Home›Training Academy›SAP Licensing Mastery

Training Academy · SAP

SAP Licensing Mastery.

The complete SAP commercial relationship, taught from the buyer's side of the table: named users and the engine metrics, indirect and digital access, S/4HANA and the 2027 deadline, RISE and GROW, BTP and the SaaS portfolio, audit defense, and the negotiation itself. Forty sessions, each with analyst grade slides, on screen knowledge checks with worked answers, clips from a senior licensing analyst, homework, and further reading.

40 sessions live40 sessions × ~30 minutes8 modules3 knowledge checks per sessionFree, no form

Start here. Session 1 is the map: the two axes SAP prices on, the estate, the contract stack, the measurement, and the five places enterprises get hurt.

Watch session 1

The curriculum

Modules 1 and 2 are the prerequisites; modules 3 to 7 can be taken in any order; module 8 assumes all of it. Sessions publish in order.

Module 1 · Foundations of SAP licensing

01

The SAP licensing landscape

The whole map: named users, packages and engines, and how they meet.

02

Named user licensing

The user type catalog, the classification rules, and the cleanup that pays for itself.

03

Package and engine licenses

The metrics engines are counted on, who counts them, and where they drift.

04

The SAP contract stack

The documents that bind you, the dated definitions, and the two clauses that settle disputes.

05

Measuring the estate

The measurement tools, what none of them can tell you, and the rehearsal that changes the outcome.

Module 2 · Named users and optimization

06

The user type catalog

Every user type, where each one stops, and the tests that place the people in between.

07

Classifying and reclassifying users

The evidence that makes a licence change stick, and why roles change before types do.

08

Dormant, duplicate and multi system users

Records that should not be counted, and the deduplication rate that finds them.

09

Engine and package optimization

Measuring engine consumption, the four levers, and the register that gives you warning.

10

Building the entitlement baseline

Entitlement, consumption, the gap and the evidence, in one document somebody signs.

Module 3 · Indirect use and Digital Access (the signature SAP topic)

11

Indirect access: the history and the risk

The exposure with no user record: the history, the cases, and the two pricing models.

12

Digital Access: the document model

Nine document types, the counting rules, the exclusions, and the price curve.

13

Weighting and counting in practice

Scope, query, four subtractions, and the evidence pack that makes the number stand up.

14

Measuring Digital Access

SAP's estimation service, the adoption programme, and the credits inside the offer.

15

Mitigating indirect and digital access exposure

Cutting the exposure at the architecture, the contract and the licence, in that order.

Module 4 · S/4HANA and the transition

16

ECC to S/4HANA: the deadlines

What 2027 and 2030 really change, the four routes, and building your own clock.

17

S/4HANA licensing on premise

The FUE metric, the conversion arithmetic, and what happens to what you already own.

18

SAP HANA database licensing

Runtime against full use, memory based sizing, and the line that grows on its own.

19

Licence conversion to S/4HANA

Two conversion routes, the credit arithmetic, and what happens to what you own.

20

The business case and the migration paths

Greenfield, brownfield and selective, and the case that survives finance.

Module 5 · RISE, GROW, and the cloud move

21

RISE with SAP: what is in the bundle

What is really in the RISE bundle, and what you hand over to get it.

22

RISE licensing and sizing

The FUE weights, the committed volume, and what growth above it costs.

23

GROW with SAP: the public edition

Public edition for mid-market and net-new, and what standardisation costs.

24

RISE, on premise, or stay

RISE, on premise, or stay past 2030: the comparison that survives a board.

25

Reading and negotiating the RISE contract

The order form, the service description, and the eight clauses that matter.

Module 6 · The SAP cloud and SaaS portfolio

26

SAP BTP and its consumption models

What BTP is, the four buying models, and who owns the consumption.

27

SuccessFactors and HCM SaaS licensing

Per employee against per subscriber, and pricing a population that churns.

28

Ariba and the SAP Business Network

Procurement licensing, supplier fees, and the network in the middle.

29

The rest of the SaaS estate

Customer Experience, Concur and Fieldglass: four metrics, four renewals.

30

SaaS renewals and shelfware

Finding the shelfware, timing the renewals, negotiating the estate as one.

Module 7 · Audits and compliance defense

31

The annual measurement, the enhanced audit, and where the exposure really sits.

32

Running the measurement

USMM, LAW, and the corrections that hold when somebody asks why.

33

Defending a digital access finding

The document metric, the evidence, and how a finding gets reduced.

34

Negotiating the audit settlement

What each side wants, the structures, and the release you must get in writing.

35

Software Asset Management for SAP

Tooling, the entitlement register, and governance that survives the enthusiasm.

Module 8 · Negotiation, support, special topics, and capstone

36

Standard, Enterprise, PSLE and third party: what support actually buys.

37

SAP negotiation

Terms outlive discounts, structure hides the total, leverage is built early.

38

Licensing events

The licence does not follow the company. Four clauses decide what does.

39

The SAP relationship, run deliberately

Account teams, roadmap pressure, partners, and running your own calendar.

40

Capstone: one estate, end to end

One estate, end to end: the whole course applied to a single negotiation.

The progress tests

One test per module, drawn from the knowledge checks in those five sessions. Fifteen questions each, pass at 11 of 15, retake as often as you like; your best score is remembered on this device. Free, like the course.

Progress tests · 8 tests · pass at 11 of 15

T1

Progress test 1: Foundations of SAP licensing

Sessions 1 to 5. Fifteen questions, pass at 11 of 15, instant grading with worked answers.

T2

Progress test 2: Named users and optimization

Sessions 6 to 10. Fifteen questions, pass at 11 of 15, instant grading with worked answers.

T3

Progress test 3: Indirect use and Digital Access

Sessions 11 to 15. Fifteen questions, pass at 11 of 15, instant grading with worked answers.

T4

Progress test 4: S/4HANA and the transition

Sessions 16 to 20. Fifteen questions, pass at 11 of 15, instant grading with worked answers.

T5

Progress test 5: RISE, GROW, and the cloud move

Sessions 21 to 25. Fifteen questions, pass at 11 of 15, instant grading with worked answers.

T6

Progress test 6: The SAP cloud and SaaS portfolio

Sessions 26 to 30. Fifteen questions, pass at 11 of 15, instant grading with worked answers.

T7

Progress test 7: Audits and compliance defense

Sessions 31 to 35. Fifteen questions, pass at 11 of 15, instant grading with worked answers.

T8

Progress test 8: Negotiation, support, special topics, and capstone

Sessions 36 to 40. Fifteen questions, pass at 11 of 15, instant grading with worked answers.

The credential

SAP Licensing Mastery Certification.

The examined step on top of the free course: 60 advanced questions across all 8 modules, pass at 48 of 60. The exam is 800 USD with 3 attempts included, the certification is valid 2 years, and there are no discounts for anyone. Access is by request; a person reviews every application.

About the certification

$800

No discounts

60

Questions, advanced

48/60

Pass mark

2 yrs

Validity

Learning the playbook and want it applied to your numbers? We work on contingency: 25% of what we save you. Nothing saved, nothing paid.