SAP BPC-  Solution at a Glance

• Designed for Users, Built for Enterprise
  • Interactive Web that allows user access from a single, interactive web interface
  • Microsoft Excel Interface rapidly increases user adoption because it is a familiar interface
  • Ability to support multiple hierarchies
• User Focused
  • Has one central launching point for everyone within the organization to access information or begin a specific process
  • Easy, intuitive, and controlled navigation through the context sensitive Action Pane
• Process Centric
  • Business Process Flows that provides a step by step guidance that greatly enhances the user experience
  • Provides Control over and visibility into the business process (SOX 404)
• Unified
  • One database, One version of the truth
  • Multidimensional, dynamic view of your organization and data through the Current View
  • One point of maintenance updates everything in the application, no technical expertise required
  • Unified application for Actuals, Budget, Forecast and Consolidation in ONE place for the CFO
• Transparency
  • Allows unstructured data such as comments, explanations, etc. to be stored and accessed in the application offering greater transparency
• Legal and Management Consolidation
  • Data manager packages that have a full audit trail, providing transparency into changes to the data as well as the status of all packages that have been run
  • Full journal entry capabilities for control and auditability
  • Real-time availability of the consolidation results provides and efficient process to shorten the closing cycle
  • Same business rules for use in Actuals, Budget or Forecast categories
  • Data Source (Audit ID) provides additional transparency into the sources of the data in the Consolidation process
• Bottom-up and Top-down Planning and Budgeting
  • Allows consistent cost assumptions and ensuring compliance with corporate governances
  • Changes to the units drive through to the P&L, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow allowing real-time what-if modeling
• Forecasting and Predictive Analysis
  • Early warning system alerts users to potential problems before they occur
  • Users can model the impact of taking corrective action without an intensive bottoms-up process
  • Easily maintain the integrity of current data versions while facilitating “what-if” scenarios in a single repository
• Reporting and Analysis
  • Reports authored in Excel can be easily published and distributed via the web, PDF or hard copy
  • BPC delivers packaged and dynamic reporting templates that can help accelerate the deployment
  • Live reports can be created easily using the drag/ drop features in the web browser