QuantityWare offers a “usage” package of the Bulk Calculations Solution (BCS) to its customers. The contents of this package are summarized in this FAQ.

All offers of usage are based on two agreements:

1. QuantityWare Annual Usage Agreement
2. QuantityWare Mutual (bi-directional) Non-Disclosure Agreement

These agreements have been crafted and refined since 2006 and are based on German law (law of Codex).

• Our NDA is a “standard” Bi-Directional agreement.
• The Annual Usage Agreement has been adopted to reflect the usage model and that we offer e.g.

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Since its initial release in 2006, the QuantityWare Solution BCS and its component products BCP and BCG have grown and diversified with the addition of many new and revised quantity conversion standards. This includes existing industry products and those gaining increasing visibility e.g., industrial gases, hydrogen.

Additionally, many of the valuable internal management and GRC functions available within the Petroleum and Gas Measurement Cockpits have been revised and extended, heightening quality and giving customers access to increased functionality.

After 10 years of price stability, QuantityWare is announcing a 10% price rise of all products.

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A valid Usage Agreement provides the following benefits:

• Usage of our software to the extent defined by the Usage Questionnaire answers
• Access to the QuantityWare service portal, providing:
  • Ticketing system for issue reporting and resolution
  • Self-service usage key generation
    (for every requested SAP System within the scale of the agreement)
  • Portal user management
  • Installation files
  • Maintenance files
  • Agreement data
• Maintenance request support (see here for details and priorities).
• Upgrade rights (i.e. from BCS 30A (NetWeaver) to BCS 30B (S/4)).

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Yes.
Follow the appropriate path:

• Prospective customers can first apply for non-obligatory, fully-functional test usage keys, for one SAP system, without charge, which can be requested online via our Service Portal.
  All BCS pricing information for productive usage is openly available in the pricing section of our website.

• Existing customers should follow the Portal Systems Manager documentation – Do not submit a Test Usage Key Request form (TUKR).

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From the earliest days, we have made a Value Proposition document available to our customers – it can be found in the Knowledge Base and lists all benefits from the offloading of development cost and maintenance to GRC aspects.

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Maximum Support – Minimum Hurdle

Sometimes prospective customers ask us why is there such a large “step” in our pricing matrix between the “National / Simple” and “National / Standard” positions. As our prices are openly available on our website,  we have decided to publish this question and its answer in a public text as well.

SAP Oil, Gas, and Energy customers have always had to use a third party solution for bulk goods quantity conversion calculations.

We have always aimed to serve the entire industry with our solution,

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From a BCS measurement standard point of view (considering the basic thermodynamical properties of temperature, density, pressure / vapor pressure) , LPG and NGL (high vapor pressure) are covered by the same group of supported BCS measurement standards*. Thus, either a BCG or a BCP license is required for quantity conversions of LPG and NGL, but not both.

From a business point of view, considering the financial values, there are considerable differences:

• In a nutshell, LPG are – in many countries –  defined  by using a chemical composition analysis.

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