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https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/85/Rn/O7KIDE24JCGS.PNGSAPReport consolidation via SAP BPC2019-01-10T18:17:21.714ZSAP BPC is being used in reporting and financial departments at the customer end. We were also able to do financial consolidation with different parties through SAP BPC.,We have implemented SAP BPC 10 with one of our customers to achieve consolidation with their different vendors and to generate the budgetary reports and fetch the same data within different departments. With the help of SAP BPC, our upper management and financial team are confident with the reports, helping them make business decisions.,So far we have not seen any area where we are stuck or needed improvement, except where the data fetched over the intranet from different sourcing had failed to consolidate on the reports. The data should be fetched from any sourcing without any network leak to avoid missing data.,10,As this is the add-on for a business warehouse system (SAP BW) SAP BPC functionality had a positive ROI, allowing us to consolidate.
So far the customer using SAP BPC has not yet faced any negative impact on their ROI as it always gives you accurate and timely reporting with proper consolidation.,10,I have worked with SAP itself to deploy BPC components to achieve the business goals for our US client. It was very easy, friendly and without any hurdles. We were able to configure and setup the functionality and we have generated the finaicial reports to broadcast the data for the internal department of our customer.,SAP BW/4HANA and SAP Business Warehouse,SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, SAP Supply Chain ManagementPradeep BeleAn excellent system for planning budgets and goals2019-01-17T17:40:48.899ZThe use of BPCs within the organization of one of my clients has been fundamental to allowing highly skilled users in the area of business intelligence (professionals or very practical users in the BI sector) go into detail regarding well-defined processes of cost saving, reorganization of the company budget, and the restructuring and optimization of resources.,Perfect integration with SAP
The data, once made available and imported in the SAP environment, allows all users to use them immediately without having to implement any process of ETL or data manipulation
Is optimized for SAP S/4HANA , so the finance department has a complete suite available to manage projects at best in a single software that speaks with the same business terms,Working with extremely complex workbooks can have repercussions in terms of performance
While certainly suitable for personnel already skilled in using and knowing the whole Sap environment, the documentation regarding the potentialities and above all the functionalities of the product could be slightly improved.
Integration with SAP NetWeaver or Microsoft Excel requires good expertise for the implementation,8,Saving costs thanks to a detailed financial analysis
"when if" analysis can predict any evaluation errors
thanks to the integration with BW \ HANA the data is available to you immediately,8,,SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, SAP Business Warehouse, IBM CognosVerified UserSAP BPC2018-09-26T20:15:23.233ZSAP BPC is used as Reporting tool of consolidation. It is used for monthly reporting (short Financial Statements) and quarterly reporting, including Intercompany reconciliation. We use also it to retrieve historical data based on different variants: i.e. IFRS/LOCAL GAAP/US GAAP, Local amount, Consolidated amount... etc.,Legal consolidation
Detailed reporting package
Retrieval of historical data,It's not user friendly
Depending on how it is implemented it is not as flexible as it should be, in case of changes in consolidation rules,8,Fast tool.
Complicated for non-finance users,5,In the past I sused PwC consultant, very good high professionality,Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management,BOARD, Google Analytics, Microsoft Office 2016, Concur Travel and ExpenseVerified UserBenefits of BPC2018-03-23T20:45:52.304ZMy company uses SAP BPC for forecasting and analysis and is now currently undergoing implementation for consolidation. It's currently used by finance departments, and once it's implemented for consolidation will be used by Corporate Reporting and Corporate Accounting. One of the benefits of SAP BPC is that two finance teams (Financial Planning & Analysis and Corporate Reporting and Corporate Accounting) will now be using the same tool for internal and external reporting. This will eliminate the need for reconciling systems, which is currently a manual and many times frustrating task. Like many other companies before SAP BPC, my company currently heavily utilizes Excel for consolidation, which has its flaws including not being able to have multiple users edit the workbook and slow performance. On the Financial Planning & Analysis side, SAP BPC has been instrumental in collaborative work between all business segments and Corporate. It has increased performance and allowed for faster quarter closes.,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.,An easily accessible resource page for quick how-to's and tips, as well as things to avoid (maybe a YouTube page).
In 10.1, one thing that was removed was the ability to go into the dimension and select multiple members/parents and copy-paste those into your workbook. Please bring this back.
When I have a BPC workbook open and a non-BPC workbook open, it slows down performance because whenever I'm toggling between the two workbooks as it's constantly bringing in the EPM context pane into the non-BPC workbook. Is there any way to disable this easily?,10,The upgrade from BPC 7.5 to BPC 10.1 reduced processing dimensions and load times significantly.
Using SAP BPC will allow us to update the Consolidation with the latest data in 10 minutes, rather than hours.
Using SAP BPC will allow a user to work in the model immediately, rather than waiting hours for another user to exit an Excel workbook.,8,My company partnered with Column 5 to help deploy SAP BPC for financial planning many years ago, and they helped us upgrade from BPC 7.5 to BPC 10.1 this past year. Now they are helping us deploy SAP BPC for consolidation. My company has had a long relationship with Column 5, which is a testament to their professionalism and good work.,,Box, Cisco Spark, TValueJeffrey SukSAP BPC reviewed by a heavy user, but that is new to financial systems2018-03-23T19:53:56.089ZWe use it within our department of Financial Planning and Analysis only. It was initially used solely for its consolidation capabilities in order to better report and analyze data, both actuals and budget, with the budget being done in a separate application and loaded in. We have now implemented the planning cubes and use it to develop or annual budget and an annual reforecast with actuals still being loaded in at the end of each month.,Allows for full integration of data to be analyzed in real time. Although we still load actuals on a delayed basis (2 business days after month end), when developing the budget, we not longer have to do a full loading process from a different application into BPC prior to being able to report and analyze the current budget status to prior budget versions or actuals.
It is easy to learn basic report building. The hardest part is learning the available dimensions and the different possible combinations and their results, but that will also vary from company to company depending on the complexity of the industry.,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.,7,Although I am a regular user, I began after the consolidation cube was in place and during the development and implementation of the planning cubes, so I lack the knowledge of a pre-BPC experience at the firm.,8,Column 5 was used for both implementations (consolidation and planning). Based on my understanding of the initial implementation of consolidation, everything went well and the process was smooth. The development of the planning cubes was a little more difficult as there was a different consultant from C5 than the original implantation, and halfway through the development, the consultant left and had to be replaced. This caused some set backs and confusion as every consultant has their own technique and the new consultant couldn't always follow the rationale of what the original had done. The final consultant was great to work with and knowledgeable, but the turnover caused for some issues and could potentially be (just guessing) the reason for some issues we have experienced post-rollout.,Anthony DePasquale
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