Most enterprises buy SAP advisory from firms that also resell SAP, implement SAP, or sit on an SAP partner program tier. SAPAudits does none of that. We are an independent firm. Our only revenue comes from our clients. That structural choice is the entire foundation of our advice.
We work on two sides of the SAP estate. On the commercial side, we advise on SAP license consulting: audit defense, license optimization, indirect and digital access exposure, renewal negotiation, S/4HANA contract design, and M&A licensing. On the technical side, we deliver SAP security consulting: GRC and access control, segregation of duties, authorization design, SOX scoping, security hardening, and penetration testing.
Our clients are CIOs, CFOs, procurement leaders, internal audit teams, and SAP basis and security directors at large enterprises. They come to us when the numbers matter and the answer needs to be defensible to a board, an auditor, or SAP itself.
What independence actually means
Independence is a word that gets used loosely in SAP advisory. We define it precisely. SAPAudits holds no SAP partner agreement at any tier. We do not resell SAP licenses, RISE subscriptions, cloud subscriptions, or any third party software that touches the SAP estate. We accept no referral fees, kickbacks, rebates, or commissions from SAP or any other vendor.
That structure matters because it determines what advice we can give. When a partner firm advises on a renewal, they often have visibility into how their own SAP partner standing will be affected by the outcome. When SAPAudits advises on a renewal, the only variable in the equation is the client cost.
If we recommend a tactic that reduces SAP spend by 35 percent, the only entity that loses revenue is SAP. SAPAudits gains nothing beyond its agreed advisory fee. That alignment is rare in this market and we protect it deliberately.
How we work
Every engagement is led by a senior advisor. There are no junior staff fronting client work and no learning curve billed to the client. Our practitioners average over twenty years of SAP experience and have negotiated, defended, or hardened SAP estates across banking, manufacturing, retail, pharma, energy, and the public sector.
We follow a defined methodology on every engagement. For SAP audit defense, we run our own LAW measurement and license model reconstruction before SAP requests anything. For indirect access, we map every integration touching the SAP estate and quantify exposure under both the historic named user model and the digital access document framework. For security, we test authorization roles against live transaction usage rather than relying on role catalog reviews.
What we deliver
Our outputs are evidence based and built to survive scrutiny. Common deliverables include:
- A reconciled license position statement showing exactly what the client owns, what is consumed, and where exposure exists
- A negotiation playbook for renewal or audit settlement, with defensible positions and concession ladders
- An indirect access exposure model with quantified options under SAP digital access pricing
- A risk ranked SoD findings report and remediation plan tied to actual transaction execution
- A penetration test report aligned to SAP threat patterns rather than generic application testing
Who we serve
SAPAudits engagements run across roughly 40 industries. We have advised firms running ECC, S/4HANA on premise, RISE with SAP, GROW with SAP, and hybrid landscapes. Engagement sizes range from focused 30 day diagnostic reviews to multi year program advisory. For a closer look at the discipline behind each engagement, the Why Independent page explains the operating model. The services overview covers the practice areas, and the white papers show how we think about specific issues.
