RISE Right: How to Avoid FUEing Up Your S/4 Licensing

Tuesday 18th March | 2pm AEDT | 11am MYT | 11am SGT

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Please note this webinar will be hosted by the SAP Australian User Group (SAUG). SAUG will send the joining details one day prior to the event. Additionally, registration for the webinar will close on Friday, 14th March at 11:59 PM AEDT. 

Considering RISE with SAP? Ensure your organisation is positioned to optimise costs by aligning roles and authorisations with actual business usage and security priorities. By streamlining user access and managing data growth, you can significantly reduce both upfront and ongoing subscription expenses.

The new SAP licensing models directly link Full User Equivalents (FUEs) to infrastructure and memory sizing—factors that heavily influence subscription costs. Depending on your approach, these changes can either drive efficiencies or lead to substantial overpayments.

RISE with SAP introduces a multi-layered licensing framework, including:

• User license fees based on assigned authorisation levels rather than traditional system usage metrics.

• Infrastructure sizing tied to FUE’s potentially requiring additional memory blocks and infrastructure scale-outs.

• Derived pricing models on solutions like High Availability, Disaster Recovery, etc.

Misalignment in these areas can inflate licensing and infrastructure costs while increasing compliance and audit risks.

By thoroughly auditing user access and right-sizing roles and authorisations to reflect actual business activity, organisations can unlock material and time-sensitive savings. This is especially critical if you are planning an S/4HANA transformation, evaluating RISE with SAP, or preparing for license fee negotiations.

Join us to:

• Decode SAP's evolving licensing model and its cost implications for your business.

• Identify strategies to avoid overpaying for SAP licenses and strengthen your negotiation leverage.

• Implement governance best practices to enhance cost efficiency and mitigate risk throughout your S/4 transformation or RISE implementation.

• Reduce both initial and ongoing costs by optimising the in-memory data footprint and managing infrastructure growth through data minimisation.

• Build a compelling business case for robust security and access controls as drivers of cost savings, operational efficiency, and improved user experience.

Speakers:

• Mark Frear, General Manager, Chrome Consulting

• Doug Gibson, Managing Partner, Invictus Partners 

• Ed Davis, Managing Director APAC, Turnkey Consulting