SAP Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.
SAP BW versions up to 7.4 have reached end of maintenance. SAP BW 7.5 support is extended to align with SAP Business Suite with NetWeaver components. For existing customers maintenance is scheduled to continue through 2027, with extended support available through 2030.
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SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
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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…
The word "against" would not be the right word to describe this question. These applications coexist and interact, as all of them play a specific role in the SAP landscape. The use of any of these applications should be aligned with the data strategy in an Organization.
I have previously used MicroStrategy Analytics for reporting and I can confidentially say this is a better option. First, we can do all ETL in the system and not have to rely on another tool. Second, it is easy to integrate with the SAP Lumira platform which seems to be much …
Chose SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
The main advantage SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) has over Tableau, or Business Warehouse is that the data can be input and reported via Excel spreadsheets instead of navigating the rather clunky world of SAP. The data in SAP BPC (Business Planning and …
Chose SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
We selected BPC because our Company is SAPified from the backbone. Has native and proven integrations so to start we only have to activate the pre-installed SAP Business Content and configure based in our current metadata (entities, chart of accounts, intercompanies, cost …
Chose SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Actually, for this client, no alternative has been evaluated, because SAP BPC was already in place and already installed previously However, in my opinion, once a large company has an SAP-based structure, it is quite understandable that the same company continues to use SAP …
Chose SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Since we have a large footprint with SAP R/3 ECC and SAP Business Warehouse, our IT team along with Finance leadership chose BPC. It provided the level of integration that we needed. We were also able to use a lot of code that we previously used in our legacy system.
Chose SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
We plan to move to a web-based tool within the next two years. Workday is building a planning model within their finance tool, which we are evaluating, and we are looking at other tools such as Adaptive and Tidemark as alternative platforms. We expect to need some …