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Latest News: SAP Intelligent RPA is now part of RISE with SAP and offers a new pricing model
If you want to succeed in today’s world, you have to constantly adapt your business. Planning for this continual evolution requires that you not only be ready for change, but that you change the way work gets done.
This demands a redesign of your business plans and processes, and that demands new thinking and new technologies that unlock new ways of doing business.
RISE with SAP supports you to transform your business
RISE with SAP is an offer that brings together everything you need to transform your business in the way that works best for you.
RISE with SAP is a single offering that provides a path to the Intelligent Enterprise for every customer, independent of starting point or complexity. Offered on a subscription basis, it features one responsible party for service-level agreement, operations and support. The holistic approach will help companies truly transform their business, going beyond a technical migration to the cloud to enable continual transformation.
What is included in RISE with SAP?
Business Process Intelligence: Process Discovery
Learn about our latest acquisition and get started with business process intelligence. Gain insights into end-to-end process performance with process analytics and real-time monitoring, and drive process improvements by automating tasks and workflows.
Embedded tools and services
Leverage a set of preparational, analytical, and enabling tools and services to facilitate a seamless transition from your current ERP environment.
Consumption credits for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
Choose how to spend cloud credits, monitor real-time service usage to better understand project costs, and only get charged for what is used with consumption credits for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
SAP Intelligent RPA as part of RISE with SAP
As SAP Intelligent RPA is part of the BTP it is automatically included in the RISE with SAP contract. Every customer can start to automate process using the provided cloud credits for SAP Intelligent RPA.
SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation uses intelligent bots to automate repetitive manual processes. As the robotic process automation layer of SAP’s Business Technology Platform, it can redirect resources to high-value activities and processes.
Automate repetitive manual processes by creating, scheduling, managing, and monitoring intelligent bots. With SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (SAP Intelligent RPA) services, you can redirect resources toward high-value activities and processes.
Reduce the presence of repetitive and manual activities
Systematize time-consuming, manual activities by developing bots that support error-free, scalable tasks and help you focus on high-value processes.
Make customers happier with a better experience
Bring a new level of operational speed and efficiency to respond to customer needs proactively and augment resources to address more high-value tasks.
Reinvent processes and improve continuously
Cut across organizational barriers while driving optimal process models for maximum efficiency and taking advantage of intelligent bots to make more intelligent decisions.
Predefined S/4HANA automations
In the SAP Intelligent RPA bot store customers can find predefined content for S/4HANA and other SAP solutions to have a jump start in their automation journey.
New Pricing for SAP Intelligent RPA
SAP introduces a new metric and pricing for SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation effective January 25, 2021. SAP will change the metric from Transactions to Concurrent Sessions:
Concurrent Sessions (CS) are the aggregated number of sessions accessing the cloud service at any one time.
A session refers to the time between logon and logoff or time out where a unique user, application, bot, or platform accesses the cloud service either directly, or indirectly via a custom application.
Concurrent Sessions count the maximum number of bots (aka as scripts, automations etc.) which are executed simultaneously. Attended and unattended concurrent sessions are counted separately.
Service Plan for Attended Bots
Service Plan for Unattended Bots
Access to Cloud Studio and Control Room is included. The developer license includes now also the execution of the bot as an execution of a bot in test mode will not count as a concurrent session.
Availability
SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation is available as subscription and via the Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA).
For more details on the available service plans and prices visit the SAP Discovery Center.
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Hello Peter,
Just to confirm: These Service Plans are separated licenses? (E.g. If a customer wants to have one attended and one unattended robots he has to buy two licenses one for attended and one for unattended?)
Best regards
Marek
Hi Marek,
that is right. The license is separated and a customer with attended and unattended use cases has to buy both licenses.
Br,
Peter
Dear Peter,
What is the best way to estimate the license cost with the new pricing model? What all parameters, criteria, services to consider while proposing iRPA license cost? The old model was comparatively easy.
Thanks,
Lalit
Hi Lalit,
I think you need more or less the same information as for the transaction based licensing. Two examples how you can calculate.
Attended bots: Number of users, number of executions per day/hour per user, duration of the bot execution.
Example: 55 users = 6 blocks of attended license as first estimate. 12 minutes of bot runtime per user and hour = 660 minutes per hour -> minimum 11 concurrent sessions needed -> 2 blocks. Depending on availability needs 2 to 6 blocks needed.
Unattended bots: Total of execution runtime over all bots per day. Need for parallel execution. Number of process to automate e.g. order capture, order fulfilment, goods receipt etc.
Example: 5 processes to automate -> 5 unattended licenses. All bots running 40 hours -> 2 unattended licenses. Depending on parallelization needs 2 - 5 licenses needed.
Br,
Peter
Dear Peter,
the link (https://www.sapstore.com/solutions/42831/SAP-Intelligent-Robotic-Process-Automation) shows that the license are sold in block of 1 concurrent session and your blog shows in block of 10 CS. Requesting you to provide further details to avoid any miscalculations.
Also just a quick question - Is the old pricing model is still valid or its completely being replaced with CS based model?
Hi Lalit,
for subscription it is completely replaced. If you use a CPEA contract you have a choice.
Br,
Peter
Thank you Peter. Can you pl. also comment on the number of blocks query?
in blocks of 10 for attended and in blocks of 1 for unattended concurrent sessions.
Thanks again.
Hi Peter,
I want to procure SAP IRPA Licence, but got confused about certain things like below:
1. Difference between CPEA, PAY-GO, and SUBSCRIPTION.
2. Difference between Attended, Unattended, and SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation Service Plan.
3. What is the meaning of Range and why cost increases as the range decrease?
Could you please explain in detail, which will be more helpful to me.
Thanks in Advance
Hi Sai,
CPEA: With this contract type you do not purchase directly a specific service on the Business Technology Platform (BTP). You get Cloud Credits which then can be used to consume any service on the BTP. You have to pay upfront and then you consume this Cloud Credits in the next 12 months.
Pay Go: Here you close a contract without upfront commitment. You can again use every service on BTP and get an invoice based on your consumption of the service. Based on the fact that there is no upfront commitment the prices are 30% higher as with the CPEA or a subscription.
Subscription: With the subscription you purchase one or more dedicated services for a defined time (12/24/36 months).
Range: We have for all contract types a tier pricing in place. This mean as more you purchase as cheaper the price. Example: You purchase 10 unattended concurrent sessions then you have to pay 10x300EUR/per month = 3.000 EUR per month.
The transaction metric is for new customers only available via CPEA and Pay Go.
If you need more information follow me in the community and send me a personal message. Then we discuss this in more detail.
Br,
Peter
Peter, Thanks a lot!