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tools, and especially for Planning Applications like BPC NW, Integrated Planning and BPC on HANA 10.1.
Analysis Office vs. EPM Add-in |
Analysis Office
EPM Addin
EPM is not only used for BPC but it can also be used for
the entire EPM Portfolio
Latest and greatest Analysis Office 2.3 has not been released yet but we know already that AO 2.3 is planned for June
2016. What we know about the 2.3 version is not much more than that Analysis Office can handle local calculations
similar as in EPM, which would be a big improvement. This means you can have local member formulas in rows or
columns and you can apply specific formatting to it. Another feature is the work statuses (facilitates Data information
about planning cycle such as data locking or submission management) which was not supported in the previous
versions. More and more reasons to switch from EPM to Analysis Office for BPC Embedded version.
Wrap-up | We can clearly see SAP is investing in further development and enhancements of AO while EPM only has
bug fixing as a priority. This brings us to conclude that within a few years EPM is nearing the end of its product
lifecycle, since the introduction in 2011.