In my role as CIO of John­sonville, I am ana­lyz­ing indi­rect access, the impact of dig­i­tal access licens­ing, and the pros and cons of adopt­ing SAP’s new licens­ing mod­el. I have com­mit­ted to doc­u­ment­ing that process and shar­ing insights with you in a series of blog posts.

In my first post, I pro­vid­ed some back­ground and laid out Johnsonville’s high-lev­el approach to the process. In my sec­ond post, I walked through the actu­al steps John­sonville took to get a first-pass esti­mate of our doc­u­ment counts. In my third post, I recapped insights and addi­tion­al ques­tions that result­ed from my meet­ing with the SAP Glob­al License, Audit, and Com­pli­ance (GLAC) and Pric­ing teams. In my fourth post, I brought clo­sure to a num­ber of open ques­tions and issues out­lined in my pre­vi­ous posts. 

An Update on Johnsonville’s Dig­i­tal Access Journey 

It has been quite a few months since my last blog post chron­i­cling Johnsonville’s jour­ney to eval­u­ate the new SAP Dig­i­tal Access mod­el. In ear­ly Octo­ber, John­sonville con­vert­ed to the Dig­i­tal Access mod­el to sup­port the inte­gra­tion of our expand­ing port­fo­lio of best-of-breed solu­tions and extensions.