SAP Software Licensing

As a SAP Gold Partner, we believe it is important, not only to understand your needs, but also to understand the future goals of your company. Our goal is to make sure you understand what you own and your contractual obligations. Our goal is to create an optimal buying strategy that delivers value. Our objective is to make our customers stronger through commitment and ownership in their success. To achieve this we will help manage both of these over time, creating and implementing an optimal buying strategy that delivers the most cost efficient solutions, while building the vendor partnerships you want and deserve.

Our methodology takes us through several processes allowing us to fully understand your environment, contracts, business requirements, desired vendor relationships and actual software usage. We utilize the information gathered to build a license management and buying strategy which will maximize your software and IT investments.

Steps:

• We discuss and analyze your environment to fully understand your applications, users, hardware and architecture so we can build an accurate topology of existing and potential future environments.
• We interview the appropriate parties to understand your existing and desired vendor relationships.
• We analyze all your existing contracts to understand what you own and your contractual obligations.
• We create a comprehensive spreadsheet listing your full environment, including software usage and actual software licenses.
• We create a comprehensive binder with all contracts put in chronological order so you have accurate records which can be easily accessed.
• A findings report is created which communicates compliance with existing contracts, optimal licensing recommendations and details of all information gathered during the process.

Phase 1:

In-Depth Investigation Interview the User Community to Determine Usage and Future Needs

Our interview process enables us to become experts on your internal systems. It is critical to have a firm grasp of your architecture, application types, users, usage cycles, growth or consolidation plans and disaster recovery strategies. This information allows us to combine quantitative and qualitative data to deliver a more accurate analysis—and help you to better plan for the future.

Interview Appropriate Parties to Understand Existing and Desired Vendor Relationships

Through discussions on the current state of your relationships with your vendors, we are able to help mend or enhance those relationships with creative ideas which are beneficial to both parties.

Understand Your Current License Landscape

Our consultants review your existing contracts and licensing agreements to discover products, license types, terms and conditions. They build a license history synopsis, listing all contracts and orders in chronological order and whether they were customized for your particular business and architectural environment.

Phase 2: Reporting

Create the License Inventory Report

This report includes the name of each server, the number of processors per server, the application(s) database or application each server is supporting, the named user population, concurrent usage estimates, existing licenses allocated and the license number associated with each license.

Comprehensive Binder with Contracts in Chronological Order

All software contracts you have entered into are placed into a consolidated binder for easy access. Not only can this binder be used as a reference, but it can also be used for audit purposes.

Evaluate and Determine Compliance

We use the information gathered through evaluating existing contracts, conducting cross-network verification, and interviewing the user community to determine license compliance.

Optimize Licensing Metrics and Purchase Strategy

Our consultants then analyze how licenses are currently allocated and predict future needs, future architecture and hardware changes. They create a succinct summary report of the best and most cost-effective ways to optimize your license environment going forward.

Findings Report

From our extensive information gathering and analysis of your licenses, we provide a findings report which delivers your state of compliance with existing contracts, our recommendations for optimal licensing and all of the steps taken to determine the findings.

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