Hybrid Planning Scenarios with BPC S/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud

Businesses have leveraged Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) for a year now and are now challenged by collaborating with several new products at the same time, consisting of SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) 7.4/7.5, the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) add-in, version 10.0 SP30 (frontend for standard SAP BPC), and SAP Analysis for Microsoft  Office (frontend for embedded SAP BPC) and they require to determine if they need to head to BPC Embedded, Cloud or BPC S/4 HANA Standard.

” A recent survey by the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) exposed 56% of respondents are intending a move from SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) to S/4HANA, yet have not taken any type of concrete steps to get there. One more 32% of respondents have either started to make the move or are currently live on S/4HANA. Still, 12% said they have no plans to move to S/4HANA at all”.

Based on the above study as well as the fact that SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) remaining to be a key part of SAP’S Analytics portfolio, SAP presented the recent innovations, positioning of SAP products and the latest strategic roadmaps by introducing a hybrid planning solution integrating SAP BPC and SAP Analytics Cloud.

Why a Hybrid Solution?

• SAP BPC standard on-premise is a mature, completely functional planning and consolidation application utilized by many customers.
• SAP has completely optimized the link between SAP BPC and SAP Analytics Cloud so that a real-time link is feasible.
• Two-way integration implies that the planning data and master data from SAP BPC can be imported into SAP Analytics Cloud and that the same data can be exported from SAP Analytics Cloud to SAP BPC.
• Automatically create a planning model based on the model in standard SAP BPC.
• Populate the dimensions and dimension participants based on master data in SAP BPC.
• Load transactional data from the standard SAP BPC model.
• Schedule the refresh of the master and transactional data from SAP BPC at any type of frequency.

How the SAP BPC Hybrid Solution Works

SAP Analytics Cloud provides the abilities, facilities, and integration to on-premise and cloud data. Since SAP Analytics Cloud can potentially be utilized as the web front end for SAP BPC 11.0, version for SAP BW/4HANA, all the Standard SAP BPC planning scenarios that need users to perform planning on the web can be the use for the hybrid planning applications. You can do planning directly on the public version and save it to Standard SAP BPC directly. You can also import a model from SAP BPC including all master data and transaction data. The simplicity of the interface means that the two-way integration can be activated by a simple ‘data-refresh’ button. With the data importing planning data into SAP Analytics Cloud, an update of the data is made available in Standard SAP BPC on-premise. You have the alternative to quickly apply SAP BPC logic when data is saved. This option makes certain that the same logic is applied, independent of the tool in which the planning is entered in the Standard SAP BPC on-premise or SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

Advantages

• Core planning on mature and proven BPC solution on-premise.
• Many companies are using SAP BPC for several years. SAP BPC is a proven product: it is extremely robust and it contains a strong core of functionalities with which it differentiates itself from competition software.
• SAP BPC in combination with SAP Analytics Cloud offers a complete real-time planning solution, covering all aspects of planning.
• Provide continuous innovation via integration with SAP Analytics Cloud
• Write-back support permits SAP Analytics Cloud to work as a primary contribution interface with the BPC solution.
• Web-based reporting and visualizations.
• Web-based data input.
• Predictive Analytics functions.
• Simple data modeling (what-if scenarios, allocations).

SAP Analytics Cloud Data Connectivity Enhancements Available

BPC customers can leverage these improvements by means of “hybrid” integration with Analytics Cloud * ensuring a path of continuous innovation. Furthermore, BPC will get incremental enhancements based upon customer responses, and be maintained to ensure compatibility with underlying technology components and legal compliance.

Bottomline

Based on the above study as well as the fact that SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) remaining to be a key part of SAP’S Analytics portfolio, SAP presented the recent innovations, positioning of SAP products and the latest strategic roadmaps by introducing a hybrid planning solution integrating SAP BPC and SAP Analytics Cloud.

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