Oracle Cloud Infrastructure vs. SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.N/A
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
The SAP BPC software is designed to help users plan and achieve a faster, more accurate close. The SAP BPC software aims to help users spend more time growing their business and less time closing books. The vendor’s value proposition is that their software delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities in a single application. This, in turn, enables them to easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with…N/A
Pricing
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
7.8
114 Ratings
4% below category average
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.2111 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling8.0110 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing7.9103 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates7.3101 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools7.8109 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images7.498 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support7.6109 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls8.3110 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation7.875 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
-
Ratings
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
7.6
37 Ratings
9% below category average
Long-term financial planning00 Ratings8.132 Ratings
Financial budgeting00 Ratings8.033 Ratings
Forecasting00 Ratings7.736 Ratings
Scenario modeling00 Ratings6.632 Ratings
Management reporting00 Ratings7.536 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
-
Ratings
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
7.8
36 Ratings
4% below category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings8.033 Ratings
Journal entries and reports00 Ratings7.828 Ratings
Multi-currency management00 Ratings8.325 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings7.828 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings6.820 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings7.930 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings8.227 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
-
Ratings
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
8.0
36 Ratings
3% below category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings8.132 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings8.036 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings7.635 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
-
Ratings
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
8.4
32 Ratings
4% above category average
Personalized dashboards00 Ratings8.921 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings8.919 Ratings
KPIs00 Ratings8.430 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings8.726 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.723 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings7.018 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
-
Ratings
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
7.0
35 Ratings
17% below category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings7.132 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings7.834 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings6.022 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Small Businesses
Linode
Linode
Score 9.0 out of 10
IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Planning Analytics
Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.1 out of 10
Centage
Centage
Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.1 out of 10
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(114 ratings)
7.8
(37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(3 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(13 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.7
(3 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(17 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.3
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.6
(36 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
8.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
It is a service that enables us to divide incoming network traffic among numerous resources, including virtual computers. By intelligently routing requests, it guarantees fault tolerance and high availability. Application performance is enhanced, and resource utilization is optimized by load balancing. SSL/TLS termination and public and private load balancing are supported. Using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or APIs, load balancers are simple to set up and configure.
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SAP
SAP BPC is well suited for complex planning and consolidations needs where the underlying transactional system is SAP ECC. It suits well if the organization has separate teams with BPC, ABAP, BW, Basis, Hana skillset. SAP BPC is less appropriate for organizations using Agile methodology. It is not suitable for organizations in a hyper-growth cycle as the installation and implementation is time-consuming. It will not work for organizations where the planning and budgeting needs keep changing frequently. The UI of SAP BPC is not very intuitive and very difficult to set up a dynamic dashboard for senior executives and officials of CxO.
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Pros
Oracle
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a generous free tier, moreso than other hyperscalers, with an always-free tier that guarantees certain products are always free
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows you to size VMs with differing combinations of CPU and RAM, which is contrary to other hyperscalers that have specific pre-defined combinations only
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regularly provides free certification exam offers
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SAP
  • SAP BPC is real time data. You can send information into the system and see it reflected in your reports immediately. Other systems may require a manual push into a reporting system.
  • SAP BPC is a shared reporting tool, so multiple users can be working in a model/environment at the same time, real time. This is especially helpful if your workbooks incorporated multiple processes requiring multiple users to get into the same model.
  • SAP BPC is a powerful tool designed to help all facets of the company, from cash flow to capital expenditures to headcount management to financial planning to consolidation.
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Cons
Oracle
  • Navigating the UI takes lots of getting used to. It reminds me of older GCP (just to get used to where everything is).
  • Permission for different things always seemed to be more difficult than it really needed to be. Once you got them set up you were good but updating anything or creating new permissions for just about anything took longer than I thought it should.
  • Based on how the buttons were laid out, it was pretty easy to delete all of your DNS records, and backing them up was not as intuitive as I'd like with the UI, but it was easy to do using a script.
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SAP
  • Being from a law firm, the system needed a lot of custom tailoring in order to fit our full needs (although many companies could say the same thing). Although the ability to highly customize the system to the company's needs is a positive, it frequently results in the system responding in unexplainable and unrepeatable ways which negatively impacts and slows the budget process. Because of the sporadic nature and variety of the issues, we are unable to repeat them on cue and therefore cannot nail down a solution.
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Likelihood to Renew
Oracle
Because it's used for organization many departments and data management, productivity improvement, efficiency increase, less errors and close immediately
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SAP
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Usability
Oracle
The services & products in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure needs more improvement to beat other Cloud service providers. The price is good & Security processes are good. We are requiring to put more effort in supporting this Oracle Cloud Infrastructure than other Cloud service providers. Probably better ways are there but is not super easy to find or not super available
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SAP
Unlike other SAP traditional products, SAP BPC was meant to be simple and familiar to financial users
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Reliability and Availability
Oracle
highly available.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Performance
Oracle
In our project where we are handling Big data, Oracle Cloud helped us a lot by improving its performance and reducing the time taken. Its role-based security helped us to manage the privacy in our project. When there was load, its scalability feature helped us a lot by scaling it to a configured higher scale.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Oracle
Overall it is amazing, there is always room for improvement. We have weekly updates that tend to slow the program used more and more. We had to change some reports within Oracle because the others wouldn’t load. This is tied to our payroll and the delays are causing many time constraint issues and panic. We have to create a new report when one breaks. Otherwise awesome!
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SAP
We need a big support team with various skillset like BPC, ABAP, BW, HANA, FICO etc
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In-Person Training
Oracle
Effective training provided, much data productivity while doing training
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SAP
SAP BPC training content and trainers are very good. The training is structured and provides a very good understanding of the product features and functionalities. I attended 6 separate training sessions of week-long or more. I had very good experience in all the sessions. The training is organized very well.
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Online Training
Oracle
detailed and easy to understand.
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SAP
SAP Training contents are very good, informative and exhaustive.
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Implementation Rating
Oracle
Easier way to implement, vary much supportive way doing the implementation
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SAP
The implementation was carried out in two phases spread over a period of 4 years with 2 upgrades in between. We also had multiple upgrades to HANA.
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
We did an proof of concept between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was the clear winner with us because of support of the product. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support staff was very knowledgeable and helpful getting us up and running with a bit of time investment. This pushed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure out ahead of the other two products.
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SAP
With Hyperion we struggled as it didn’t have integrated planning and consolidation, whereas BPC does have it. BPC is easier for reporting as it is Excel-based. Also BPC has prepackaged business process flows that helped a lot. Hyperion on the other hand has a faster response time for user queries or report generation.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Oracle
was not part of initial purchase team. Anyways, i think unit pricing and billing frequency is good compared to other Cloud service providers, when it comes to Cloud Capital expenditure & Operational expenditure. Would be more interested in exploring more options where customers can get more cost relaxations on trying out new cloud services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for example a new App or a feature
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Oracle
useful product.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Oracle
Services & Infra wise is ok to use & host applications & services. Security wise also good for a Cloud service provider. It is a interesting area to explore & using it for day to day needs can be further improvised in future probably. Modern day Services like AI and Machine learning could be improved
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Oracle
  • It improved the performance of all the applications we migrated by an average of ~90%.
  • OCI storage reduced the cost by an average of 40% on all the migrations we did. This includes backups as well.
  • Object Storage Archive is the most reliable and cheapest storage available for DB backups or application backups. This reduced our storage costs significantly compared to on-premises.
  • The minimum volume size for block volume is 50 GB. This forced us to use more storage on some applications but the impact of the cost increase is < 5%.
  • Lack of reduced redundancy storage options in object storage may have increased costs by > 8% for our use-case.
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SAP
  • Office administrators are able to enter data directly, freeing up accounting staff.
  • Dependent expenses such as taxes and benefits are automatically calculated, saving time for accounting staff.
  • Single source of data for budget information ensures consistency of information when reporting to senior management.
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ScreenShots

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Screenshots

Screenshot of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Global FootprintScreenshot of 2-5x Faster Performance vs On-premises and Other Clouds (Storage Review)Screenshot of One Cloud for the Most Intensive Enterprise and Infra-heavy WorkloadsScreenshot of Gen 1 vs Gen 2 Cloud AdvantageScreenshot of Always Free Services

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Screenshots

Screenshot of SAP BPC Home ScreenScreenshot of SAP BPC Web ClientScreenshot of SAP BPC DashboardScreenshot of SAP BPC Web Report