PaaS Investment Optimisation

Whether you’re an SAP customer beginning your foray into SAP BTP, seeking clarity on how to structure your existing investment, or looking for forecasting support in advance of a renewal, we can help.

Xactitud helps SAP customers squeeze the maximum value out of their SAP BTP cloud credits by optimising deployed services and account structures and providing guidance on the optimal commercial model for your organisation.

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What is SAP BTP?

SAP Business Technology Platform ("BTP") is SAP's Platform as a Service ("PaaS"), comprising five pillars. These are Application Development, Automation, Integration, Data and Analytics and AI.

Launched in 2021 as part of SAP's strategy to unify multiple solutions into a single core platform, SAP BTP has evolved to enhance its integration capabilities, expand its relationships with cloud providers, and improve its data, analytics, AI and development functionalities.

SAP BTP has multiple commercial models and multiple feature sets. This, coupled with SAP BTP's hierarchical account structure and the varying levels of functionality and permissions within this structure, requires detailed forecast planning to ensure cloud credits are not only right-sized but purchased under the optimal commercial model.

Challenges

Commercial Model choices

Deciding on a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG), Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA), or Subscription depends on flexibility, functionality and cost control factors.

Cloud Credit Estimation

Estimating cloud credit consumption accurately is a complex task. Frequently, the amount required is over-estimated or under-estimated.

Consumption Transparency

Cloud credit usage can fluctuate wildly and quickly without proper oversight, and the actual consumption can vary significantly from initial estimates.

Account Administration

Juggling security controls, optimal credit allocation and usage reports across multiple sub-accounts, regions, and environments when designing the structure is challenging.

Ready to dive in but need assistance? Xactitud is ready to assist.

Xactitud supports SAP customers in making informed commercial decisions that maximise the value of their SAP BTP investment and mitigate risk.

Find Out How

Host Discovery Workshop to provide detailed insights on all licensing-related considerations for SAP BTP solutions.
Define use cases and your SAP BTP roadmap using SAP Discovery Center; align requirements with service availability.
Recommend optimal commercial model for requirements – PAYG, BTPEA or subscription.
Review paperwork and share cost-optimisation tactics e.g., free tiers, extension policies, fixed pricing, aggregate terms.
Identify optimal global/sub-account relationship and personnel to administrative privileges to at global, sub-account and optionally directories levels.
Assign entitlement quotas for service plans from global to directories and subaccounts.
Design governance guidelines for quota management, service on-boarding and off-boarding, usage reporting for subscription and consumption.
Explain how to monitor and analyse the monthly usage and costs of services consumed or do this on your behalf.
Identify risk areas relating to over or under-consumption and provide recommendations to address.

Benefits

Favourable Commercial Model

Xactitud helps SAP customers understand all available commercial models and whether PAYG, CPEA, BTPEA, subscription or a hybrid best suits your organisation's needs.

Effective Cloud Credit Management

We give you insight into how your SAP BTP cloud credits are used and set up governance to ensure they’re used appropriately by the right teams on the right initiatives.

Reduction in Overspend

Save money by only paying for the credits needed without wasted spend on over estimation of credits.

Streamlined Account Structure

Decide on access rights and privileges so that cloud credits are used appropriately and can be efficiently tracked and monitored.

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