The legal side of integration

Very interesting news in the press the last couple of days. The Salesforce system of the beverages company Diageo allows a large group of users to access data in back-end systems, including SAP ERP. Because of the named user license model of SAP, British court has ruled that a fee must be paid for each user of the Salesforce system. A little known aspect of integration: legal! Actually, the integration between Salesforce and the on-premise SAP and Oracle systems was handled by SAP PI.