SAP S/4HANA Product Conversion
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- Kind
- Perpetual + maintenance
- Term
- One-time conversion per line item; dual use rights until completion of transition (SAP News, 2020-02-11).
- Aliases
- Product conversion
- Definition
- Line-item conversion of classic SAP Business Suite engines into their SAP S/4HANA equivalents under the customer's existing contract and SUR, described in SAP's October 2020 S/4HANA on-premise licensing overview.
- Commercial rules
- Per SAP's 2020 overview: 100% line-item credits; customer keeps the same contractual agreements and SUR; cannot convert into products not already owned; requires line-item mapping; maintenance base carries forward at 100% and may never be reduced; no partial conversions; can be combined with the Cloud Extension and On Premise Extension policies; no conversion of SAP Named Users except Retail, Banking, Healthcare/Clinical and Industry Named Users when their engines convert. The overview states the 100% credit applied in 2020 and was "tbd in 2021".
- Applies to
- Existing SAP ERP customers with a current support agreement moving to S/4HANA on-premise in phases.
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