15.3. Analyzing TCO—the Fourth Pillar
TCO has been a hot area for many years now. Even when many companies were flush with cash from investing in IPOs with neat products and lousy balance sheets, TCO still commanded quite a bit of attention. Lately, helping organizations understand their SAP environment's TCO consumes much of my time, especially those organizations on the verge of needing to sign new outsourcing contracts, considering renewing OS and database licenses, or looking to deploy new hardware platforms to support SAP functional upgrades or technology refreshes. Where stress testing becomes useful is when an organization wishes to validate the respective performance of two or more different SAP Technology Stacks, or key technology components, ...
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