SAP BPC is Dying
Rating: 7 out of 10
May 18, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
10 years of experience
SAP BPC is used to support financial consolidations by Accounting team and for budgeting & forecasting (Capex, Headcount, Opex, Integrated Financial Planning) by FP&A team. It is used across the whole organization.
Cons
- SAP should focus on delivering one single product for planning, consolidation and budgeting needs rather than providing a large list of options to choose from.
- The product is not very user-friendly compared to other cloud competitors. There is a heavy dependency on IT teams.
- SAP BPC should come up a pure cloud option.
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- The total cost of ownership is high
- Even a simple upgrade project can run into months
- Unstable roadmap introducing the new product every year adding the ever-growing list of options to choose from
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Financial Planning and Analysis
- Complex Gross Margin Allocations
- Automating month-end tasks
- Automating access provisioning
- Automated access provisioning
- Encrypting NPI's product price and details
- Automating month-end and QTR-end process
- Financial Consolidations
- Cash Flow Statement
- Fund Flow Statement
Yes
Excel
Select a cloud player like Anaplan
- Vendor implemented
- Implemented in-house
- Professional services company
Column 5 was the main implementation partner. But we had an expert BPC architect from SAP and expert/experienced in-house technical project manager.
Yes
We did Capex, Opex & Headcount in Phase 1.
We did Unit and Revenue Margin, Gross Margin and P&L in phase 2.
We did Unit and Revenue Margin, Gross Margin and P&L in phase 2.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
There was a dedicated change management team.
- Handling business requirements on web interface without using EPM add-in
- Performance of logic
- Automating updates to 70 master data properties during month-end and QTR-end
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
We need the training to learn the product functionalities and best use of features.
Let the design and architecture be handled by BPC experts from SAP (level 7 consultants).
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
Yes - we have added extensive custom code
We had 20+ Badi's in Phase 1 and 40+ Badi's in Phase 2.
There was also customization for SSO on the portal, Automating access provisioning, Encryption for NPI's, Automating month end and qtr-end process.
No
Yes
Yes.
We are in a Mac environment and decided not to use EPM add-in tool. SAP Product team in China helped in adding more features and functionalities for going with a web-only version.
- Creating multiple hierarchies for each dimension
- Scheduling a job
- Archiving job logs
- Creating dashboard
- Reverting back to a point in time
- Pushing logic to HANA
Yes, but I don't use it
- SAP ECC - Transactional System
- Mulesoft using WSDL
- Demantra
It was a complex integration involving multiple teams.
- Already Integrated
- Already Integrated
- Already Integrated
Yes. The integration is supported and is custom.
- File import/export
- Single Signon
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- ETL tools
Discount on Professional Services
Request for bundling the product with professional services of the platinum level 7 consultants who can lead architecture design and support during the development phase.
Yes
Upgrades are time consuming and laborious.
- Bug fixes
- Performance
- New features
- AI & ML features
- Cloud platform
- Seem less integration to Big Data and IoT
No
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