ERP software represents a major financial and operational investment for any organization implementing such systems. Given the long-term impacts of an ERP purchase, license and pricing negotiations ...

As someone who follows the software licensing market and who is also partial to the odd pint of Stella Artois, I have been following the AB InBev versus SAP case with considerable interest.

SAP customers are still concerned about the licensing costs of the migration from R/3 to mySAP Business Suite despite a recent meeting with the vendor to address their fears. The ERP specialist ...

Summary: Hot on the heels of SAP's major licensing and audit announcements, a group of analysts and influencers found ourselves in New York City with the chance to press the issue in person. Here's my ...

SAP users have been crying out for greater flexibility over terms and conditions for a long time. The supplier appears to be heeding their calls. More movement from SAP over the vexed question of ...

Last month, SAP released a streamlined Digital Access Adoption Program, intended to clarify (and reduce costs for) its indirect access licensing. The release followed SAP’s introduction of ...

SAP customers for years have said the company’s pricing is too complex. In October 2012, then co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe told IDG News Service the company had heard customers’ concerns and was working ...

Diageo ruling in UK’s High Court may have repercussions globally. SAP customers should review their SAP license agreements and deployments of third party systems that interface with SAP software to ...

SAP’s named-user licensing fees apply even to related applications that only offer users indirect visibility of SAP data, a U.K. judge ruled Thursday in a case pitting SAP against Diageo, the ...

The German-speaking SAP user group’s annual conference focuses on navigating the challenges of cloud migration despite convoluted SAP licensing policies. SAP’s licensing policies are top of mind at ...