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Thought Leadership

The recipe to successfully execute a project is to have a right mixture of skills within the team and a desire to deliver success shared by all members of the team. An EPM upgrade project is no exception. However, as the technology is changing so fast, there are various challenges, lessons learned, unlearned, and relearned. These contribute to extra layers of complexity when executing EPM projects successfully and this is particularly true when running projects to upgrade from SAP BPC Standard to SAP BPC Embedded.

From November 2015 to November 2016, with 9 months on site, Column5 worked at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), which acts as the central bank for the KSA, to implement a Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting system using SAP BPC 10.1 NW on BW 7.4. This is the story of that implementation and the key factors behind the success of the project.