Hi All,
Currently we are in BW 7.3 and still using BW-BPS for planning. We have started to move to BW-IP and ultimately want to see what SAP's road map is for planning tools and want to move towards it. please note that we don't have consolidation . so no use of account based modelling.
So this is our Current road map : BW BPS -> BW-IP( in progress) -> BW- PAK ( after we implement HANA) -> BPS 10.1 (Unified model).
I found lot of great blogs on the net but I've some detail questions on modelling and reporting. Hope someone can help me with these questions:
1) The main reason we rejected moving to BPC previously was interfacing between BPC and BW.
i) Build new model in BPC and move the transactional and master data into BPC .
ii) and again move the plan data to BW to do reporting.
do we still need to do that with BPC 10.1 Unified?.
2) The main reports we have are based on actual and plan data. so, we need to have this readily available all the time for reporting. can we do that reporting using BPC?. meaning can the BPC reports run directly on Multi-provider?
3) when a user plans in BPC 10.1 EPM excel addin . Is the data saved back into BW cubes when he clicks on save button?
any pointers are appreciated.
Regards,
Satish M