP license fees. It is critical to choose a proven SAM solution, otherwise SAP customers will end up with double the cost such as increased SAP License fee plus expensive SAM solution cost. AuditBOT offers a proven License solution starting with affordable pricing with a guarantee of 5% to 40% of SAP License fees which could be in millions.
There is no easy way to check compliance without a proven SAM solution like AuditBOT. You can count active Dialog users from SAP Production systems against their allowed License volume but it only covers just user count. There is no way to find your Professional License count exceeds the allowed Professional License volume because Professional user License is very expensive such as $3000+ per professional user License which varies by Region.rn
SAP License Management is an overview of the managed systems which are relevant for license distribution. SAP basis team install product licenses, maintenance certificates, etc. to their entire SAP Landscape.rnSAP License compliance is to ensure that consumption of SAP Named user licenses and use of SAP software are compliant with SAP License terms to avoid the potential risk of SAP License auditingrn
Once USMM License data is submitted to SAP annually, SAP compares USMM data against the License contract of each customer. If the USMM License count exceeds the customeru2019s Licensed volume, then SAP would send a bill to the customer to pay for the additional License fee. If a customer challenges SAPu2019s decision, then SAP would send a team to the Customeru2019s site at the customeru2019s expenses then demand various SAP usage data from the Customer to analyze in detail to support their decision. SAP performs various License audits to check Named User License count, Professional users License count, Indirect Usage, Managed Engines Usage, Concurrent Logins, and ratio between Purchase/Sales orders volume vs Professional user volume.
AuditBOT recommends a precise License type for every SAP user based on their executed T-codes in Production Landscape.
AuditBOT handles License optimization in 2 steps. The first one is to recommend a precise License type for every user based on their executed T-codes and document postings such as Purchase/Sales orders. The second one is to optimize the required Named user's volume in Production Landscape by identifying the casual Users, Duplicate users, Terminated Users, etc. AuditBOT will also monitor Indirect usage, Named Engines usage, etc. to educate SAP customers. AuditBOT is the ONLY company that guarantees 5% to 40% SAP License savings.