Item: SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP 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.

Pros and Cons

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

Return on Investment

Fast tool.
Complicated for non-finance users

Ease of Integration

It gives many errors in upload data from non-SAP sources.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management

SAP BPC is much more flexible and complete

Other Software Used

BOARD, Google Analytics, Microsoft Office 2016, Concur Travel and Expense

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited in the case of high skilled users. If I would need to use and share information through it with lower skilled person, it would be more difficult. For instance, it's used only by finance people even it contains a lot of operational information, because the operations managers are not able to understand it

SAP BPC

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)