Due to the sophistication and complexity of the SAP® licensing model, organizations struggle with the management of their SAP licenses. In order to optimize their SAP investment they need a solution that provides real-time visibility of actual SAP license usage.
LicenseAuditor, Xpandion’s advanced solution for optimizing SAP licenses, enables the smart purchase of future SAP licenses, as well as the intelligent management of dormant, underused, misclassified, and duplicate accounts.
LicenseAuditor is especially useful prior to ordering new SAP usernames, and before annual license fee negotiations
BENEFITS
Allows full control of SAP usage and licensing
Provides usage reports of each user’s activities
Enables full customization of activity groups
Identifies unused, underused, incorrectly classified and duplicate accounts
Ongoing management and control of SAP license and maintenance costs
External to the SAP system, requires no changes in SAP
KEY FEATURES
Detects dormant accounts/users with no activity, unused authorizations, and users with low usage
Identifies and alerts to simultaneous usage of SAP license by same user on multiple computers, preventing double payments for same username
Enables full customization of activity groups, including creation of new groups, changing existing groups, adding activities for different roles and supporting different licensing types
Helps reclassify SAP users according to actual daily usage, eliminating licenses for users with no - or low – activity
Enables SAP License Managers to work more effectively - and to guide the enterprise in understanding and optimizing SAP licenses
Enables an instant snapshot of license usage, and can analyze as far back as a year or more - on the day of installation
Enables full customization of activity groups – which are groups of different activities that fit different license types - including creation of new groups, changes in existing groups, and adding company-developed activities (Y, Z) to current groups