NVIDIA, a long­time SAP cus­tomer, knows a lot about inno­va­tion. Known for its inven­tion of the Graph­ics Pro­cess­ing Unit, NVIDIA has dri­ven change in fields rang­ing from gam­ing and pro­fes­sion­al visu­al­iza­tion to self-dri­ving cars and cloud data centers. 

Remov­ing SAP Licens­ing Uncertainty

After build­ing an IT land­scape around its SAP ERP sys­tem for more than 20 years, with grow­ing com­plex­i­ties, inte­gra­tion tech­nolo­gies advance­ments, and lack of auto­mat­ic mea­sure­ments of the usage, it became chal­leng­ing for NVIDIA to keep track of its indi­rect use. That’s what drove Enter­prise Archi­tect Bala Gam­pa to pur­sue the SAP Dig­i­tal Access licens­ing mod­el. Once he learned of the Dig­i­tal Access mod­el and the incen­tives asso­ci­at­ed with the Dig­i­tal Access Adop­tion Pro­gram (DAAP), he real­ized that this new way of licens­ing the use of SAP appli­ca­tions would resolve this challenge. 

ASUG spoke with Bala to find out how the com­pa­ny went through the process of eval­u­at­ing the pros and cons of remain­ing with the tra­di­tion­al user-based licens­ing mod­el ver­sus mak­ing a move to dig­i­tal access.