The document discusses best practices for reducing SAP ownership costs and provides an overview of Enterprise Advocates. It recommends eight steps companies can take to reduce their SAP total cost of ownership, including assessing existing contracts, considering strategic use of software-as-a-service, aggressively managing systems integration, and rethinking SAP upgrades. It urges companies to act now as economic conditions favor users and most support contracts are due by the end of 2009. Enterprise Advocates offers consulting services to help companies with tasks like contract negotiation and software vendor evaluation.