SAP IQ Pricing
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Mohamed-Abdalla
IT Manager at PCWORLD Egypt
The solution’s pricing is high, but coverage is good with high implementation with customer requirements.
View full review »Negotiation is very important.
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Richard Pitsnogle
Lead Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Know what you are getting for your money.
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SAP IQ
March 2024
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Pricing changes. In South Africa, it depends on how the pricing is obtained. The pricing is good and it is actually better now because they are realizing that they should price it correctly according to the market. The pricing improved especially with the partitioning because they used to charge too much for that feature. They have now lowered that because obviously data warehouses get huge so when you use partitioning that it would get very expensive. It benefits people who have big databases.
As far as actual cost, there's a standard licensing fee and then there are the add-ons. The most useful and most expensive add-on was the partitioning. That's the only real additional cost that I've found useful. They also have got a high-security encryption module, but that's something that's very, very niche. So beyond the standard licensing you also have to factor in the cost of modular enhancements. But there aren't a lot of additional things you need to pay for in order to enhance what the base system does.
The only other add on that you would need to pay for is if you scale sideways. That is the multiplex which requires additional hardware.
They should simplify the classification of licenses, especially the core/store number.
View full review »This product is rightly priced, or even under priced, for what it can do and for sure costs much less than other RDBMS products and licensing. They have more than one model which could fit your organization size and they are more than happy to work with you on this.
View full review »Negotiate based on the features required.
View full review »Understand your requirements well in terms of performance, backup, and space requirements before picking the number of licenses. If IQ is being used in a virtual environment then probably a good understanding of licensing options in a virtual environment is needed. Recently SAP has introduced some new license options, but new users should review those options with the sales team.
View full review »Evaluate all options; check to see if you need expensive add-ons.
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Chetan Niloor
MSSQL DBA,SAP IQ DBA/ASE at NuWare Systems LLP
Simplify the classification of licenses, especially the core/store number.
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SAP IQ
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SAP IQ. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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