There are several reasons why you should consider buying one or more licenses of AboveSoft Utilities. Since 1999 those reasons increased. Born as a Batch Input program generation tool, today AboveSoft Utilities includes three applications:

BIG Code Generator which generates not only Batch Input programs but also BAPI-based Input programs. Includes a powerful BAPI Locator.

AboveSoft Analyzer which analyzes static ABAP/4 code to detect possible performance problems; it also calculates several metrics including developers productivity and quality of the programs written by your ABAP/4 team. Automatically generates Class Diagrams for ABAP Objects' global classes and interfaces, Structure Diagrams and Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERD) of the ABAP/4 code. It also incorporates automatic hardcode detection, automatic broken naming conventions detection and the Explain function which extracts comments from the source code (written by the developers) to build the documentation.

AboveSoft Adaptive Estimator which estimates time & cost of an ABAP/4 project. It can be configured to support other type of projects. It uses an algorithm that improves the estimations based on your existing projects.

Let the numbers speak...

Considering only BIG Code Generator, AboveSoft Utilities pays for itself in less than two Batch Input projects, as the following Return On Investment (ROI) analysis shows:

(analysis based on the price of a single license, that price is less in case of multiple licenses or wide-license)

So the question you should ask yourself is:

Why not?