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.