A valid Usage Agreement provides the following benefits:

• Usage of our software to the extent defined by the Usage Questionnaire answers
• Access to the QuantityWare service portal, providing:
  • Ticketing system for issue reporting and resolution
  • Self-service usage key generation
    (for every requested SAP System within the scale of the agreement)
  • Portal user management
  • Installation files
  • Maintenance files
  • Agreement data
• Maintenance request support (see here for details and priorities).
• Upgrade rights (i.e. from BCS 30A (NetWeaver) to BCS 30B (S/4)).

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Yes! Follow the appropriate path:

• Prospective customers can first apply for non-obligatory, fully-functional test usage keys for up to two SAP Systems, without charge, which can be requested online via our Service Portal.
  All BCS pricing information for productive usage is openly available in the pricing section of our website.

• Existing customers should follow the Portal Systems Manager documentation – Do not submit a Test Usage Key Request form (TUKR).

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From the earliest days, we have made a Value Proposition document available to our customers – it can be found in the Knowledge Base and lists all benefits from the offloading of development cost and maintenance to GRC aspects.

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From a BCS measurement standard point of view (considering the basic thermodynamical properties of temperature, density, pressure / vapor pressure) , LPG and NGL (high vapor pressure) are covered by the same group of supported BCS measurement standards*. Thus, either a BCG or a BCP license is required for quantity conversions of LPG and NGL, but not both.
From a business point of view, cosidering the financial values, there are considerable differences:

• In a nutshell, LPG are – from the business point of view (in many countries) – 

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Maximum Support – Minimum Hurdle

Sometimes prospective customers ask us why is there such a large “step” in our pricing matrix between the “National / Simple” and “National / Standard” positions. As our prices are openly available on our website,  we have decided to publish this question and its answer in a public text as well.

SAP Oil & Gas customers have always had to use a third party solution for bulk goods quantity conversion calculations.

We have always aimed to serve the entire industry with our solution,

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