Why OCM is Critical to the Success of Your EPM Transformation.
According to analysts and customer feedback, EPM projects, as a subset of Analytics projects, are among the most challenging to achieve positive business value results. The reasons are many, including not having appropriate expectations laid out in a business plan, ill-advised technical designs, poor technical execution, not having internal skills to properly manage the solution, and not including a beneficial process change while implementing the technology.
Topics:
Best Practices,
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
Project Management,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
Inspired by my colleague from Column5 EMEA’s use of a military reference, I’d like to discuss some of the parallels of 2500 year old military tactics to EPM strategic objectives.
Topics:
Best Practices,
Thought Leadership,
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
Access to Advanced Training
Before being allowed to drive a vehicle unaccompanied, we are required to undergo training on both the theory (stopping distances, speed restrictions, road signs, etc.) and practice (actually handling a car) of driving, as well as passing a number of tests.
Topics:
Best Practices,
Process Improvement,
Training,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
1. Landscape Design
I have been working with the BPC product since its inception in 2000. I am always surprised when clients have skipped or are not interested in what we refer to as a System Landscape Design. We take the functional design and/or what you are currently doing in the product to properly size the servers and client machines for the future use of BPC. If you skip this step, I believe there is no way you will get good performance!
Topics:
Best Practices,
Process Improvement,
Thought Leadership,
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
Performance,
Microsoft,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
This month marks Column5’s 10th anniversary, and we are excited to be celebrating so many years of providing top-notch consulting services to our customers. In the end, there are two groups who enable Column5 to have such a rich history of success.
Topics:
OutlookSoft,
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
Training,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
What exactly is SAP EPM? It’s much more than a few random letters to be sure. Let’s first understand what the second set of letters is before we understand all of them as a whole.
Topics:
Thought Leadership,
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
Performance
OutlookSoft Corporation was founded in 1999 and developed products for the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) arena. The company’s first software release was called “Everest”, and was developed on the Microsoft platform. Everest provided new planning, forecasting, reporting and dashboarding solutions for clients, and was the stepping stone for the current SAP product called BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation).
Winston Churchill’s friend once said of him, “Winston is a man of simple tastes, he is always prepared to put up with the best of everything.” The desire for the best is something everyone covets, but this aspiration becomes problematic when “best” cannot readily be defined. So how would you know if you received the best?
Topics:
Best Practices,
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
Training,
Performance
Performance of a system is crucial to every implementation. System monitoring and administration help towards efficiently running a SAP system. Performing some proactive monitoring and configuration can help in avoiding SAP system issues. Let’s talk about a few approaches to troubleshoot performance issues while working on SAP BPC 10.0 for NetWeaver system.
Topics:
Best Practices,
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
NetWeaver,
Performance,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
Connie Folk
David Den Boer
Martin Lloyd
Charles Dagaev
Vishal Goradia
