back to article Nearly 90% of SAP customers find its cloud pricing confusing

SAP users don't understand the software giant's cloud pricing and more than half think the firm is not offering enough incentives to move online. Eighty per cent of customers don't understand how to upgrade from SAP's on-premises suites to its On Demand offerings or how to combine the two, according to research by the UK and …

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  1. Magister

    Yeah, right

    "SAP told The Reg it was "actively discussing" ways to make its software licensing easier to understand"

    Discussing yes; planning to do anything about it... another matter entirely.

    As for moving to their cloud offering, all the prices that I have seen so far would indicate a massive jump in costs for most companies. It's true that there are some benefits to be had, but I would question if more than a few would ever actually see those.

    But no doubt there are businesses that will ignore advice from those that know about these things, move across and then wonder why it turns into a major problem.

  2. Silverburn
    Happy

    SAP = confusing

    ..and this is news? You'll be claiming they're overpriced next...

  3. Chris Miller
    Devil

    The cost of implementing SAP?

    ~10x what you estimated/sold to the board in your cost-benefit analysis.

  4. Pete Smith 2

    Correction to the article.

    SAP users don't understand the software giant's cloud pricing.

    Fixed it for you.

  5. JeffyPooh
    Pint

    Step 1 - Calculate your organization's free cash

    Step 2 - Send it all to SAP.

    It's not the slightest bit confusing.

  6. kain preacher

    I must need glasses. I read it as 90% of SAP customers find SAP confusing.

  7. jonathanb Silver badge

    "We are now at the point where the benefits of cloud are well understood;"

    Can you explain them to me then. I understand the benefits of cloud to software companies, but not the benefits to end users.

  8. Mel Bournian

    Can't you make this fog more transparent, plead users

    Surely, if you make fog transparent it isn't really fog anymore.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    They are now directing towards Pentaho, Jasper, SaaS etc.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    You could take the word "cloud" out of the headline.

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