There’s Something New in Performance Management Today
By Chris Grundy, SAP EPM Solution MarketingIt’s new. It’s different. And it has the potential to release the power of performance management insight to users across your organization. This is an...
View ArticlePlanets around the Sun in the Cloud for the Un-served
Inspired by an internal email from Adam Thier, who heads EPM product management and architecture with this golden line “there are still large numbers of business users un-served by information...
View ArticleData Manager Pacakge access to Super Users
Dear Friends, I want to set a role in security gives a person to access the Data Manager Package. I only want super users to have access of DM package, so want to remove it for every one else. Kindly...
View ArticleHow to manage scope changes with SAP Financial Consolidation 10.0, Starter...
This new series of seven blogs is dedicated to help deal with the most frequent consolidation M&A requirements when using “SAP® Financial Consolidation 10.0, Starter Kit for IFRS". A first series...
View ArticleHow to manage scope changes with SAP Financial Consolidation 10.0, Starter...
This new series of seven blogs is dedicated to help deal with the most frequent consolidation M&A requirements when using “SAP® Financial Consolidation 10.0, Starter Kit for IFRS". A first series...
View ArticleHow SAP® Financial Consolidation meets IFRS requirements - Introduction
This series of blogs describes how SAP Financial Consolidation, Starter Kit for IFRS has been configured to meet International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The blogs will help customers...
View ArticleNew Opportunity to Influence SAP Planned Innovations for EPM, BI and Mobile
SAP would like to invite you to engage with us throughout the definition and development of future functionality within the financial close area of our enterprise performance management (EPM)...
View ArticleSAP Support Portal Uses the Updated Naming for Analytics Solutions
In May, SAP announced new branding changes that simplify the way we talk about our analytics solutions. (See...
View ArticleSAP EPM OnDemand Brings New Mobility to Mobile Apps
Over the next month I will be working on a three-part eBook series for Tech Target’s searchSAP.com, I review the new mobile Enterprise Performance Management suite, known as EPM OnDemand (EPMOD) and...
View ArticleSeeing is Believing – SAP Business Planning and Consolidation in Action
The internet can be a very overwhelming place...especially when searching for very specific information. Some may say its like trying to find a needle in a needle stack (I bet you didn't see that...
View ArticleYes It Is True. You May Have Some Work To Do
Executive Summary: Creative and appropriate use of the EPM Client can overcome complex formatting issues that some have difficulty with in converting existing schedules to forms. Here is a generic...
View ArticleThe long-term benefits of SAP’s acquisition of Ariba: A Q&A with SAP mentor...
In the weeks since SAP wrapped up its acquisition of Ariba, there has been a lot of discussion about how the Ariba products and technologies will be delivered to the SAP installed base. There was some...
View ArticleSustainability Performance Management - Next Big thing in EPM
Since last few years, the industry focus is on optimization initiatives. It was outcome of a thought process post slow down few years back. So the questions that head honchos really asking was - I want...
View ArticleBPC on HANA is Mission critical, no more a high level nice to have
Analytics technologies has evolved today to a great extent to help business and best run companies transform the way they run business reporting and planning - that is business sensitive, dynamic and...
View ArticleSustainability Reporting & Analytics Solution
While concluding my recent post of Sustainability Performance Management as a next big thing, I realized that, most of the reader who want to do something, or understand the domain better - the real...
View ArticleUsing Javascript to enhance Script Logic
Using Javascript to enhance Script Logic Applies to SAP Business Planning & Consolidation 7.5 NW and SAP Business Planning & Consolidation 10 NW Sometimes, when we are developing some script...
View ArticleWho's running better with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version...
Since March 2012, with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10 SP6, customers have the option to replace their traditional RDBMS systems with SAP HANA for use with SAP NetWeaver. This change...
View ArticleCentrally Deploying EPM Add-in Connections
Business Case All the EPM Add-in functions use the connection name as parameter. During the deployment of BPC solution on a wide user base, these connection names should be identical to avoid any...
View ArticleIndustry Best Practices drive better forecast reliability with SAP planning...
In this blog I plan to share some of my experience working with few Oil & Gas companies and identify what have been their key needs when it comes to planning solutions. I will also highlight some...
View ArticleEPM + BI + Mobile = Instant Value (live from DKOM Paris 2013)
I wanted to share the above photo as it shows something special. It happened on March 26, 2013 2:43pm at SAP Development Kick-Off Meeting in Paris,France. Along with seventy other persons that gathered...
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