Xpandion Blog Collateral Damage from SAP Indirect Access Threats

Recently we hear about large SAP accounts being accused of not paying license fees to SAP for accessing their system using third party applications. The most known example case is SAP vs. Diageo from February 2017 (click here), but more recently another case has made headlines. SAP is accusing brewing company Anheuser-Busch (click here) of similar practice. In SAP jargon this is called "Indirect Access" and we, at Xpandion started hearing about this from our customers around the world approximately 3 years ago. Being that we are a software vendor used for optimizing SAP licensing, we couldn't ignore this issue therefore we created a special extension for Indirect Access so customers may assess their risk and know what they might face in case of an SAP audit.Read more