When the use of RPA can generate non-compliance in SAP licences® e come impatta sui costi
With the rise of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) applications accessing management software (SAP®, for example) to automate tasks, to automate tasks, companies could risk non-compliance violations for not licensing their use correctly.
It is a central theme in the digital age, given the growing importance of "intelligent" bots and automatons in digital transformation. Even those companies that do not yet use them, see RPA in their future and study projects to drive innovation in the company.
Not considering RPA in licence management could easily lead to unforeseen costs: an audit in a situation that is not fully managed most often leads to the detection of non-compliant situations in the allocation of licences, which usually result in heavy and, above all, unbudgeted disbursements.
In 2018, SAP® introduced Digital Access, a new licensing model for indirect access that also considers RPA. As the adoption of the financially facilitated programme to adopt it (the Digital Access Adoption Program) expires at the end of December, we decided to take a closer look at the impact of RPA on SAP® licensing and the strategies you should adopt to calculate your risk factor.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA): what is it?
Gartner says that "hyper-automation" will become a "survival condition" for companies.
RPA is nothing more than the robotic automation of processes through the use of software “smart”. Bots, interfaces, applications... they can execute partially or fully automatically repetitive tasks by imitating the behaviour of operators and interacting with management software in exactly the same way as a human being would.
They are useful in any field (IT, sales, customer service, etc.), even with very different objectives. The use of RPAs has the following benefits: