Increased licensing costs. Security. Breaches. Hackers. Budget cuts. Downsizing.

These are amongst some of the most worrying words that enterprises and managers can hear.  And, yet, they are a part of day to day terminology- whether whispered behind  soundproof board room doors, discussed openly by upper management or colleagues addressing them casually over the water cooler.  Whether we like it or not, these issues are front and center, day in, day out.  

In these difficult economic times, corporations have downsized staff; eliminated raises and bonuses for existing employees and have halted purchasing of equipment.  As the hunt to find areas where corporate spending can still be cut, departments are fighting to reallocate costs to other departmental budgets or geographic locations.

The more Security and SAP Licensing Managers that Xpandion works with, the more confirmation we receive that there is a distinct difference in the actions taken by successful managers vs.  unsuccessful managers.  Using ProfileTailor™ Dynamics/ LicenseAuditor these successful managers implement specific action items which are the only ones possible to increase ROI and decrease TCO in the world of SAP.

Although this topic may generate a lot of excitement among some of you – it's not a formal SAP licensing type (yet). However, it might make sense to consider it, since using  LicenseAuditor, we often see organizations of 10,000+ SAP users with a daily average use of only 800 actual users - or less. These organizations have recently started to talk with us and SAP about licensing according to concurrent users.

Though most SAP programmers are reliable, serious professionals, there are a few who are intent on harming their organizations – and because of these few, we are rightfully afraid of the power of SAP Programmers. They almost always have a significant number of authorizations in the production system - and access to almost every part of the system.