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SAP licensing advisory and transition
Until 2027, SAP ERP customers need to have transitioned their contracts into to S/4HANA. eXpertaaS supports you in understanding your current licensing situation and handle your current and future licensing challenges, and transitioning your current contract into S/4HANA.
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Software Licensing
Organizing, structuring, and simplifying the complexity of software licensing challenges is one of our strengths. Be it licensing audits, missing licensing transparency, needs for optimizations, or M&A challenges – eXpertaaS guides and supports you to achieve results.
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Sourcing and Shoring
Tendering and evaluations (RFI, RFP, RFQ processes) can be very complex and time-consuming. eXpertaaS is working with you and proposes the best suitable sourcing approach and provides hands-on expertise and support along the entire evaluation process up to the detailed contract negotiation.
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SAP licensing advisory & transition
No matter in what situation you are currently, eXpertaaS supports you in all aspects of SAP licensing and contractual challenges. We help you either along the entire Journey from ECC to S/4HANA, from On-Premise to the Cloud, or support you in specific fields around licensing & transition.
Areas and typical challenges we are helping customers are indicated below.
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Understanding your SAP Contract
- What licenses do I own?
- What are the options I have with the licenses?
- Do I have the correct licenses to cover my usage?
SAP Audit Readiness
- Do I know whether I am correctly licensed?
- Am I ready for the next SAP Audit?
Contract Migration to SAP S/4HANA
- What do I need to migrate my contract to S/4HANA?
- What are my contract options?
- What do I need to consider when negotiating a new S/4HANA contract?
- How can I increase the value of my future contract?
- What negotiation support can I get?
Deployment Options for SAP S/4HANA
- Where will I run my S/4HANA software? On-premise, on a Hypervisor, in the cloud? Operated by myself, a system integrator, or SAP?
- How can I evaluate my options?
Contract negotiation Support
- How do I negotiate with SAP?
- How good is SAP’s offering? How can I validate it?
- What can I ask/get from SAP?
- Who can help me with the detailed contractual wording?
Audit Support
- How can I prepare for the next standard audit?
- How can I prepare for an onsite audit?
- How can I measure compliance?
- How can I ensure to stay compliant?
Indirect Access / Digital Access
- What is Digital Access?
- What option is the best for my situation?
- How can I benefit from the DAAP (Digital Access Adoption Program)?
Software Licensing
Organizing, structuring, and simplifying the complexity of software licensing challenges is one of our strengths. Be it licensing audits, missing licensing transparency, needs for optimizations, or M&A challenges – eXpertaaS guides and supports you to achieve results.
1. Evaluations / Tendering:
Evaluating the best suitable software for your needs, be it on the infrastructure software or business software side, be it in the cloud (Hosting, Software-as-a-Service SaaS) or be it on-premise (running in the own data center, or on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service IaaS, Platform-as-a-Service PaaS):
- Developing Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Information (RFP)
- Conducting the evaluation process (from RFI until the decision)
- Hands-on support for your contract negotiations with the vendors
2. Understanding your Software Contracts / Compliancy:
Due to the complexity and in most cases contracts that have been grown over sometimes decades customers have lack of insights into their contracts. eXpertaaS can help:
- Simplify the complexity of contracts and make transparent the relevant content of Software Contracts
- Verify the compliancy of the usage / installation of your software compared to the contract
- Support you during license audits implied by the Publishers (including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce and many others)
3. Contractual Change Adoptions:
Many customers are undergoing relevant changes during the lifetime of a software contract. We help you to analyse and adapt the necessary changes to the contracts:
- Negotiate contract extensions based on additional needs
- Negotiate contract reductions based on reduced need
- Consolidate contract based on mergers & acquisitions (including impact analysis)
- Splitting contracts based on divestitures
Sourcing and Shoring
The environment for companies and the market is changing constantly and as an effect increase the requirements for most businesses. At the same time, more service offerings are availabe in the market, be it as standardized services or services that can be tailored to customer’s needs.
eXpertaaS guides and supports you along the entire sourcing process – starting with the specification of your need, create tenders (RFI, RFP etc.), conduct and guide through evaluation processes and perfom (or support customer to do) vendor negotiations including contract negotiations. Areas of expertise include especially:
- Evaluation of Software Solutions
- Evaluation of SaaS Services
- IT Outsourcing / Partial IT Ousourcing
- Evaluation of Extended Workbench
- And many more
Book a meeting now with our experts to discuss how eXpertaaS can support your in your sourcing activities!
