SAP Simplifies Business Planning and Consolidation Based on SAP® BW/4HANA

·  Single integrated solution for
planning and consolidation with embedded visualizations

·  New release provides higher performance,
improved user experience, extended connectivity to source systems and SAP®
Analytics Cloud

SINGAPORE — June 15, 2017 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the general
availability of SAP®
Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) 11.0, version for SAP BW/4HANA. The application improves mission-critical
business processes including
planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation and reporting, all
in one unified solution. Thus, it supports more strategic decision making
through accelerated insight to action and serves as a basis for finance
transformation and innovation. This announcement was made at SAPinsider Financials being held June 14–17 in Amsterdam.

“In our quest to make it easier for customers to plan, budget,
forecast, consolidate and share a consistent view of financial information and
key metrics throughout the organization, SAP BPC now leverages the streamlined
simplicity achieved in SAP S/4HANA® and SAP BW/4HANA,” said Mala Anand, president
of Analytics at SAP. “This
simplified architecture eliminates data replication and reduces hardware and
administration costs while allowing customers to perform real-time analysis and
planning across entire ERP landscapes. Finance departments no longer require
separate systems for transactions and analytics.”

Ingmar Christiaens, Partner Advisory Services, EY, said: “The SAP S/4HANA suite has made tremendous progress
supporting the CFO’s agenda to build an agile finance function. SAP has now taken another big step forward in the planning
and consolidation space with SAP BPC, version for SAP BW/4HANA. The modern user
interface enables users to easily access enhanced analytic features and
experience accelerated performance from the increased use of core SAP HANA
functions.”

Cliff Eng, SAP finance transformation partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: “SAP BPC,
version for SAP BW/4HANA, provides a flexible option for SAP customers seeking
to enhance their finance capabilities on the SAP HANA technology. This solution
is expected to unlock several performance improvement opportunities. SAP’s
newest offering can provide finance organizations with the ability to rapidly
develop more comprehensive planning models, which may lead to better insight
and improved decision making.”

The latest release of SAP BPC provides:

·  Simplified financial models in SAP BW/4HANA

·  Streamlined data-loading processes with the
ability to load sources from across the enterprise and beyond

·  One product for planning and consolidation

·  Faster planning and close cycles with
calculations pushed down to SAP HANA®

·  More detailed planning with no restrictions on
granularity or calculations

·  Improved scalability and performance via SAP
BW/4HANA

·  Increased openess with the ability to
incorporate data from cloud applications and other third-party data sources

·  Improved decision making and a more complete
view of the business

·  Extended reporting and analysis, and hybrid
planning scenarios thanks to integration with the SAP Analytics Cloud solution

The version of SAP BPC for SAP BW/4HANA additionally allows customers to extend planning beyond
finance to other line-of-business planning scenarios. Customers using previous
versions of SAP BPC, the integrated planning functionality in the SAP Business
Warehouse (SAP BW) application, and the planning applications kit (an SAP
BW–based planning solution) can maintain their current investment in SAP BW and
gain further technical and functional benefits upon migration to SAP BW/4HANA.

SAP Analytics Cloud allows users to plan, analyze and predict business
outcomes all in one place. Users can seamlessly move their BPC data and models
into the cloud for further planning, self-service visualization and predictive
analytics. Finance departments can perform more in-depth analysis by using
predictive functions on current data sets combined with potential business
challenges and influences before running a budget or forecast. Additionally,
the business process flows in SAP BPC provide full integration to extend a
hybrid planning process between SAP BPC and SAP Analytics Cloud. This allows
for full movement of data and dimensions in a bidirectional manner for
broadening business planning scenarios on premise and in the cloud.

For additional information, please read the SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation 11.0, version for SAP BW/4HANA blog. For more information, visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.