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Optimization for SAP

Optimize SAP licensing at your company
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Cut costs, ensure compliance 

Learn more about your licensing needs to boost the benefits from your SAP® investment. The USU solution Optimization for SAP® gives you transparency so your company only pays for what it really needs.

Each new day brings new changes in the SAP licensing estate as your company constantly reconfigures its large network of systems and user accounts. Let Optimization for SAP® cost-effectively manage your user and SaaS licenses and ensure you stay SAP compliant.

Optimization for SAP® license rules gives your SAP basis administrator the tools needed to determine individual license usage values for each SAP engine or package. The solution also lets your company simulate a migration to S/4HANA in terms of necessary licenses.

Get the latest information about SAP® engines and their metrics: Optimization for SAP® links your individual engine results to the relevant documentation in the SAP® support portal to put information right at your fingertips.

SAP Optimization

Draw on our experts’ SAP knowledge!

What’s possible in your relationship with SAP? And what isn’t? USU has more than 40 years’ experience analyzing usage within SAP environments and optimizing license management. Draw on our SAM experts’ knowledge about SAP contracts and what that means at your company — what can you cleverly prepare and report and what has worked for other companies?: Let us share our experiences and best practices with you:

Analysis of user rights and assigned user types
Indirect usage
Engine metrics
SaaS applications
Preparation and support for contract negotiations 

Draw on our SAM experts’ knowledge about SAP contracts and what that means at your company — what can you cleverly prepare and report and what has worked for other companies?: Let us share our experiences and best practices with you.

Your benefits

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Decrease in preparation time — freeing resources for other tasks

Verified for SAP License Management by ITAM Review 

ITAM Review has independently certified USU Optimization for SAP, verifying the solution meets the biggest challenges your company might face with SAP licensing. This includes ensuring compliance, optimizing licenses, identifying indirect access, and cost-effectively migrating to S/4HANA.

Save costs on S/4HANA migration

SAP wants to migrate its customers to S/4HANA as quickly as possible. But this time pressure increases your risk of paying more than you have to. Let Optimization for SAP analyze your current SAP environments so you can migrate cost-effectively. 

Simulates various scenarios to forecast your migration costs
Determines how many SAP Professional Use, SAP Functional Use, and SAP Productivity Use licenses you actually need
Automatically allocates the least expensive S/4HANA licenses in a product conversion to avoid pricey over-licensing
Uncovers all cost-saving potential in your current SAP environment for purchasing S/4HANA licenses
White Paper

SAP® Indirect Access vs. Digital Access

Control your risk and avoid extra costs using new SAP license management guidelines
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White Paper

SAP® License Management in a Digital World

SAP S/4HANA, Cloud, Indirect Access
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E-Book

The Complete Guide to Software Audit Defense

Beat your next audit! Being unprepared for a software license compliance audit drains resources for months and often ends with a hefty penalty bill.
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Learn more about our Optimization for SAP solution

Let us share our solution with you in a personal demo — at your convenience and with no obligation — at your location or ours or in a video conference! 

📢︎ Insights

Gartner Report: Build the Right Justification for Moving to the Cloud

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