What’s On Your Mind: Navigating SAP Licensing, Pricing, and Consumption

Robert Holland

Chief Research Officer · SAPinsider

Robert is SAPinsider's Chief Research Officer and leads the research and content development for the ERP, Cloud, Platform, and Cybersecurity topics. Robert has been working in the SAP ecosystem for more than seventeen years, and has written more than thirty research reports since joining SAPinsider. In that time he has engaged with customers and vendors through event sessions and webinars to understand their technology and challenges, and helped tell stories that are important to the SAPinsider community.

Rudy Gesterkamp

Finance Manager · PowerCo

Rudy leads the Process, Systems and Continuous Improvement team within Finance at Powerco. Rudy has held roles in Business Advisory and Audit with EY, and Corporate Finance roles across many industries, including Oil and Gas, Insurance, Entertainment, Manufacturing, and more recently Regulated Electricity and Gas Distribution. Rudy was the Finance Lead on the project to select and implement Powerco’s ERP (SAP S/4HANA). Since Go-Live he has changed focus to working on fine tuning and automation within Powerco’s SAP Environment. He was the Project Lead on the SAC Planning, Blackline GL Reconciliation, Concur Invoice Processing and Soterion GRC selections and implementations. Most recently he has been working on the migration to RISE, a Soterion SAP Licencing Module proof of concept, and an upgrade to the 2025 Release of S/4HANA.

Murali Shanmugham

Global Business AI Strategy Advisor · SAP Australia

Murali is passionate cloud technologies and have over 15 years of experience working with various SAP products and have played different roles in various project implementations across ANZ. He is a a trusted advisor helping customers adopt and use SAP Business Technology Platform to solve some of their key business challenges..