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

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The 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.

Pros and Cons

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

Return on Investment

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

Ease of Integration

Integration with SAP is maximum, and this of course is intuitive, certainly not totally easy but perfectly doable.

Integrating "non-sap" data is obviously possible, but as with any integration of third-party data, it entails greater use of time and appropriate analyzes on data infrastructures, as well as data processing if the structure is to be revised.

Alternatives Considered

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 products, both for their reliability and for their recognized professionalism, as well as their integration with the sap data warehouse environments

Other Software Used

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, SAP Business Warehouse, IBM Cognos

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are considering the use of SAP BPC you can be sure that you will be able to make appropriate business decisions, have a level of data processing in collaboration with your colleagues, make budgets based on precise predictive analysis, and you can follow different strategic objectives looking for the most appropriate planning.

An excellent system for planning budgets and goals

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)