Incredible power of HANA in SAP BPC

The SAP Business Objects Planning & Consolidation (SAP BPC) is extremely the hot subject in the global business market. This benchmark tool is capable of revolutionizing the business planning and consolidation aspects of a business with incredibly smart and efficient applications. Ranging from the easier configuration of the SAP BPC toolset to user-friendly features, this tool had already captured the attention of the leading entrepreneur, well documented and straightforward planning tool. 

SAP BPC on HANA

Things got really better and interesting when SAP launched its upgraded SAP BPC on HANA in the financial year 2012. This was nothing but a tool for next generation planning technologies to realize the real benefits of big data and extend usage of big data to planning, budgeting, and forecasting, taking it to beyond finance, and allow for an enterprise-wide business planning.

In technical terms, SAP BPC 10.0 moved onto HANA analytic appliance with the underlying BW 7.3 system moving onto HANA as well. Thereby SAP officially certified that SAP BPC 10.0 does indeed work on top of BW 7.3 running on HANA. There are many interesting advantages on using SAP BPC on HANA. One such advantage is that there is no need for re-implementation of BPC. The SAP BPC 10.0 application and front-end layers stay the same – your BPC environments, script logic, ABAP code, Business Process Flows, reports etc stay intact without you having to migrate them.

In simple terms, BPC on HANA is more like a traditional BPC which runs on simple, in-memory optimized cubes. Though it sounds simple, the performance yielded by this revolutionary SAP BPC version is phenomenal.  Loading and reporting on business planning and consolidation had become easier than ever.

At the end of 2014, SAP was working with a large global manufacturer with a far-reaching SAP HANA license investment to implement the in-memory database management system. In addition to making this strategic business investment, the company wanted to make their BPC solution a complementary part of that business process and determine the right in-memory scenario. There were a number of daily, calculation-intensive/time-consuming efforts involving the loading and submission of data which then needed to be reported, retrieved and queried, among others.

SAP BPC Consultants

Being said that the SAP BPC tool backboned by HANA is capable of any complex business planning and consolidation tasks, significant demand for professionals with expertise on this tool has grown drastically. Many companies facing severe challenges to find good, smart and experienced consultants. But the reach challenge is that a good consultant will have knowledge around the edges of the tool that makes the difference between a solution that works and a solution that flies. That’s the professionally trained SAP BPC Consultants dominate the cloud market.