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White Paper · SAP · Named User License

SAP Named User License Negotiation. A buyer side white paper on SAP named user licenses.

Negotiating SAP named user licenses at the broader SAP renewal cycle. The Professional User framework, the Limited Professional User framework, the Employee User framework, the Developer User framework, the named user rightsizing framework, the indirect access framework, and the buyer side moves.

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SAP named user license fees typically run at twenty two percent of the contracted SAP license framework annually under SAP Standard Support, and at the upper customer scale under SAP Enterprise Support. The framework anchors the broader SAP support framework against the contracted SAP license framework, with the cumulative effect that SAP support fees compound across the contracted SAP framework and become a material commercial line item across the contracted SAP framework. This paper sets out the buyer side framework for negotiating SAP named user license fees, the third party SAP support framework, the SAP support reduction framework, the SAP RISE bundled support framework, and the SAP support transition framework at the broader SAP renewal cycle. Read the related SAP services practice, the SAP knowledge hub, and the RISE with SAP and ERP Cloud advisory.

The SAP named user license framework intersects with five principal commercial dimensions across the customer's broader SAP framework. One. The SAP Standard Support framework, which anchors the broader SAP support framework against the contracted SAP license framework at twenty two percent annually. Two. The SAP Enterprise Support framework, which anchors the broader SAP support framework at the upper customer scale. Three. The third party SAP support framework, which delivers material commercial leverage against the broader SAP support framework typically at fifty percent of standard SAP support cost. Four. The SAP RISE support framework, which folds support into the broader RISE with SAP subscription framework. Five. The SAP support transition framework, which anchors the broader SAP support framework against the customer's actual SAP support transition framework. The five dimensions compound across the broader SAP framework, with the cumulative effect that the SAP support framework typically delivers fifteen to thirty percent savings at the broader SAP renewal cycle.

What you will learn

  • How SAP Professional User, Limited Professional User, Employee User, and Developer User licenses differ across the broader SAP user framework
  • How the SAP named user category framework anchors the broader SAP user framework against the customer actual SAP user activity framework
  • How the SAP named user rightsizing framework reduces the broader SAP named user framework against the customer actual SAP user framework
  • How the SAP indirect access framework intersects with the broader SAP named user license framework
  • How the SAP audit framework against the named user license framework anchors the broader SAP audit framework
  • The eleven move buyer side framework for SAP named user license negotiation at the broader SAP renewal cycle
  • How to anchor the broader SAP named user license framework against the customer actual SAP user framework rather than the publisher preferred broad SAP user trajectory

Table of contents

SAP Named User License Negotiation

  • 1. Executive summary
  • 2. The SAP Professional User framework
  • 3. The SAP Limited Professional User framework
  • 4. The SAP Employee User framework
  • 5. The SAP Developer User framework
  • 6. The SAP named user category framework
  • 7. The SAP named user rightsizing framework
  • 8. The SAP indirect access framework
  • 9. The eleven move buyer side framework
  • 10. How we engage

Who this is for

Chief Information Officers, Vice Presidents of IT Procurement, SAP Center of Excellence leaders, SAP licensing managers, and broader procurement leaders running the next SAP named user license renewal cycle. The paper is written for SAP customers running SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP RISE, and the broader SAP enterprise framework with material SAP named user license spend.

White Paper · SAP Named User License

SAP Named User License: Negotiate the framework on your terms.

The buyer side framework for SAP named user license negotiation across the SAP Professional User, SAP Limited Professional User, SAP Employee User, and SAP Developer User frameworks. The named user category framework, the named user rightsizing framework, the indirect access framework, and the buyer side moves at the broader SAP renewal cycle.

Used across more than five hundred enterprise software engagements. Independent. Buyer side. Built for SAP procurement leaders running the next SAP named user license renewal cycle.

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SAP named user licenses typically compound materially across the broader SAP user framework. Redress reframed the framework around the customer actual SAP user activity framework, the actual SAP user category framework, and the actual SAP named user rightsizing framework. Twenty seven percent saving against the broader SAP named user license framework.

Vice President IT Procurement
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