Best SAP FUE Optimization Tools (2026): Top 9 Compared

Tarento sells FUE Optimizer Pro as a platform the customer buys and runs rather than rents. The product page states a one-time licence fee with no per-user fees, deployed on SAP BTP, a private cloud or on premises.

The page sets out a six-stage calculation. SAP authorization data is imported by CSV or direct integration and isolated per system. Each authorization object is matched against the FUE rule set. A role takes the most restrictive licence found in any of its authorization rows, a user takes the most restrictive licence across assigned roles, and expired or locked users drop to Not Classified. Tarento publishes the resulting formula, which weights developer, advanced, core and self-service users at 2.0, 1.0, 0.2 and 0.033 FUE.

On top of that engine sit dashboards with historical snapshots, flags for users dormant for 90 or 180 days, unused-role detection, and an AI step that ranks roles for possible downgrades with confidence scores and projected FUE savings, reviewed by a person before any change. Reports export to Excel, CSV and PDF. Tarento states that role misclassification and dormant users typically cause 20 to 60 per cent FUE overspend; that is the vendor's own figure.

Skybuffer is an SAP partner that builds add-ons on SAP BTP. Its Accelerator for SAM4U Adoption delivers a configured SAM4U environment in the cloud, and the product page positions it as a way for internal authorization teams to manage license consumption without external consultants.

The documented functions centre on simulation. Users can run unlimited what-if scenarios to see how changes to roles and authorizations alter license consumption, and can model a move to FUE licensing for S/4HANA and RISE with SAP, comparing scenarios Skybuffer calls Deep Simulation and Light Simulation. The tool compares manually assigned license types with actual user activity and system authorizations, pointing out users who are over-licensed, such as a Professional User who only needs a Core licence, and users who are under-licensed and an audit risk. After a role change it recalculates consumption immediately. Ownership of the SAM4U instance is transferred by registering it with the customer's SAP license key in SAP for Me.

A September 2025 SAP Community post by a Skybuffer author describes a dashboard with a License Optimization Potential figure and an FUE gap between authorizations and active usage. Skybuffer also published an earlier BTP tool, SAP Landscape Potential Use, in 2022. Pricing is not published.

HCLTech, the India-headquartered IT services company and SAP partner, describes Mosaic as its proprietary license analyzer and predictability tool for RISE with SAP. HCLTech's RISE with SAP page states that Mosaic analyses current SAP usage and automatically translates perpetual licences into RISE with SAP Full Usage Equivalent, so customers can project their total cost of ownership, and that customers can use it after go-live to monitor consumption and forecast demand.

The product brochure page describes Mosaic as a cloud-based, single platform for information on SAP license usage, conversion and re-classification, aimed at optimizing shelfware, and says it evaluates current licences and system consumption across applications and infrastructure. An SAP partner listing names it HCL Mosaic: license assessment for RISE with SAP.

HCLTech's case studies add detail. For an insurance client, the company reports findings on direct access, indirect access, infrastructure sizing and add-on applicability, AI and machine-learning forecasts of user and database growth over five years, a 24 per cent reduction in licence shelfware and a 15 per cent reduction in licence cost. Those are HCLTech's reported outcomes for one client. No price is published.

Organización de Conocimiento SA de CV, trading as SofOS, is a Mexico-based SAP consulting firm. A published SAP case study summary describes it as having about 300 employees, being an SAP partner since 1997 and focusing on digital transformation for Latin American food and consumer goods companies. The product appears in SAP's partner catalogue as R>Architect.

According to that case study, SofOS built R>Architect on SAP BTP to simplify and justify the move from traditional licensing to the FUE cloud model. It is described as a guided, knowledge-base driven tool that automates FUE estimation, analyses roles and authorization objects, and supports clean-core recommendations for the S/4HANA landscape. The same summary reports that early deployments cut average business-case build time by about 60 per cent in one quarter and processed about 2,000 roles a month. Those are reported outcomes, not independently measured figures.

R>Architect suits buyers who want FUE sizing folded into a broader S/4HANA conversion plan with a regional partner. Buyers wanting continuous FUE monitoring after the RISE contract starts should ask how the tool is used once the business case is approved. Pricing is not published.

Xiting, an SAP authorization specialist, sells the Xiting Authorizations Management Suite (XAMS) as an add-on for SAP role design, testing and access management. License analysis is now a stated focus of the product.

Xiting's Service Pack 21 announcement, dated 16 June 2026, says FUE data is now evaluated automatically in the Role Designer and Role Profiler. The Role Designer shows user licences including FUE utilization, calculates licence quotas for roles and menu objects, and displays which objects result in higher-tier licences. A new License Trace evaluates in parallel with simulation whether each user has been assigned the correct licence. In the Role Builder, the Coverage Analyzer shows licence type with colour-coded tiers, and CRAF integration with PFCG helps avoid unintended licence upgrades. Service Pack 20 had added the first analysis functions.

Xiting's license analysis page describes a consulting package that installs XAMS with a temporary usage licence, analyses licences from existing authorization data and from ST03N usage data, and forecasts the S/4HANA licences required. SAP's licence rule set is integrated so licence types are checked during role modelling. Pricing is not published.

HONICO, an SAP licensing specialist, sells Dynamic License Control (DLC) through Dynamic License Control GmbH in Hamburg. HONICO states that it built the first generation of DLC in 2006, which Flexera acquired in 2009, and that a second generation went to Snow Software in 2014; the current product is a third generation.

In July 2024 HONICO announced that SAP's Integration and Certification Center had certified DLC with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud as an ABAP add-on. HONICO says DLC analyses user behaviour and authorization roles, recommends licence type classification, measures engines, analyses indirect and digital access, and applies automated rules.

A December 2024 HONICO paper on DLC after a RISE move lists FUE as one reason to keep a licence tool, stating that SAP's STAR review does not yet provide the correct licence type for every user. It also lists classification of customer Z and Y authorization objects, role utilization analysis, proactive warnings before a compliance issue, and contract management. In an interview with E3 Magazine, HONICO said DLC puts a price tag on existing roles, shows which authorization objects make a role expensive, simulates role changes before they are implemented, and displays calculated FUE values. Pricing is not published.

USU, a German software asset management vendor, sells SAM for SAP Software as its SAP licence management product. USU's product page says the tool reviews SAP roles, permissions and STAR classifications, then enriches them with real usage data to produce a licence baseline before the customer negotiates with SAP. It assigns the best-fitting FUE, retires unused licences and reflects results in SAP LAW reports through a configurable process manager.

USU's RISE with SAP e-book page lists four uses: calculating and reducing the FUE baseline, reconciling authorization-based licensing with actual usage, simulating contract and migration scenarios, and keeping audit readiness across Fiori, Ariba and other products. The e-book states that USU has integrated the STAR rule set so the tool can produce a STAR-like first view, then matches it against usage to improve the result.

Beyond users, the product maps LAW2 engine values to contracts and metrics. USU states that authorization-based licensing can raise licence needs by 50 to 150 per cent and that incorrect engine measurements appear in more than 40 per cent of cases; both are vendor figures. USU also sells licensing advisory and negotiation support. No price is published.

VOQUZ Labs, based near Munich, sells samQ for SAP licence management, alongside setQ for users and authorizations and remQ for control monitoring. Its FUE material centres on two published resources.

A VOQUZ whitepaper on SAP's S/4HANA Trusted Authorization Review (STAR) describes STAR as a predefined model that estimates future user licence needs from existing authorizations, and argues that it often misses optimization potential and can over-estimate requirements. VOQUZ presents samQ License Optimizer for SAP Software as the way to combine STAR with usage-based analysis.

An on-demand VOQUZ webinar addresses customers entering their first SAP Cloud ERP Private renewals. It explains how to check whether Advanced, Functional and Self-Service allocations match actual business need, where wrong mappings create subscription growth, and how quarterly reassessment tracks entitlement distribution over time and links it to financial exposure before renewal. A 2023 VOQUZ advisory brochure, published through SAPinsider, also describes a 30-day samQ add-on that simulates S/4HANA or RISE user licences on an existing ECC system and an evaluation of SAP's FUE calculation. No price is published.

SAP offers its own path to an FUE baseline through the S/4HANA Trusted Authorization Review, known as STAR. SAP's support page describes it as a service in which SAP experts, remotely or on site, help customers simulate and optimize existing and future user licence requirements. SAP uses its Object Analyzer, which links a standard rule set matching existing authorizations to the new S/4HANA licence types.

The process runs in four steps. The customer submits a request form, implements a simulation report through an SAP Note, runs the report and shares results with SAP, and SAP then returns an evaluation report documenting parameters and scenarios. A January 2024 practitioner blog identifies the report as SLIM_USER_CLF_HELP_F01 from SAP Note 3113382 for Basis releases 702 to 758, with SAP Note 3308470 for older releases, and describes the STAR service as free.

The same SAP page lists MOON services from SAP Security Consulting. MOON License Analysis combines a transactional licence simulation within days and a trace-based authorization analysis at object level after four to six weeks of tracing. MOON License QuickFix adapts existing roles for quick gains, and MOON License Service redesigns the authorization concept. Third-party vendors on this page position their tools as a check on STAR output before it is submitted.