Thousands of companies are currently using SAP. Regardless of their size or industry, all companies are facing the enormous technological transition to S/4HANA, if they haven't already completed it. However, even if the transition has been completed, 80% of these companies have a lingering feeling that they may not have implemented something optimally for the future.
The reassuring information is that everyone can be helped. Those who still need or should switch and those who wish to take stock with a focus on the future.
In our recent webinars, we have described the complexity of the possibilities and how we, at VOQUZ Labs AG, have responded with our tool, visoryQ.
The basis of any strategic decision is a true understanding of the current inventory. That is usually clear to some extent. However, what is not truly known is the optimized version of the current inventory. This applies to shelfware, which can be identified based on existing processes, but also to important additional products. Furthermore, it includes what one would actually need in terms of user licenses, based on their actual activities and not just their permissions. This typically deviates significantly from the inventory that has been acquired from SAP over the years. Now it becomes even more challenging if new cloud solutions are being used, either fully or partially, or if an on-premise approach should be maintained. Should the old user license model be retained, should one switch to the new S/4HANA license models, or should RISE with SAP and the associated FUEs (Full User Equivalents) be considered?
In addition to these main tasks, there are a lot of smaller issues that can be nebulous for companies and can incur significant costs. Especially when it comes to covering HR processes for employees with SAP, there are real pitfalls that can be expensive.
To answer the question in advance, yes, visoryQ is a tool capable of absorbing all these possible processes and delivering the most efficient variants. But it gets even better. Inside visoryQ, there are already a number of cloud costs displayed in T-shirt prices, so that you can see indicative prices without extensive research and compare them with future offers.
SAP licensing rests on three pillars: product selection, deployment options, and license models. This guide explains how they shape your SAP contract – and how understanding them helps you determine your effective license position, avoid unnecessary software spending, eliminate shelfware, and stay compliant.
But what's even more important is the unique opportunity for companies to not see this technological transition as a burdensome "must" initiated by SAP, but to look beyond and see what the modern technology market has to offer. With these considerations, higher efficiency can be achieved in the future by streamlining processes or outsourcing them directly to AI-supported processes. It's not necessary to stay exclusively within the SAP product group; there are countless offerings in the market that can be seamlessly integrated into SAP processes at a fraction of the cost of SAP products and potentially interact with SAP processes much more cost-effectively, thanks to SAP's Digital Access. Digital Access doesn't consider users, but rather a specific group of generated documents that become chargeable if they have been created outside of SAP. This means many users can work with SAP outside of SAP without requiring a user license. Here too, we are able to advise companies accordingly and provide cost estimates.
So, the tasks may seem huge, but with us, you can face them calmly.
