„How many users are working at what intensity, with which SAP systems, clients, and modules?“ This, and other questions, usually remain unanswered. And often the missing information leads to a rude awakening after the required system measurement, at the latest.

But it is not the only reason an enterprise has to take a look at the actual SAP license utilization. We suggest detailed analysis of the license capacity and utilization even before a new acquisition of SAP licenses. Expensive investments and high maintenance costs can easily be avoided by much cheaper reorganizations.

The actual difficulty of an exact and detailed SAP license utilization analysis is represented by complexity of the SAP license model including e.g. many different user classifications and engines with connections to varying measurement metrics. Resulting in, e.g. prices for each user with several user models that are determined by activity. Also, additional costs are caused depending on functionality and engines. Due to the complexity, errors concerning the user configuration occur frequently. The SAP standard measurement (LAW) is not able to determine the actual SAP license utilization. Therefore, you do not have any chance to receive information about savings potential concerning users that might be assigned to a higher rated classification than necessary or about unused SAP licenses. In addition, users without specific classification are automatically assigned to the most expensive group.

Without an additional tool, you will be missing a sufficient overview of all SAP licenses, usage patterns, maintenance errors, etc. An optimization of SAP license utilization is therefore almost impossible.

The introduction of a tool for automated optimization of SAP license utilization and license monitoring is essential. But due to the varying system architecture, regular scan, detection, and inventory tools are not able to provide detailed information about the intensity of use.

But cuDetect s@p enables you to analyse the actual SAP license utilization of the individual users. Thus, you can prevent an over or under licensing while securing a SAP compliant license utilization. For this purpose, statistics about the use of resources and behavior in use are created, which then serve as basis for the internal service charges or external invoicing.

Besides the determination and optimization of utilization data, e.g. engines and related intensities of use play a major role in terms of SAP measurements and the license requirements.

cuDetect s@p provides you with an additional body of functions, rules, and regulations. With this expansion, every engine and its intensity of use can be determined in detail. This is not only a crucial factor for SAP license measurement, but also represents the foundation for a fair distribution of costs and invoices to the input involved and for the optimization of SAP license utilization.

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