Column5 and I have seen a lot of things over the years in the EPM space. I have been working on the technical
I have a dream to, at some point, write a book of everything I have seen over the years. If investors knew what was really going on deep within some of the world’s datacenters, I think some heads would be rolling! I won’t mention ANY NAMEs but some of them are the who’s who of worldwide companies!
I keep running into the same thing over and over and over again, whether it is hosted by a 3rd party or implemented on-site at a client. The challenges start with a common element that is surprisingly easy to fix: No one seems to take care of the servers and technology!
Recently we have been working with customer hosted by a well-known SAP partner and performed reviews for them. On every single one so far, over 10, the systems on the back end haven’t been touched since 2011! That’s right, the database, operating system, applications have not had any service packs or patches installed since 2011. How is that possible I keep asking myself?
To get a “best practice” experience, you have to first make sure the basics are covered. Here are some of those basics I’ve recently seen…
None of these problems have anything to do with EPM software, and yet the perception is often that the software is the culprit because that is the point of interaction for the users. All of the things I have seen have caused, or at least contributed to a negative impact on stability, performance and user adoption. So when I hear someone tell me they’re convinced their EPM software has a problem, it is often revealed that whoever is taking care of the system isn’t really taking care of it properly.
We can help in a few ways:
We will be featuring quite a bit of content to help companies achieve smooth running operations at our EPM Leadership Summit coming up in Las Vegas. Read more about this event here: www.epmsummit.com
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Charles Dagaev began his SAP BPC career with exposure to the software in 2001 with OutlookSoft, the original creator of BPC, and worked at SAP until 2008 when he came over to Column5. He is certified as both an Application and Technical Consultant for the software, having performed over 1000 technical implementations of the BOBJ Analytics software products across every different business vertical worldwide over the past 14+ years. He currently runs the Global Technical Services group at Column5 with a team of SAP Analytics (EPM/EIM/BI/HANA/NW/BW/MS) resources, all of whom have been the Subject Matter Experts (SME) in the numerous areas of the aforementioned software including NetWeaver, HANA, and Microsoft technology stacks.
Charles Dagaev, Global Technical Services, US Team