Item: SAP Integrated Business Planning
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We work with various businesses clients, and suppliers, and we have issues orchestrating all the requirements for handling our operations, reaching all our business requirements and without exceeding our budget. SAP Integrated Business Planning was a success once we decided to run our organization, allowing us to unify all our data sources on-premise and off-premise in one platform that anyone in our organization can use every day. With this solution, we can make an effective following of the changes in our warehouse in conjunction with the Operations and Sales teams.

Pros and Cons

Unify all data sources in one platform over the cloud and on-premise.
Make a success inventory and following changes at real time.
One platform that cross Operations, Sales and Support Teams.

A clearly user experience is required, all stuff is in some cases unorganised.
Difficult tasks for integrated with other systems.
Lack of compatibility with third-party software.

Return on Investment

Better planning of projects allows specifying the most comprehensive times for running projects.
Good ROI but increase budget expectations.
Requires a hard learning curve for operate platform.

Usability

User experience has various issues, from the way to represent data on the Dashboard to complex graphical interfaces for making the right report of something that is easiest to make on other similar platforms. SAP Integrated Business Planning is difficult to integrate into other operating systems and ecosystems. Activity planning, in some cases, is confused, and access is limited if customers or end-users don´t use the platform over the internet using a desktop computer.

Key Differentiators

Cloud Solutions
Scalability

We searched for easy adoption of the technology for all our large organizations because we were operating another on-premise kind of software that presented similar functions and features but, at some point, was difficult to scale and a nightmare for the IT and DevOps teams. For that, we want to use a cloud platform that eliminate maintenance and allows our organization to scale as our business requirements are increasing. We found that SAP Integrated Business Planning is a good choice for all the challenges that our organization faces.

Alternatives Considered

SAP Customer Data Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Jira Service Management

SAP Integrated Business Planning was easiest to implement versus MS Dynamics and Jira because it allows us to scale on-demand, always having in mind our business requirements and without sacrificing compute resources or increasing costs by adopting operating system licenses. This is the case with MS Dynamics 365. Jira, which was previously used for years, was transforming into a monster because it is difficult, heavy, and hard to use for all organizations. SAP Integrated Business Planning was an excellent choice for countering all the issues with other solutions in the market, although it increased our budget.

Key Insights

Do you think SAP Integrated Business Planning delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Integrated Business Planning's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Integrated Business Planning live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP Integrated Business Planning go as expected?

Would you buy SAP Integrated Business Planning again?

Other Software Used

Microsoft Dynamics 365, Jira Software, Oracle CRM On Demand

Likelihood to Recommend

Integrate SAP Integrated Business Planning in the daily operation of the core business is easy if the use of SAP HANA Cloud requires to increase in budget and is not possible for all types or sizes of organisations, but if your IT department requires to connect to on-premise data, connect to other data repositories on cloud or off-premise and customize reports for specific businesses cases, these tasks can increase the projected costs and require to adopt other SAP modules that can not be required at all.

Good features and high expectations for large organizations with a risky price.

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Integrated Business Planning