FAQ Solution Types and Charging Model

How do the SAP CAL Solution Types listed in the Key Concepts in SAP CAL Documentation relate to SAP CAL charging model? Which costs will I face for running a solution?

In general we offer two types of solutions:

1. Free solutions (no subscription needed) that come with community support and require only a cloud provider account
2. Solutions that are fully supported and are run with a SAP Cloud Appliance Library subscription (see SAP Store) and a product license

In all cases you need a hyperscaler environment to work with a solution from the catalog. You can use the function Calculate Costs in the UI to get an estimate of the infrastructure charges per solution, hyperscaler and location. The forecast refers to the official price lists and does not reflect individual contracts you might have with a hyperscaler. Note that a scheduling helps you to control costs.

1. Free Solutions

Free solutions come with dedicated Terms and Conditions which limit the usage of the solution. In general free solutions are not offered for any revenue generating purpose. All free solutions come with community support only, meaning that you can discuss possible issues here in our forum instead of contacting SAP Support.

The following solution types can be run for free:

• • Solutions with free trial period
  • Developer editions
  • Educational solutions

You don’t need a SAP CAL subscription package and a Product license to run free solutions but still need an account with a supported infrastructure provider (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform) at your own expense.

Solutions with free trial period

Duration of usage

These solutions can be used for free for 30 days. An instance started as a trial can be continued in subscription mode, the latest after 30 days. Otherwise the trial instance will be suspended.

Description

Trial solutions are for self education, for first hands on experience and first steps if you want to make sure that the solution provides the benefit you expect from it.

During the trial period a solution can be changed to a subscription solution by using the unlock functionality. You need a product license for the solutions and a SAP CAL subscription package which is available in SAP store. A check for both is performed in SAP CAL as soon as you choose unlock.

Terms and Conditions

According to the terms and conditions solutions in the trial period must not be used for:

• • Development, prototyping or proof of concepts
  • Hosting a training course or a workshop with employees, partners or customers
  • Applying commercial license keys or uploading data for production use to the trial systems
  • Demonstration of software to prospective customers
  • Benchmarking against competing third party products

An example of Trial Terms and conditions can be found here Trial License Agreement.

Developer Editions

Duration of usage

Developer Editions can be run with no time limit on their use.

Description

These solutions come with one, sometimes two users that are registered as developers. The intention of this offer is to support your self-education.

See also: How to request and install “Minisap” license keys

Terms and Conditions

According to the terms and conditions Developer editions may not be used for any type of non-development purposes. Section 3 of the developer terms and conditions summarizes the restrictions that apply for using the dev edition.

The developer Terms and Conditions are attached to this SCN article.

Developer Editions can not be continued as a subscription solution  at the moment. We are currently working on the legal framework to allow that.

SAP DEVELOPER CENTER – MASTER SOFTWARE DEVELOPER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Educational Solutions

Duration of usage

These solutions can be used for free for the period that is indicated in the Terms & Conditions document attached to it (usually for 90 days). In contrast to a solution with trial period an instance can not be continued in subscription mode. Educational solutions are often part of an openSAP training course or contain content that we would not like to offer in our subscription model.

Description

Educational solutions are often part of an openSAP training course or contain content that we would not like to offer in our subscription model.

Terms and Conditions

Terms and conditions of free trial period apply.

2. Solutions with SAP CAL Subscription

Duration of usage

There is no limitation for these solutions within SAP CAL; once you have deployed an instance of a solution in subscription mode you can run it as long as the product license you applied to the system is valid and as long as the usage is covered by a SAP CAL subscription. For purchasing SAP Cloud Appliance Library subscription packages visit SAP Store or contact your Account executive.

Description

There is also no limitation regarding usage scenarios of the solution. The usage is defined by the type of license key you apply to the system.

Most solutions can be used in a trial mode before unlocking them to be continued with a subscription. Unlocking can be done any time during the trial period. Of course a solution can be started in subscription mode from the beginning.

See also:

How to request and install product license keys for SAP solutions

We provide SAP Product support for solutions that run with a product license in accordance with the certification of the corresponding cloud provider. For more information see the following notes:

• • AWS: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1656099
  • Azure: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1928533
  • GCP: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2456432

Incidents can be reported in component BC-VCM-CAL. Please note that incidents referring to the cloud infrastucture provider have to be reported to the cloud provider support.

Cost elements:

• • SAP CAL Subscription
  • Infrastructure costs for Cloud Provider
  • SAP Product License (can be a test and demo license as well)

See also  SAP CAL Terms and Conditions