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Take Control of Your SAP Licensing

Discover how to optimize your SAP licensing models to maximize efficiency and savings by working with a trusted, independent advisory partner.

Remend will assess your current situation and then create a custom engagement that best suits your needs. This approach empowers you to implement the most appropriate software and licensing models to grow and evolve your business.

Questions to Ask:

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Are we fully utilizing the annual support we purchased?

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Can we validate our Bill of Materials (BOM)?

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What are the pros and cons of our contract and their impact on our operating model?

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What strategies can we employ to lessen compliance risks and related unexpected expenses?

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How can we enhance our bargaining power for renewal or additional purchases?

Shifting the Balance of Power

SAP no longer has to own you or intimidate you with audits. By collaborating with us, we will define your ERP roadmap, conduct scenario analysis on licensing, perform risk assessments and assist with negotiation strategies.

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RISE with SAP and S/4HANA

You may be feeling the pressure from SAP to switch to their cloud services, RISE with SAP and S/4HANA, but you may not be ready to move away from perpetual licensing.

It’s unsettling to be bullied into migrating your ERP functionality and services to a cloud option. It may be more expensive and labor-intensive, as well as force you into SAP partner-provided migration and implementation services.

Before you do anything, take a breath and contact us for an analysis to determine to find business efficiencies, reduce stress and realize budgetary savings in four steps:

Create a license baseline — Assess the current situation and identify opportunities for savings and risk mitigation.

Services & Solution Validation — Validate and optimize bill of materials (BoM) by evaluating architecture, interoperability, security, etc.

Strategy and Negotiation — Create and execute a negotiation strategy centered on the key terms and conditions valued by the stakeholders.

Vendor Relationship Management — Combine services in an ongoing managed service to ensure a positive and valuable relationship with SAP.

RISE with SAP

SAP is proactively offering unsolicited proposals, encouraging current customers to upgrade or migrate to the cloud with RISE with SAP. Are you considering your options and unsure of the next steps?

Watch this video to get some ideas on what to consider, then contact us to schedule a free consultation.

The Challenge with SAP

SAP’s lack of transparency allows them to control and lead your contract and service agreement negotiations, starting with the absence of publicly available pricing models. Nobody likes being in the dark when expenses are involved.

SAP is known to apply indirect access claims to encourage customers to adopt newer products, like S/4HANA. You need to be aware and prepared to push back to create and maintain the best plan for your business.

SAP’s customer experience is riddled with slow response times and inaccuracies. When you need help, you need help. Waiting for a call to be returned or sitting on hold for extended periods of time waiting for a live agent costs your business money and is inefficient.

Facts & Figures about SAP

52% of organizations have been audited more than 2x in the last 18 months.

80% of organizations exceed their cloud budget in the first 18 months.

ERP implementation has up to an 95% failure rate.

You have a 68% chance of receiving a software audit notice in the next year.

25% of software goes unused.

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Exercise caution when sharing your STAR/USMM/SLAW results with SAP. STAR uses object authorizations to determine usage types, not just your allocations. Many organizations are getting caught up in this and creating compliance leverage for SAP

Doug G.

Invictus Partners, CEO and President

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