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Day 1. SAM for SAP Practitioner Workshop. Welcome to the sam for sap practitioner workshop. Day 1. SAM for SAP Practitioner Workshop. Day 1 Goals. Gain understanding about SAP, SAP Licensing, SAM/SAP Challenges Gain understanding about the Dynamic Licensing (DLS)Suite product

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  1. Day 1 SAM for SAP Practitioner Workshop

  2. Welcome to the sam for sap practitioner workshop

  3. Day 1 SAM for SAP Practitioner Workshop

  4. Day 1 Goals Gain understanding about SAP, SAP Licensing, SAM/SAP Challenges Gain understanding about the Dynamic Licensing (DLS)Suite product How to create carry out an SAP Discovery and create a Baseline using the DLS How to carry out User Optimization, SAP Recycling and Retirement

  5. All about sap and theSAM Opportunity Alf Goebel, VP Global Sales & Marketing

  6. BREAK

  7. Intelligent licensing A brief introduction and overview of company

  8. Intelligent Licensing Company is focused solely on SAP market opportunity for Software Asset Management (SAM) and License Optimization Walnut Creek, CA – Hamburg, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland Development group has been focused here for more than 10 years

  9. The Dynamic Licensing Suite The Dynamic Licensing Suite (DLS) is the core product technology that collects, aggregatesand analyzes SAP usage data. The product can be used carry out Discovery, Baseline Inventory, Usage Optimization, License Retirement and Recycling, Role-Tuning and analysis of indirect SAP usage/access. It serves as a complement to a SAM advisory practice for SAP.

  10. Delivering Sam for SAP solutions through partners Software Asset Management (SAM) Advisory Services Consulting Partner Proprietary Rules Processes Reports & Analysis Rules Engine Economic Simulation Report Engine Technology Platform

  11. SAM for SAP

  12. SAM for SAP Rental model Partner “rents” our Dynamic Licensing Suite software for the duration of the project Pricing based on length of project, size of user base, scope of work Software expires at the end of project unless end-customer wants to purchase the Dynamic Licensing Suite for ongoing license management and SAM work

  13. SAM for SAP Reseller model Enterprise purchases a perpetual licenses for the Dynamic Licensing Suite software through our partner Pricing based on number of SAP users and number of systems Annual maintenance contract available for enterprise at 20% per year for updates, support

  14. Company partner Strategy Assure that our partners are provided the best Software Asset Management (SAM) tools for SAP Invest in training, deployment to assure that our partners and their clients can be very successful Intelligent Licensing will thrive if we accomplish the two above

  15. The dynamic licensing suite An overview

  16. The Dynamic Licensing Suite The Dynamic Licensing Suite (DLS) is the core product technology that collects, aggregatesand analyzes SAP usage data. The product can be used carry out Discovery, Baseline Inventory, Usage Optimization, License Retirement and Recycling, Role-Tuning and analysis of indirect SAP usage/access. It serves as a complement to a SAM advisory practice for SAP.

  17. The Dynamic Licensing Suite builds a database of SAP USERS and USAGE history

  18. The Dynamic Licensing Suite creates a holistic view of SAP users, user licenses, and usage. It does this by first aggregating data from dozens to hundreds of SAP satellite system

  19. Selective HR Data Change Document Data Last Login Data Transaction Data User Master Data ROLE information CCMS SYSTEM MEASUREMENT data

  20. The Dynamic Licensing Suite supports 3 distinct activities

  21. Aggregate-> Analyze-> Administer • Baseline Development • Detailed Usage Data • Logon History • Change Queue • Recommendations • License Recycle/Retire • Master User Data Changes • Duplicates • Logon Analysis • Rules Engine • Role Tuning • License Type Optimization • Indirect Access Analysis

  22. The DLS assembles a • comprehensive picture of actual • usage of the SAP systems…. • through the discovery process it can provide an baseline inventory of SAP users • it can help identify potentially duplicate, obsolete and erroneous SAP users and then recycle/retire licenses through user optimization. • It can “rightsize” SAP user license types based on actual user behavior to assure compliance and optimization • to provide self-audit insights including indirect usage

  23. Software asset management(sam) for SAP How the Dynamic Licensing Suite supports the Software Asset Management (SAM) process and practitioner

  24. DLS and The SAM LIFECYCLE • Dynamic License Suite can support SAM effort: • Discovery • Baseline • Metering • Optimization • Role Compliance • Retire • Recycle

  25. Understanding SAP usage is key 25

  26. 19770-1 SAM processes map to the Dynamic Licensing Suite Check-Up Clean-Up Tune-Up

  27. Lunch BREAK

  28. SAP Discovery, Baseline, User Optimization

  29. The Dynamic Licensing Suite builds a holistic view of SAP systems, Users and Usage.

  30. Menu Bar Toolbar Menu Tree

  31. The MENU on the left allows access

  32. The Dynamic Licensing Suiteprovides REPORTING capability The DLS Reporting capability can be accessed from the main menu on the left There are a comprehensive number of reports built into the product The reports can be viewed, printed or exported for additional analysis and presentation

  33. Reports are accessible through an SAP-Style interface

  34. Starting with Baseline Aggregation

  35. detailed SAP baseline (user list)

  36. DLS DEMO Reports -> Baseline Reports

  37. BREAK

  38. The user list report

  39. User • User List Report easy to access from DLS menu tree • Provides a detailed, comprehensive inventory of all SAP users across all defined SAP systems • Can be filtered, sorted and exported as a core starting block to begin SAM analysis

  40. User • Data in report can be sorted, filtered for easier analysis • With appropriate access privledges, user can update User Master Data directly from the report • Comprehensive user information is aggregated into one tabular report and can be exported

  41. DLS DEMO Reports -> User List

  42. BREAK

  43. Sap user optimization Identifying obsolete and erroneous users

  44. Obsolete, duplicate users Obsolete/Erroneous users – name changes, retired/fired employees, wrongly allocated – key indicator is last login Duplicate User Names – Multiple administrators allocating accounts, Mergers/Acquisitions -- Look for same emails, similar names, transposed names

  45. Actional Analysis Concept

  46. Obsolete users After DLS has been installed and interconnected to other SAP Servers…a Logon Analysis Report is used “Show me users that have not logged on to SAP system for X months or more” … You can zoom in, shift them all to a change queue for batch revision– test or expired …

  47. Logon Analysis

  48. Rules Engine is key to automating process of cleaning up SAP Users Day 2 goes into detail on this, kicking off with Chief Architect of the Dynamic Licensing Suite showing the power of the Rules Engine

  49. HANDS On lab Classroom Exercises

  50. 1. Log into the SAP system 1. Invoke SAP Login from Windows 2. Select SAP System to log into 3. Type in User ID and password

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