Where to go – Part 2

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John_LouwBy John Louw
Principal at Infogility

In the first part of this series I illustrated SAP’s planning application roadmap and how SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and SAP Integrated Planning (BW-IP) have come together in the latest release SAP BPC 10.1. This latest release offers the ability to develop planning solutions utilizing different functionality and approaches:

  • BPC 10.1 “Standard” – follows the classic BPC design approach of prior BPC versions
  • BPC 10.1 “Embedded” – Unifies the solid back-end of BW-IP with the BPC Excel user experience

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SAP Business Planning – Where to go next?

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John_LouwBy John Louw
Principal at Infogility

SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and SAP Integrated Planning (BW-IP) has come together in the latest release – SAP BPC 10.1 Embedded combines the solid back-end of BW-IP with the slick BPC Excel user experience so many of us have become accustomed to.  In addition, the new web interfaces make use of HTML5, overcoming old obstacles on Mobile devices. Read more

Benefits aplenty in the latest SAP HANA based Profitability and Cost Management Solution

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Johannes_Le_RouxBy Johannes Le Roux
Principal at Infogility

In today’s global supply chains, it is common to have several plants involved in the manufacturing of a single product and in turn multiple levels of production crossing plants and different legal entities. This complexity in the manufacturing and management accounting supply chain constantly challenges companies and CFO’s in monitoring their profit, cost and variances. Read more

Trusted Advisor – A Key Ingredient To Success

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Lourie_LouwBy Lourie Louw
Solution Architect at Infogility

Don’t fall in the trap of getting the latest fashionable planning tool and then adjusting your planning process to enable a successful implementation. Very often this leads to total loss of confidence in the system and end user resistance. Never forget to consider how a new application will fit into your overall Corporate Business Intelligence (BI) strategy and how it will interact with your existing systems environment.

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Demystifying SAP BPC on HANA

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Giuseppe_Dal_ColBy Giuseppe Dal Col
Solution Architect at Infogility

There has been a lot of buzz about the benefits of SAP BPC on HANA, but what does it all really mean and just how easy (or hard) is it to migrate your existing BPC implementation to BPC on the HANA platform. SAP HANA is SAP’s  in-memory database that performs at remarkable speed, and unlike other database management systems, processes both transactional and analytical workloads fully in-memory. Read more