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https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/85/Rn/O7KIDE24JCGS.PNGSAPSAP BPC Review2018-04-10T19:28:08.118ZOur entire organization uses it for budgeting. Departments and offices enter annual expenses. Practice groups use it to track employees with annual billable hours and billable rates. Th finance and accounting department uses it for reporting as well as analyzing variances during the fiscal year. The system also is used for creating and updating revenue and expense forecasts during the year.,Allows for tracking of actual vs budgeted expenses. Can have multiple budgets or forecasts for comparison.
Can create reports that can be modified to show either department or office views of the data.
Allows for budgeting of production hours, billed hours and collections by individual timekeeper.,Data is not easily moved between modules. Several steps necessary to accomplish this.
Users often overwrite data entered by others. Need better controls for this.
Better reporting of changes between versions of a budget. In particular, the user who made the changes and what those changes were.,8,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.,7,Column5 was the partner used for the design and implementation of the system. They have been very helpful and responsive. They have also held conferences and training sessions which have helped educate the users of the system.,DFTech,Chrome River EXPENSE, Fixed Assets Tracking, SAP BusinessObjects BI PlatformWilliam O'BrienSAP BPC is Dying2018-05-18T20:23:38.749ZSAP BPC is used to support financial consolidations by Accounting team and for budgeting & forecasting (Capex, Headcount, Opex, Integrated Financial Planning) by FP&A team. It is used across the whole organization.,BPC NW version can use the functionalities of SAP BW for ETL and data warehousing.
Complex business requirements and logic can be built using SAP ABAP.
Can be scaled and support huge volume of data using SAP HANA capabilities.,SAP should focus on delivering one single product for planning, consolidation and budgeting needs rather than providing a large list of options to choose from.
The product is not very user-friendly compared to other cloud competitors. There is a heavy dependency on IT teams.
SAP BPC should come up a pure cloud option.,7,The total cost of ownership is high
Even a simple upgrade project can run into months
Unstable roadmap introducing the new product every year adding the ever-growing list of options to choose from,9,Column 5 team is very competent and handled the requirements and deliverables very well.,Anaplan, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA and SAP ERP,Anaplan, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA,400,10,Complex Gross Margin Allocations
Automating month-end tasks
Automating access provisioning,Automated access provisioning
Encrypting NPI's product price and details
Automating month-end and QTR-end process,Financial Consolidations
Cash Flow Statement
Fund Flow Statement,7,Yes,Product Features
Prior Experience with the Product
Vendor Reputation
Analyst Reports,Select a cloud player like Anaplan,Vendor implemented
Implemented in-house
Professional services company,Yes,Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled,Handling business requirements on web interface without using EPM add-in
Performance of logic
Automating updates to 70 master data properties during month-end and QTR-end,8,Online training
In-person training
Self-taught,9,9,We need the training to learn the product functionalities and best use of features.,8,Let the design and architecture be handled by BPC experts from SAP (level 7 consultants).,No - we have not done any customization to the interface,Yes - we have added extensive custom code,There was also customization for SSO on the portal, Automating access provisioning, Encryption for NPI's, Automating month end and qtr-end process.,No,7,Yes,We are in a Mac environment and decided not to use EPM add-in tool. SAP Product team in China helped in adding more features and functionalities for going with a web-only version.,Creating multiple hierarchies for each dimension
Scheduling a job
Archiving job logs,Creating dashboard
Reverting back to a point in time
Pushing logic to HANA,Yes, but I don't use it,7,9,9,7,SAP ECC - Transactional System
Mulesoft using WSDL
Demantra,Already Integrated
Already Integrated
Already Integrated,File import/export
Single Signon
API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
ETL tools,SAP BPC is fully backed by SAP NW, SAP BW, and SAP HANA. The integration is robust and can be scaled for large implementations. Try to setup EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) and Data Hub.,8,8,Discount on Professional Services,Request for bundling the product with professional services of the platinum level 7 consultants who can lead architecture design and support during the development phase.,Yes,Bug fixes
Performance
New features,AI & ML features
Cloud platform
Seem less integration to Big Data and IoT,No,NoVerified UserBPC MS general reveiw2018-03-27T22:33:17.704ZWe use BPC in our planning and forecasting for FP&A and consolidation for corporate reporting; as far as I know, we also use it for our international distribution.,Running ad-hoc reports
Researching on variance explanations
Creating standardized reports across the team,It'll be helpful to make the ID/description selection change a stand-alone button in the ribbon
Add back the option to select and copy ID's from the dimension dropdown,10,Performance has always been a concern - during busy times the system can get slow for all users, and its report is too large it can get very slow to refresh and update.,9,A consulting company helped us with our system upgrade. They are resourceful and professional.,Verified 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
Windows, Mac
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
70 Ratings
