Over the past 6 months, we’ve seen a lot of our clients experience stubborn errors and issues that have surfaced in BPC for Microsoft environments. It’s important to understand that these issues are mostly related to user errors or updates not being performed correctly.
The Technical Team at Column5 has performed in-depth troubleshooting and continues to provide various technical solutions for our customers. Today, we have compiled a list of the top 10 issues including root cause and a simple solution. Continue reading to discover how you can tackle these issues and improve your performance!
Topics:
Performance,
Microsoft,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation),
Technical,
User Experience
BPC owners often seek to implement automation to make manual administration the exception wherever possible, in order to lower TCO and increase uptime. For dimension automation, new members added to source systems (accounts, product names, etc.) would be automatically inserted into the BPC master data tables. Automating this task could save quite a bit of manual effort over time, and increase system uptime. If your BPC deployment requires manual dimension maintenance, this solution may be of great interest to you.
Topics:
Best Practices,
Excel,
Thought Leadership,
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
Microsoft,
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)
“What is your BPC upgrade strategy?” or “what is the best plan to migrate BPC?” are the most common questions I am asked by clients looking to upgrade to the latest version of SAP BPC. Even though clients' landscapes come in all shapes and sizes, the overall strategy for a BPC upgrade is not very different from one client to the next.
Topics:
Best Practices,
Thought Leadership,
NetWeaver,
Performance,
Microsoft,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
If you're like a lot of people out there, you probably had to read the title of this blog twice. Over the last several years there has been a plethora of speculation, confusion, frustration and exasperation about the future of BPC for the Microsoft Platform. From the very first announcement that SAP would port BPC to the NetWeaver platform, people have forecasted the end of the Microsoft version. The lack of roadmap beyond extensions of platform support for the latest versions and some new content (i.e. IFRS Starter Kit) does make one wonder about the future of BPC for the Microsoft Platform. Here's the good news: SAP recently released the latest roadmap for the EPM portfolio and there are several meaningful planned enhancements to BPC for the Microsoft Platform; from here on out referred to as BPCMS.
Topics:
Center of Excellence,
Roadmap,
Microsoft,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
This is a 100% true story. The names have been altered to protect the innocent (and the guilty)!
Everyone likes a great story. What makes a story great is a plot, a villain, and a hero. What makes this particular story more interesting is that it is a business story. It also one that clients keep asking me to repeat to their teams, peers and even their executive staff.
Topics:
Best Practices,
Thought Leadership,
Analytics,
EPM ROI,
Microsoft,
Implementation
This week has been somewhat of a client reunion week in that three of our clients from the “OutlookSoft” days are looking at upgrading to BPC v10. Enough to where I had three meetings that felt like one topic three times over. That makes me believe there are other SAP BPC clients out there who could benefit from this information. This article is for any existing SAP BPC client who is not currently on v10.
Topics:
HANA,
Thought Leadership,
OutlookSoft,
NetWeaver,
Roadmap,
Microsoft,
Implementation,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
In the first part of this blog, I discussed how to obtain some helpful and resourceful information around the SAP EPM space on the web. My main emphasis focused around several SAP websites including the SAP Service Market Place, SAP’s Help Center and the EPM Forum. Though I know most sequels don’t do as well as the original, I would like to now share with you some very supportive sites that revolve around the database layer of BPC.
Topics:
Training,
Microsoft
The question of how to perform change management for BPC NetWeaver comes up often from customers. With three ways to move items between landscapes this leaves customers with the question of what is the best method? We’ll go over the pros and cons of each method.
Topics:
Process Improvement,
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
NetWeaver,
Performance,
Microsoft,
BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation)
Charles Dagaev
