SAP heartland users call for greater license transparency
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SAP heartland users call for greater license transparency
"DSAG, the SAP user group for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has called for greater transparency in cloud licensing to enable the migration and upgrade of on-prem systems to the cloud. Speaking ahead of the user group's conference, chairman of the board Jens Hungershausen agreed the cloud was the infrastructure most SAP users look to modernize in their application stack, but inconsistencies in licensing were making the transition more challenging than it could be."
"In April, SAP ended its RISE with SAP product package, replacing it with SAP Cloud ERP Private, with pricing based on the Full-Use-Equivalent metric (FUE). Later, Gartner published a research note critiquing the licensing changes. It warned users that the changes modified SAP's volume-based pricing tiers, which resulted in increased list prices for some volumes. It recommended that users should look again at their bill of materials with SAP to understand the vendor's new cloud commercial terms before opting in."
DSAG called for greater transparency in cloud licensing to enable migration and upgrade of on-premises SAP systems to the cloud. Many customers still run legacy SAP ECC, Business Suite, or on-prem S/4HANA and face licensing inconsistencies when moving to cloud. DSAG wants SAP to treat cloud ERP as both private and public cloud. Cloud transformation requires a consistent, harmonized architecture, uniform operating models, clear migration paths, and transparent, scalable licensing and discount models. SAP replaced RISE with SAP by launching SAP Cloud ERP Private with Full-Use-Equivalent (FUE) pricing. Gartner warned these changes altered volume-based pricing and urged customers to re-evaluate bills and budgets.
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