With this service SAP provides professional expertise remotely or on-site to assist customers with their transformation journey and will provide a tailored concierge service that helps to simulate and optimize existing and future user license requirements.

During the engagement SAP will also utilize the Object Analyzer. This SAP developed tool links a standard rule-set which matches the existing authorizations to the new SAP S/4HANA types.

The service will be adapted to the unique starting point of the customer's transformation journey.

Details

Business needs
  • Provides transparency of future use requirements based on a data-driven approach.
  • Tailored guidance and support from SAP experts.
Delivery approach and scope
  • Tailored and transparent engagement between SAP and the customer.
  • SAP will guide the customer through all four steps of the process.
  • Interactive and iterative approach customized to meet the unique business needs and requirements of each customer.
Value and benefits
  • The service provides guidance and insight into a customer‘s specific SAP User migration path based on an overall SAP system authorization analysis.
  • Includes a joint review and evaluation of the results.
  • Provides a detailed report documenting the results and scenarios analyzed. 

Process flow

Request

Customer requests the SAP STAR service using the request form

Prepare

SAP schedules an introductory call to align on the service delivery process: 

  1. timeline 
  2. delivery approach
  3. service deliverables

Customer implements the simulation report via note in the system(s)

 

Execute

Customer runs the report and shares the initial results with SAP

SAP schedules a meeting to jointly review the results based on the technical scenarios

 

Report

SAP provides an evaluation report including all steps, parameters and approaches that were used in the analysis

 

Request form

For customers:

To request the SAP S/4HANA Trusted Authorization Review Service, please fill out the Request Form(opens in new tab) and click "Submit".

 

For partners/SAP employees:

If you wish to request the SAP S/4HANA Trusted Authorization Review Service on behalf of the customer, please download and fill out the 
Request Form and send it to adoption.insights.services@sap.com.

MOON - Minimize Overhead, Optimize Need

SAP Security Consulting is an international team of experts who work closely with SAP Product Development and SAP Product Management to offer customers advice based on SAP Best Practices. In addition to MOON services based on SAP Authorizations, SAP Consulting also addresses topics such as Compliance, AI Security, Technical Security, Identity and Access management, Risk and Assurance Management and consulting for SAP-specific security products.

MOON License Analysis

In SAP S/4HANA, license types are fundamentally redefined — now determined by user authorizations. The “MOON License Analysis” service delivers the complete factual basis for this: it combines a transactional license simulation (a first indicator within days) with a trace-based authorization analysis at object level after a few weeks of tracing (4-6 weeks).

The result quantifies your savings potential before any structural optimization is initiated — with no changes to your system. A solid decision basis for the follow-up steps to optimize license costs — through adoption or redesign of the authorization concept.

MOON License Quickfix

The “MOON License QuickFix” service quickly turns the findings from the “MOON License Analysis” into savings. Based on your existing authorization concept, we achieve QuickWins in license-type categorization — by reducing values and adapting authorization objects.

The focus is on fast results and a fast return on investment with minimal overhead: existing roles are adapted rather than rebuilt. Involvement of your IT department is kept to a minimum, and no involvement of your business department is required.

MOON License Service

The “MOON License Service” is the comprehensive offering to redesign your authorization concept and precisely tailor authorizations to actual need — delivering efficient license management and enhanced security in a single service.

It is built on a proven SAP Best Practice methodology with a high level of automation, powered by SAP AI Core (synchronization from SAP Signavio possible). The service covers Scoping, Functional Role Definitions, Organizational Role Definitions and role assignment with regard to the license type. This minimizes effort, cost, and duration in S/4HANA implementation, conversion or ERP authorization-redesign projects.

A future-ready authorization concept with maximum license efficiency and improved security — automated and best-practice-based. Optionally builds on a “STAR Service” or a “MOON License Analysis”.

For more information do not hesitate to contact ussecurity.consulting@sap.com