SAP BPC Best Practices MEETS Prebuilt BPC Implementation Templates
THE PROBLEM |SAP Business Planning and Consolidation comes as a platform requiring you to build your application on your own. As you’re probably painfully aware, this typically takes your forever to finish…if ever, and leads to cost cutting, a slow system, and a one-off solution. In the end, your BPC implementation ends up not supportable beyond the original architect and doesn’t have any SAP BPC best practices baked in during rollout. The Darwin EPM suite was originally developed as a program within Column5, to incorporate the knowledge of 100’s of BPC implementations into prebuilt solution modules naturally fixing these problems while handling 80% of a typical user’s needs. Keep reading to see how this will work for you.
Over the years we saw that SAP Business Planning and Consolidation customers were facing three core implementation and support problems. Read on to see how we fix your three most common problems. Here they are:
THE SOLUTION | To combat the above problems, Column5 pulled together our most experienced consultants and decided to build Darwin EPM, an integrated suite of pre-built software modules within the different versions of BPC. Are you ready to finish building out your installation fast and avoid lousy performance even if you lack expert design and technical skills? See how below and solve the three problems above while you’re at it.
All the pre-built tools in each Darwin module are fully tested and supported across multiple BPC platforms. Documentation has gone through rigorous testing in terms of performance benchmarking and we also incorporate extensive usability testing and ongoing customer feedback to help make BPC easier to navigate and perform common tasks. All business rules are optimized for performance and scalability. We are committed to support the SAP BPC Roadmap and provide enhanced features, so you don’t have to worry about who’s going to support BPC thru inevitable change.
THE DARWIN PROGRAM |The functional perspective that SAP users love the most about Darwin EPM is to have pre-built templates, reports, logic, and process flows that addresses the full lifecycle of their Enterprise Performance Management system. They don’t have to recreate the wheel in any aspect of planning, from strategic to operational to financial. They get a common, centralized solution within SAP BPC.
"Darwin's interface was much more pleasing to our users, it doesn't look like a crude Excel experience, but more of an application."
- CTO, Global Sporting Goods Company
At the core is a calculation engine that makes sure that all rules are fully scalable and well performing, and that there is integration built in across each of the different components of a traditional planning environment. The idea is to deliver a tightly, integrated foundation for customers to support different types of planning, reporting and analytics requirements via a common set of business rules which function across modules. The Darwin calculation engine (DarCE) executes on the database layer, resulting in performance which is up to 95% faster than standard Logic Scripts, and provides a graphical user interface to help make the business rules easier to develop and maintain.
One of the key benefits we’ve seen repeatedly from customers who are taking advantage of Darwin EPM is the acceleration of the BPC implementation. It really does shift how BPC is implemented. Within a few weeks you can have working models with your data populated, and it becomes a more agile approach in which you are able to layer in additional functionality. It gives you a very advanced starting point for a foundation of your implementation and SAP BPC best practices.
MAIN FEATURES |There are several components that come as part of the platform:
"Darwin has exceeded our expectations, and our users are now excited to be engaged in the EPM process. A big change from our prior EPM experiences."
- CFO, Global Financial Services Company
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is tough enough, don’t go it alone and suffer with half the functionality you need, a slow system, and no way to support it. Contact us today at ssussman@column5.com to get your free demo.
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