According to Gartner Senior Analyst, Patricia Adams ...

“Substantial cost cutting opportunities exist in monitoring usage of purchased applications. Depending upon the level of maturity, enterprises that implement software usage capabilities will achieve savings of 5% to 25% in the first year. “

“By managing software license portfolios as a continuous process, enterprises will be better equipped to respond to audits or the threat of audits.”

ProfileTailor Dynamics for SAP Licensing Managers

SAP License Managers working in enterprises have limited visibility of SAP usage, since they typically lack the tools or know-how to gather real-time, accurate information about the actual utilization of SAP licenses. In order to collect this data, they often perform extensive manual, error-prone procedures. However, some data cannot be gathered even manually; it is impossible, for example, to manually run licensing audits for groups of activities.

 

Without accurate usage information, it is difficult to control unnecessary SAP charges for unused or under-used licenses, simultaneous usage, or users who have been incorrectly classified --- resulting in significantly higher SAP costs.

 

In order to implement best practices for SAP license management, organizations need: clear processes for provisioning new users and for auditing actual user activities, measurement of user activities with software that is external to SAP, assistance with annual usage review with SAP, and an adjustment of ongoing maintenance fees.

 

ProfileTailor Dynamics provides a complete solution, which:

  • Detects dormant accounts/users with no activity, unused authorizations, and users with low usage - including users who have logged in 3 times or less in the previous 3/6/9/12 months and users who have used 3 or less activities within a six-month period.
  • Provides detailed usage reports for each user, aiding in the reclassification of users according to their actual usage.
  • Identifies and alerts to simultaneous usage by same user on multiple computers, preventing double payments for same username.
  • Enables full customization of activity groups, including creation of new groups, changing existing groups, adding activities for different roles, supporting different licensing types.
  • Assists in reducing the number and type of SAP licenses.
  • Enables License Managers to work more effectively and to guide the enterprise in understanding and controlling SAP costs.


With ProfileTailor: Dynamics, you can manage SAP licenses --- while you Lower SAP costs!!!


Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites
| More...