Keep using SAP for the back end and OutSystems for the front end and mobile or tablet apps is an approach that can speed up your digital transformation radically. Any kind of mobile- or web application can be integrated with SAP and complement your SAP environment to a modern and future-proof system.
A bunch of reasons leads our customers to choose a low-code platform like OutSystems on top of their SAP-landscape, such as:
-Short delivery time of mobile- and web applications
-Overall reduction of IT-costs
-New business model opportunities
-Increase efficiency of business processes
-Offering customer-friendly solutions
-Increase Developer Experience
Does this sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t! But nevertheless, there are some issues that should be carefully considered. One of them is how to deal with SAP’s license model which these pages are about.
It almost sounds to good to be true,
Connect, Search and use SAP Services in OutSystems. Is it really this simple. Off course nothing is ever as simple in the IT world. From a technical perspective usin a BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface is easy enough. But when you do apart fromtechnical and functional SAP knowhow there are some subjects that need thorough observation. One of them being the license of SAP.
SAP is renown for it's unclearity on licensing models, however with the new licensing they try to set foot in the new IT reality where AI , IoT, Robtized processes and Mobile apps forces SAP to rethingk the ERP core licensing strategy.
How does this new licensing model impact companies that run low-code platforms on top of SAP?
On these pages we are trying to give you a digest of the implications.
To read the full digest visit the SAP OutSystems linkedIn group or contact
B-Synergy for a license & security audit