With all characteristics of SAP BPC we talked about in this post, we can consider it as a good solution for planning and consolidation that takes the advantage of using Excel usability to give a lot of flexibility to the users, who are using it from their PCs. But what about the ones who are out of the office? We should consider the new options that the cloud applications give us, like:
- Access to the information from everywhere.
- Graphic Visualizations: Dashboards.
- What-if simulations.
SAP Analytics Cloud can increase the value of BPC, since we can import and export BPC data, the users are able to create their own analyzes and they can simulate changes without modifying in the original master data.
Also we can check here the “Top 10 Reasons to extend SAP Business Planning & Consolidation with SAP Analytics Cloud” where SAP tells us the most important reasons to have both tools together:
Top 10 Reasons to extend SAP Business Planning & Consolidation with SAP Analytics Cloud
Source: SAP