More than ever before, today’s business leaders understand the value of leveraging data to solve challenges and make more effective decisions. Gathering, organizing, and analyzing data enables teams to enhance their products, manage their supply cha...
“Corporate performance management (CPM),” also know as enterprise performance management (EPM), is a term/concept coined by Gartner almost 20 years ago (2001). As we approach 2020, times have changed and the original principles behind CPM (top-down d...
New Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions
Last week, Gartner released its new Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions. According to Gartner, "’Magic Quadrant for Cloud Strategic Corporate Perfor...
Hot off the heels of the announcement that Microsoft supports SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform as a preferred solution for its customers, comes the latest edition of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and...
Hi Mikhail,This statement pertains to the vision for EPM - we are not communicating anything about a specific product at this time. Note, planning/reporting/consolidation is already available in one solution (BPC) and BPC NW is our strategic solution...
Hi Richard,I head up EPM product marketing at SAP. From an EPM perspective, when we released the 3 SAP EPM OnDemand apps last year, the feedback we received from customers, analysts and partners was that for orgs considering cloud-based EPM solutions...
To clarify a couple points/questions here:Uwe's scenario "B” – “Standard with in-memory" above does not require a planning license. A customer with BW that is licensed for SAP HANA (as well as Analysis for Office if they wish to use), can use BW-IP w...
