The Performance Management Exchange

Thursday November 24th 2016

The Hockey Hall of Fame
The SAP BPC Path to S/4 HANA Finance
What does it mean for you?

Justin McNeely,
Managing Partner
Performance Analytics
SAP BPC Platform Options
Corresponding Planning Solution to
Alternative Product Options Prerequisites / Restrictions
be licensed
SAP Business Planning and Any supported release and BPC NW or BPC MS.
Consolidation Standard Model database Available on-premise or via
Managed (Private) Cloud
SAP Business Planning and BPC 10.1, SAP NetWeaver 7.4, BPC NW.
Consolidation Embedded Model and HANA as underlying Available on-premise or via
database Managed (Private) Cloud
SAP Business Planning and S/4HANA Finance (ERP on HANA BPC NW.
Consolidation Optimized for with SAP Accounting) Available on-premise or via
S/4HANA Finance Managed (Private) Cloud

SAP BusinessObjects Cloud No prerequisites SAP BusinessObjects Cloud

(Public Cloud on HCP)
SAP BPC Optimized – Future Direction!
Benefits for Optimized – S/4HANA Finance
1 Real Time Data Access
Analyze consolidated actual and plan results both
“before” and subsequent to close in near real time, not
just at period end.
2 Reduced TCO
Single environment, significantly less data movement to
manage, eliminates need for time consuming
reconciliations.
3 Reduced Time to Close
Time from close of books to availability of fully
consolidated and signed-off statements reduced, with
more time to analyze.
4 Ability to Post and Correct at Source
Fully consistent data across the entire finance function
from a single source of truth and book record.
5 Enhanced Visualization
Top of the line visualization capabilities using SAP Fiori
and SAP BusinessObjects tools.
6 Unified Planning and Consolidation for S/4HANA
Finance
Brings benefits of both requirements into a single place.
7 Ease of Restatement and Simulation
Ability to consolidate at level of granularity require to
support both management & legal re-organizations an
simulations without major rework.
8 Consolidation at Any Level of Granularity
Level at which data is consolidation no longer subject to
performance limitations.
9 Validation and Preparation at Source
Common data available real time not just at period end.
Errors can be corrected at source.
10 Support at Soft Close
Ability to identify issues pre-period end to correct early
and close more efficiently.
Cautionary Points of Standard Version
1 Performance
Performance issues can arise due to data volumes without benefit of HANA.

2 Master Data
No standard integration exists for master data, and must be maintained manually.

3 Integration
No standard data connectors, data must be imported as flat files through a data import
process and maintained.

5 Feature/Functionality
Lacks some features currently in non-standard models (reporting options, scenario buffer).
Assessing the Right BPC Solution
Requirement/
Deployment Preference

On-Premise Preference SaaS Preference

Consolidation / Planning only (low complexity)
Planning Business Intelligence

BusinessObjects
Microsoft Shop SAP Shop
Cloud

No S/4HANA Roadmap S/4HANA Roadmap

S/4HANA Deployed
Data Profile (% SAP) Data Profile (% SAP)
Data Profile (>% SAP)
On BW In BW

BPC for Microsoft

BPC for NW (Std) BPC for Embedded BPC Optimized
(Std)
Potential Integration with BO Cloud
Extending SAP Cloud Applications
TRAVEL AND EXPENSE

BUSINESS HUMAN
RESOURCES
NETWORKS

SAP
BusinessObjects
Cloud

S/4HANA C4C
FINANCE SALES &
MARKETING

360 degree View 9

Assessing the Right BPC Solution

• Initial Implementation Comprehensive report with

Deployment • Support
• Roadmap to S/4HANA Finance
recommendations on:
Options • Platform
• Resource Requirements
• Deployment Options/Support Model
• Demonstrations
Evaluate
Solutions
• Client specific considerations
(Pros / Cons / Benefits) against
requirements
Assessment
Criteria
• Functionality
• Technical Architecture
• Deployment
• Support
Thank you!

Thank You!
Justin McNeely, Managing Partner
Justin McNeely 905-599-7001
Managing Partner Justin.McNeely@PerformanceAnalytics.com

T: 905.599.7001 3601 Highway #7, Suite # 400

E: Justin.McNeely@PerformanceAnalytics.com Markham, ON, L3R 0M3

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