ESS License Question

[kmoore007]

If I were to develop my own payslip interface, would I still be subject to ESS licensing when employees view their payslips?

If this is so, it would be better to just use the ESS payslip instead of a custom one, or not?

[kmoore007]

It sounds like you can develop your own custom web apps without using ESS licensing.

[ChrisSolomon]

Not sure of your question. If you were to develop it? You mean as a 3rd party? Then you need to look into becoming a certified SAP partner for development and go that route. IF you are talking for use for your own implementation, then it will depend HIGHLY on your contract with SAP and what constitutes "users" and your licensing. Personally, I think if it is the latter, it would be consider just typical custom development and nothing for you to get worried over licenses about.

[kmoore007]

Solomon,

Thanks for the reply. Let me try to explain my question more clearly for you.

If I use the SAP ESS application for displaying the employee payslip, I will need to get ESS licenses for all the employees for them to view their payslip.

• If I develop my own interface using a webservice to SAP to view employee payslips and use a single RFC user to access the R/3 system, am I still required to get licenses for these employees who will be viewing SAP data (payslip)?

[javed_shaikh]

Kennet SAP licenses are chargeable on the number of user id's you are using on your system,

for example when we went live we had limit of 10K users id's or licenses free after that for every single ESS user id we are paying.

So it is immaterail waht are the applications you are building insde the ESS or MSS, licenses wil be

paid on the number of id's created.

We have created custom payslip and many of the application insiade ESS MSS are a mix of custom & standard, belive me it is immaterial wrt licence

i am dame sure we are doing the same way here.

Cheers!!

SJ.