I’m pleased to announce that our first SAP licensing course is now live and available to LISA subscribers worldwide. This course has been created in partnership with Hans Moorkens of Fisher IT Asset Consulting – … Read more
The American airline JetBlue has halved the number of named users required for SAP with proactive user management. I recently met with Mukarram Syed, General Manager for IT Corporate Products and Vijay Thillainathan, Security Engineer … Read more
In this Podcast, I speak with Patrick Dickinson of Aspera (Bronze sponsors of our upcoming UK Conference) to pick his brains on what’s changed in the world of SAP since our last podcast back in … Read more
One of the biggest ITAM stories right now has been SAP’s lawsuits against two of its customers – the drinks manufacturer Diageo and the Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev. Both lawsuits have centred around, or at … Read more
I attended an interesting session at the BCS SAM networking group last night. The main topic of conversation was SAP, led by Snow’s subject matter expert Telma Rafael. Notable discussion points: New Audit Threat on … Read more
Executive Summary The ITAM Review, an independent community for worldwide ITAM, SAM and Software Licensing professionals, has certified Snow Optimizer for SAP Software v2.0 as suitable for SAP License Management. ITAM Review’s SAP License Management … Read more
Update: This standard has been superseded by V2.0 available here. The criteria published below are an open standard for SAP License Management. i.e. If I want to invest in tooling to manage the risk and … Read more
SAP customers want clarity not a conversation – 76% in straw poll have concerns or fear the consequences of raising indirect access concerns with SAP Since the multi-million dollars exposures at Diageo and AB InBev … Read more
This article suggests a four-step process for managing SAP users and indirect access. It is a mixture of feedback from our SIG calls on SAP Indirect Access and ITAM Best Practice using the ITAM Review’s … Read more
The iconic British car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover saved a whopping £30m by optimising their SAP licensing position prior to negotiation. The savings, along with other benefits of SAM including stronger commercial awareness, audit readiness … Read more
The £60m potential fine mentioned in the recent Diageo case with SAP over indirect access looks like small beer, excuse the pun, compared to the $600m settlement mentioned for SAP licensing violations for the multi-national … Read more
A recent ITAM Review webinar on SAP indirect access found that 75% of ITAM Review readers felt that the topic of indirect access would be relevant soon. Conversations with ITAM Review readers suggests that the … Read more
This article provides an introduction to a new commercial offering from The ITAM Review, a SAP License Management Certification. Certification of SAP License Management Tooling ITAM Review’s SAP License Management Certification is designed to help … Read more
This article captures the main discussion points and actions from two Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings regarding SAP Licensing. As a result of the conference calls I have, on behalf of The Campaign for Clear … Read more
The UK High Court has ruled in favour of SAP who sued the global drinks company Diageo in a dispute over indirect licensing, reports Computer Weekly. SAP claimed that technology connected to SAP infrastructure via … Read more
The ITAM Review invites readers to join a new Special Interest Group (SIG) dedicated to SAP licensing, in particular SAP Indirect Access. SAP Indirect access remains a cash cow for SAP during audits due to … Read more
Podcast Episode 23: In this Podcast episode, I am joined by Patrick Dickinson, Senior Consultant at Aspera to discuss all things SAP. Podcast topics: About Secure Integration and Aspera Which team of an organisation deal with selling/ implementing SAP? … Read more
On April 28th, 2015, we hosted an IBM and SAP seminar in London, with the aim of providing ITAM professionals a day full of IBM and SAP advice and knowledge. The event was well attended … Read more
This Quick Guide is available in PDF format – simply subscribe to our free newsletter to download SAP licensing is one of the most complicated and complex license metrics currently faced by software asset management … Read more
This independent review is part of our SAP Tool Review. Also participating are: Flexera Software [BEST IN CLASS] Snow Software Executive Summary Elevator Pitch Spider Licence for SAP powered by SecurIntegration is a SAP license … Read more