Soterion's SAP License Manager reached 100 FUE audits; legacy role designs overstate licensing needs about fourfold before ECC migration deadlines hit.
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Soterion on Monday said its SAP License Manager completed its 100th Full User Equivalent (FUE) licensing assessment, a year after the module was released. Across that first set of engagements, legacy SAP role designs typically overstated FUE requirements by about four times, Soterion said.
The overstatement carries a direct cost because SAP Cloud ERP Private bills through the STAR framework, where FUE consumption is set by the authorisations assigned to users, not by whether those authorisations are ever used. Most legacy SAP role designs were built without FUE optimisation in mind, so many organisations consume more FUEs than their employees actually need.
User licences usually account for 30 to 60 percent of an organisation's total SAP software spend, and FUE consumption is measured monthly for the life of the subscription. An inflated starting point, or role changes that go unmanaged, creates both higher subscription charges and exposure to future true-up bills.
Soterion's License Manager analyses actual SAP authorisation usage rather than assigned access. The tool reports the FUE consumption of the current role design and the reduction available from role remediation, with a best-case estimate based on how users genuinely interact with SAP.
Customers have used the visibility before entering commercial negotiations with SAP, Soterion said. Those already on Cloud ERP Private have run remediation programmes to align FUE consumption with contracted entitlements and to manage usage across the subscription term. Soterion, founded in 2011, sells GRC and SAP FUE licensing software and converts technical authorisation data into business terms. The company also offers a complimentary FUE assessment to organisations preparing to negotiate or manage Cloud ERP Private subscriptions.
The milestone comes during the push by SAP to move customers off ECC before support deadlines. SAP has been steering those customers onto Cloud ERP Private, where licences are measured under the STAR framework. AlphaScala's Alpha Score for SAP shares is 54 out of 100, labelled Mixed.
'SAP's STAR rule set is actually very fair. I would even argue that it is relatively lenient,' said Dudley Cartwright, CEO and co-founder of Soterion. 'The real challenge is that most organisations have not had the time, or the tools, to redesign their SAP roles with FUE optimisation in mind.'
Cartwright said completing 100 assessments in the first year shows the scale of the challenge, and that effective FUE management has become an essential part of a successful migration strategy. He added that role design is now a financial control, since every change to a user's access profile can move both access risk and software licensing costs.
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