SAP for Media solutions support a variety of key processes for license sales and incoming royalties, including:

• Rights availability analysis – With SAP for Media solutions, you can display an overview of IP rights, using search criteria such as rights freely available to be sold or sales contracts in which specific rights have already been assigned. The rights availability analysis can serve as a type of rights inventory management.
• License sales contract processing – SAP for Media solutions enable you to sell rights to a licensee, controlling the transfer of rights against fixed or variable fees in license sales contracts, while the monetary implications of the sale (such as the profitability analysis) are transferred to SAP accounting software.
• Rights usage confirmation – SAP for Media supports the sales of rights against variable license fees, based on the licensee's success from exploiting the right. With SAP software, the data on revenues and rights exploitation costs reported by a licensee are entered in the license usage confirmation and automatically assigned to the sales contract for specific periods, then accounted for during billing for incoming royalties in accordance with the arrangements in the contract.
• Incoming royalties billing – With SAP for Media solutions, you can bill license revenues on schedule, on the basis of the licensee's usage data – and recoup any existing advances and minimum guarantees automatically – when you make agreements on the transfer of rights against fixed or variable license fees.
• Contract revision – With SAP for Media solutions, you can make subsequent changes to license sales contract items that have already been released, retroactively or non-retroactively, during the entire life cycle of a license sales contract.
• License sales contract analysis (by title) – You can use SAP solutions to analyze business transactions for licensing with regard to the success achieved in various markets.

License sales and incoming royalties is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP Intellectual Property Management. To find out how SAP Intellectual Property Management can improve your license sales and incoming royalties, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about industry solutions.