UK, Ireland users call on SAP to extend indirect licensing deadline again as COVID-19 ravages project plans

The UK & Ireland SAP User Group has called on SAP to further extend its indirect software access licensing programme to give users time to respond to project timetables delayed by COVID-19. While welcoming SAP's recent decision to extend the Digital Access Adoption Program (DAAP) – the means by which users ensure software …

[steamnut]

A bit like Oracle?

The recent changes in the SAP licencing approach is beginning to look like the Oracle strategy. Bait your customers with lots of easy to try/use possibilities and then enforce the licence conditions with a hard approach with the "peace offering" of a "cloudy" solution. In the end, it's all about the money.

I have never come across a company that implemented SAP that was 100% happy. The trouble is most SAP users cannot see an easy way of getting rid of it either.

[Duncan Macdonald]

Does anyone (apart from SAP and consultants) benefit from using SAP ?

With the stories about the costs (financial, disruption and delays) of introducing SAP into an organization, who actually benefits from SAP ?

SAP also has a list of software that it depends on which is also costly such as Oracle.

What is the point in introducing SAP?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Does anyone (apart from SAP and consultants) benefit from using SAP ?

Replying. if you are a global company and want to get a software that complies with GDPR but also SOX, and has GL of Nigeria, US and Brazil for its finance data with legal and tax updates regularly, along with HCM of every country, SAP is your only option

For decisions like this, then you like more or less the interface, or the SAP account managers, or licenses, but the product is robust, complete

[big_D]

Re: Does anyone (apart from SAP and consultants) benefit from using SAP ?

i.e. it isn't good, but better than nothing.

A lot of smaller companies are also forved to use it, if they want to deliver to big business, they have to support SAP electronic data transfers, for example.

[Stu J]

Licensing indirect access per "user" is a fucking scam

That is all

[lorenzo_lamas]

SAP is a legit option

Replying. if you are a global company and want to get a software that complies with GDPR but also SOX, and has GL of Nigeria, US and Brazil for its finance data with legal and tax updates regularly, along with HCM of every country, SAP is your only option

For decisions like this, then you like more or less the interface, or the SAP account managers, or licenses, but the product is robust, complete