A correct and clearly laid out SAP license management with comprehensive analysis functions is the best and the only way to avoid under and over licensing, while creating a great savings potential concerning significantly high, but unnecessary costs. Therefore, the SAP license management needs to be organized in such a way to minimize the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

In terms of SAP licenses the primary goal is not to avoid liabilities concerning copyright infringements, unlike most other software licenses, but to create a clearly arranged overview of all existing SAP licenses through transparency. It is the only way to enable the minimization and optimization of SAP license and administrational costs in terms of license acquisition and existing licenses.

cuLicense, the license management solution, and cuDetect s@p, the tool for the optimization of SAP license use, perfectly complete each other in order to create a proper SAP license management. cuLicense includes and manages all license relevant information. The individual and versatile license models can be defined in cuLicense and will therefore be correctly taken into consideration during the Compliance Check.

cuDetect s@p determines the data of SAP systems. The gathered data from cuDetect s@p can easily be combined with the SAP license information and displayed in a central and clearly laid out overview.

Through comparing the data of the installed base viz. the detected number of installations of engines etc. with the stock of acquired SAP licenses (as well as optionally the authorized SAP license inventory), an under and over licensing can be detected and adjusted in advance.

Thus, the SAP license management with cuDetect s@p and cuLicense offers the advantage of an automated and central view of contract relationships concerning licenses, cash flows, and actual and theoretical numbers of the license agreements.

All collected data are not only available for online evaluation at the computer screen, but the data can also be exported into other applications for further editing. Through time-controlled evaluations all scan results can be filed in a table to enable an evaluation in cuLicense, the SAP license management, or an import into a third-party system later on.

In addition to the SAP license management, cuDetect s@p taps its full potential by optimizing SAP licenses. Because e.g. the non-existing fault tolerance of the SAP measurement leads to unnecessary additional costs, since even upper and lower case letters lead to different user names and therefore to more license requirements. The SAP license management and optimization with cuDetect s@p also discovers with just one click whether a user could be assigned to a cheaper classification, or even if a user has not been signed on for several month and might be deleted. Even users without specific classification, which are usually assigned to the most expensive classification during the SAP measurement, are comfortably detected by cuDetect s@p.

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