There are over 100 different types of SAP licenses available which are designed to cater for a wide variety of systems, modules, industries and business models. Here are some of the most common:
- SAP Application Professional
- SAP Application Limited Professional
- SAP Application Employee
- SAP Application Developer
Understanding the SAP licenses applicable to your organisation is key to ensuring the right end-user categorisaton is applied. Using the SAP Application Limited Professional (as above) as an example; this type of end-user can perform limited functional operations only, and not System Administration. It can have only one changeable transaction, and the rest will all be display only transactions.
Industry specific licenses can significantly reduce overall licensing costs, such as SAP Retail Store User; SAP Health care User and Banking User.