DSAG, the SAP user group for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has called for greater transparency in cloud licensing to enable the migration and upgrade of on-prem systems to the cloud.
Speaking ahead of the user group's conference, chairman of the board Jens Hungershausen agreed the cloud was the infrastructure most SAP users look to modernize in their application stack, but inconsistencies in licensing were making the transition more challenging than it could be. For many companies and organizations, the journey into the "new" SAP cloud world still begins with legacy SAP ECC or the "old" Business Suite, and even with the on-prem version of the latest ERP platform, S/4HANA. DSAG wants SAP to see cloud ERP as both private and public cloud.
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