Xpandion's Guide to SAP Systems

Optimize Licensing Costs. Increase Security.

Administrator — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Increased licensing costs. Security. Breaches. Hackers. Budget cuts. Downsizing.

These are amongst some of the most worrying words that enterprises and managers can hear. And, yet, they are a part of day to day terminology- whether whispered behind soundproof board room doors, discussed openly by upper management or colleagues addressing them casually over the water cooler. Whether we like it or not, these issues are front and center, day in, day out. <...

How to Become a Successful Security/Authorization Manager

Administrator — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:00:00 +0100

The more Security and SAP Licensing Managers that Xpandion works with, the more confirmation we receive that there is a distinct difference in the actions taken by successful managers vs. unsuccessful managers. Using ProfileTailor™ Dynamics/ LicenseAuditor these successful managers implement specific action items which are the only ones possible to increase ROI and decrease TCO in the world of SAP.

Part 1 - Immediate Impact Projects

No matter what company t...

Concurrent Licenses

Administrator — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:00:00 +0100

Although this topic may generate a lot of excitement among some of you – it's not a formal SAP licensing type (yet). However, it might make sense to consider it, since using LicenseAuditor, we often see organizations of 10,000+ SAP users with a daily average use of only 800 actual users - or less. These organizations have recently started to talk with us and SAP about licensing according to concurrent users.

What is licensing by concurrent users?

In this method of...

Office Space- A funny movie about hackers or a real life security threat?

Administrator — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:00:00 +0100

Though most SAP programmers are reliable, serious professionals, there are a few who are intent on harming their organizations – and because of these few, we are rightfully afraid of the power of SAP Programmers. They almost always have a significant number of authorizations in the production system - and access to almost every part of the system.

Because of this clear threat, for the last few years I have been a strong advocate in pushing the idea that programmers shouldn't h...

When SAP® users get sleepy

Administrator — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:00:00 +0100

“Dormant” SAP users

Some licensing-optimization tools for SAP, including ProfileTailor™ LicenseAuditor claim that they can identify “dormant user accounts”. Some customers don’t understand what this means and say – we identify dormant user accounts by ourselves – just look at table ‘USR02’ and see the “last logon date” – what more do I get from Xpandion?

To expand a bit about a “Dormant User Account” and share Xpandion’s view of this term, I want to emphasize how yo...