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