The Digital Access Adoption Programme (DAAP) is the SAP-defined commercial mechanism that converts the prior named-user-for-indirect-access model into the document-counting Digital Access model. The Admodum read on the three pathways, the price-list adjustment and the buyer-side negotiation surface.
The Digital Access Adoption Programme was introduced by SAP in 2018 alongside the formal launch of the Digital Access commercial model. The programme exists because the prior named-user-for-indirect-access model (under which a third-party system accessing SAP data counted as one indirect named user per user-equivalent) was replaced by the document-counting model (under which the indirect-access measure is the document count by document type).
The programme is the SAP-side commercial container around the transition. A buyer with an existing indirect named-user position enters the programme to transition the position into the Digital Access entitlement. The wider Digital Access explained spoke sets the mechanism context.
The first pathway is the exchange pathway: the existing indirect named users exchange one-for-one (or under a defined ratio) for the document-counting entitlement. The buyer's existing indirect named-user count converts into a Digital Access document-count entitlement, sized against the SAP-published exchange-ratio table.
The second pathway is the new-document pathway: the buyer purchases the Digital Access entitlement at the programme-specific price (typically positioned below the standard Digital Access price-list price). The third pathway is the overage-credit pathway: the existing on-premise licence value applies as a credit against the document-counting entitlement, on a defined recovery-rate basis. The pathway choice reads against the buyer's existing inventory and the document-volume forecast.
The buyer-side artefact at the DAAP decision is the document-volume forecast: the count, by document type, of the documents generated by the indirect-integration estate across a representative measurement window. The nine Digital Access document types are: Sales, Invoice, Purchase, Service and Maintenance, Manufacturing, Quality Management, Time Management, Financial, and Material Movement.
The forecast feeds the entitlement-sizing arithmetic: the programme-specific price applies to a fixed document-count, against which the buyer reads the projected document volume across the term. A forecast that understates the document volume produces a renewal-cycle overage; a forecast that overstates the volume produces shelf entitlement. The SAP system measurement spoke reads the measurement mechanic that produces the document-count baseline.
The DAAP price-list is the programme-specific Digital Access price, typically positioned below the standard Digital Access price-list. The price reads per document, with the principal commercial weight on the Sales, Invoice and Purchase document types and a lighter weight on the remaining types. The programme price applies for the programme window (typically the buyer's renewal or conversion event).
Once the buyer transitions outside the programme window, the standard Digital Access price-list applies. The buyer-side artefact is the term-of-programme commercial fixity: the negotiation locks the per-document price for the agreed term. The renewal cycle reads the fixed price against the SAP-side renewal proposal.
The buyer-side inventory of the indirect-integration estate reads the third-party systems that integrate with the SAP estate and the document types each integration produces. A typical inventory reads: the order-management system, the e-commerce platform, the EDI gateway, the integration platform, the master-data management system, the CRM platform, the manufacturing-execution system, the warehouse-management system.
Each integration reads against the document-type set. An EDI gateway that transmits sales orders into the SAP estate creates Sales documents; an order-management system that creates invoices creates Invoice documents. The inventory is the basis for the document-volume forecast and the entitlement-sizing arithmetic. The indirect-access history spoke reads the pre-2018 model that the programme replaces.
The DAAP negotiation surface has five axes: the pathway choice (exchange, new-document, overage-credit, or a mixed pathway); the document-count baseline (the buyer-evidenced volume forecast); the programme-specific price (the per-document weight, by document type); the programme term and renewal-cycle uplift; and the SAP-user-via-API classification trap (the document created through an integration platform that authenticates as a licensed SAP user).
The wider engagement sits in the SAP practice; the aggregated reading list sits in the SAP knowledge hub; active audit moments route to Audit Defence; active renewal moments route to Renewal Programme; the buyer-side methodology sits in the how we work overview.
The document-counting mechanism that DAAP transitions the buyer into.
The pre-2018 named-user-for-indirect-access model that DAAP replaces.
A senior Admodum SAP advisor will read your indirect-integration inventory, your document-volume forecast and your DAAP pathway choice on a private call. Active audit moments route to Audit Defence; active renewal moments route to Renewal Programme.