We currently use BO XI R2. Under our current license, only 20 people have access to create/view… WEBi reports. As a result of increased demand, management decided and purchased a new license - BOE Premium (CPU) XI3_1. As you can tell, it’s for Release 3. Is it going to be a problem as we use XIR2?
If it’s not a problem, the licese would allow as many users to view WEBi reports as CPU can handle. Could anyone let me know the process to set up new users/groups under new license?
According to the management, the new license only allows users to VIEW report, which is different to our current license. Is the setup process different in this case, anything I should be aware of?
Yes, you’re going to have a problem. Someone will need the right to create/edit.
YOu’ll have both licenses on the system. You will have to set up user rights to prevent them from doing what ehty shouldn’t. I don’t believe the software will stop them.
Based on other’s posts, I thought concurrent means the number of users can be connected at the same time, whick seems like the choice under CPU license.
No. There used to be 3 types of licensing: Named user, Concurrent user and CPU.
CPU is unlimited users, but the hardware is restricted. Named is 1 license per actual perso, but you can use as much hardware as you like. Concurrent, for a restricted number of users using the system at a time, but on as much hardware as you want.
The only thing I don;'t like about CPU is that you have to be licenses for development.
Concurrent user Licenses are again available if you qualify for BO Edge.
Historically you where supposed to have only named or CPU and not a mix (but we all know they have existed in the same deployment)
Another Issue I have with CPU is that 1 CPU is not 1 CPU. The rules about Cores of the CPU keeps on changing and the technology even faster now we have quad core and 8core and beyond on the way. In many cases SAP will ask you to license for these cores and not CPU’s. Depending on when you bought there was also a cap on the number of users one could define by CPU bought in general 500
When you have CPU licenses, you can only run on the number of CPUs you have purchased. You can’t just add servers/CPUs when you run out of capacity. If a server has 4 CPUs, you need a 4 CPU license. Your sales rep will tell you how multi-core CPUs are licensed. I believe each core counts as .75 CPUs. So a Quad dual-Core server requires 6 CPU license. But, that’s how it was a few years ago.
On the other licenses, you can add as many servers/CPUs as you want. You are paying for users.
One more question about license types. I came across some previous posts, it seems licensing are categorized by products as well? Such as license for WebI report, etc.
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