SNOW OPTIMIZER FOR SAP

SNOW OPTIMIZER FOR SAP
THE WORLD LEADER IN SAP LICENSE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Why software asset management for sap
Procure
ment
Licensing
Finance
SAP
Security
SAP
Basis
Administ
rator
CIO
ENTITLEMENTS: What has
been contractually
purchased from SAP
Snow
Optimizer
For
SAP®
UTILIZATION: What
is
Software
actually being used and
by whom?
Snow
Optimizer
For
SAP®
Software
DEPLOYMENT: What has
been deployed by the
enterprise?
SAP Licensing
SAP has a number of complex license metrics. To gain an accurate
understanding of actual usage, these need to be accounted for and compared
with specific use rights in each customer contract.
USER LICENSE
TYPES
FUNCTIONAL
ENGINES
INDUSTRY
ENGINES
INDIRECT
USAGE
*PLANNED
INTEGRATION
OF LICENSE
TYPES
More
than 130
different
types
For example:
Logistics,
Finance, HR
For example:
for Real
Estate,
Energy,
Banking etc.
For example:
Portals,
SalesForce
For example:
Business
Objects,
Ariba,
Allocating the right licenses is complex
30: SAP BW?
SAP LICENSING: NEED TO MITIGATE RISK
The lack of insight into SAP licensing could result in significant financial and
legal liabilities and paying for assets that are not even utilized.
SAP is approaching an increasing number
of customers for significant, unbudgeted
license fees related to indirect use. SAP
software professionals should carefully
validate those indirect use claims and the
value received from them to mitigate costs.
Gartner, July 2014
Gartner Research Inc.: SAP Indirect Access License Fees Can Be Significant and Unexpected.
31 July 2014: Roberto Sacco, Alexa Bona, Derek Prior, Lori Samolsky
SAP investing in the Cloud
Investment in the Cloud is dwarfing on premise revenue.
SAP auditing more in depth to protect on premise revenue.
SAP audit and LAW submission
Uncertainty of what additional information SAP will request and areas SAP
will put under scrutiny.
No compliance report issued at the end.
SAP will not volunteer information of what spares licenses customers may
or may not have.
“Opportunities to optimise
Almost every global
enterprise has 20%
plus coverage in
licenses and no retire
or recycle capability.
Enterprise
maintenance for SAP
licenses consumes
22% of the purchase
price of the software
every year. Paying
maintenance on tens
of thousands of
unused licenses is
tremendously costly
and wasteful.
Indirect Usage fees
are estimated to be
an additional $7
billion business
opportunity for SAP.
Key Sap Statistics
Total SAP Licenses
70%
30%
In Use / Correctly Licensed
In Use / Incorrectly Licensed
20%
In Use - Incorrectly Classified
10%
Not In Use
In Use / Incorrectly Licensed
License savings/reductions can be significant – in the region of 20+% in
large, complex, distributed SAP environments where there has been limited
focus on SAP SAM to date.
Being in control of sap
SAP licensing is like a Cafeteria
Open buffet…
…without a cashier!
SAM FOR SAP SOFTWARE
The Snow Optimizer for SAP® software collects, aggregates and analyzes SAP
usage data:
Discovery, baseline inventory, usage optimization, license retirement and
recycling, role-tuning and analysis of indirect SAP usage/access.
Complement to a SAM advisory practice for SAP
Native to SAP and SAP certified
THANK YOU
TELMA RAFAEL, SENIOR SAP CONSULTANT
[email protected]