S/4 HANA Central Finance Path to Advance Analytics and Planning

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By Johannes LeRoux

Over the years companies implemented SAP over a long period of time, meaning they have a combination of legacy and SAP environment to deal with, and that made it very difficult to have a common consolidate environment without having to create a data warehouse.

SAP made a strategic decision in 2015 to deliver a real-time consolidation solution based on SAP Business Planning and Consolidation version for NW on HANA with real-time consolidation; customers can get benefit of an integrated real-time consolidation in the context of Central Finance.

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S/4 Why not use Report Painter with ACDOCT table

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By Johannes LeRoux

Working on multiple S/4 project and having struggled with the analytics teams to provide reporting from BI, Imbedded BPC etc to support Cost Center managers, Finance teams and controllers providing real-time data and the flexibility to have supplement standard SAP reporting. I started to exploring reports in Simple Finance, create a Report Painter Report using the totals table ‘ACDOCT’.

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SAP Business Planning and Consolidations

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Don’t Paint Yourself in a Corner!

Photo john_large By Ashwin Gadi & John Louw

S/4HANA and other changes that SAP is now presenting dramatically simplifies the architecture for actual data, making things more flexible. SAP BPC for S/4HANA is positioned to overcome the problems associated with planned data silos, proposed advantages being:
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Agile vs. Waterfall Project Management on BI and Planning Projects

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LourieBy Lourie Louw

I have been on multiple IT projects over the years, both as a Consultant and Project Manager. During this period of time I have experienced the traditional Waterfall approach mostly used on the SAP Transaction System side (ECC), as well as the more agile approaches like Sprint or the Activate Methodology of SAP more used in the Business Intelligence side.
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Application Management Services (AMS)

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By Johannes LeRoux

Information technology complexity, the ever-evolving technologies and solutions, and the demand for stabilized support are increasing on daily basis. Three or four decades ago, complex business processes were understood by only a handful of people who had been with the company a long time. However, just as people are making mistakes, software and hardware make errors, too. Therefore, every company must have an application support organization to ensure that these business applications run successfully.
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