SAP experts are doubting the enterprise software giant's message that it is simplifying licensing after the changes were discussed at the German-speaking user group conference.

One licensing expert said SAP was trying to split the market for net new customers and existing customers with its changes, while encouraging them to move to the cloud, invoking nostalgia by resurrecting the Business Suite moniker, well known 20 years ago. Another analyst said SAP's definitions of public and private cloud lacked a meaningful definition.

Last week, German-speaking user group DSAG called for licensing transparency after the ERP vendor ended its RISE with SAP product package, replacing it with SAP Cloud ERP Private package , with pricing based on the Full-Use-Equivalent metric (FUE), which differs fr

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