Knowledge Center for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions

SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions provide a single, consistent view of information. The EPM solutions help organizations improve strategic planning, streamline budgeting and forecasting, improve the accuracy and consistency of financial and managerial reports, develop intuitive profitability models, and support a corporate culture that values fact-based analysis. They can do all this without disrupting the existing system landscape or requiring wholesale upgrades of IT infrastructure.

SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management 7.5,  version for SAP NetWeaver

Overview: SAP Strategy Management (SSM)

SSM is an application that helps both line-of-business managers and corporate executives drive strategic execution to achieve better results. By clearly linking corporate strategy to prioritized initiatives, weighted measures, performance targets, and people, customers can translate strategies into understandable priorities and tasks that employees at all levels can execute with confidence. SSM addresses the needs of both the organization and individual users. It provides executives with the tools to communicate and manage goals, initiatives, and metrics – from initial definition to completed execution. For example, pathway diagrams (patent pending) effectively depict short-, medium-, and long-term goals for the organization; live operational reviews ensure that departments are in sync with strategic goals; and tools to manage resource priorities and exceptions help sustain focus on the initiatives most likely to have impact. And because the software enables managers to distill strategies down to initiatives and tasks, it provides all employees with actionable plans that they can understand and will adopt. Companies can also link employee incentives in the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution to individual objectives to increase motivation and ensure an even greater chance of success. Employees are empowered to leverage their collective intelligence, work collaboratively toward a common mission, and understand exactly how they bring value to the business.

Benefits

- Enterprise-wide adoption of strategy and alignment of their entire organization to execute swiftly on strategies
- Effective communication enabled by custom visualization techniques (patent pending)
- Greater employee accountability and cross-departmental collaboration
- Improved prioritization of resources and swifter responses to issues requiring correction
- For example, a leading provider of diabetes products achieved ROI of 889% (verified by a third party) with use of this software - primarily based on productivity enhancements from better alignment of plans and activities with corporate strategy.

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.0, version for SAP NetWeaver

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver (BPC 7.0 for SAP NetWeaver) is a robust planning and consolidation application that can meet all of your budgeting, planning, consolidation, and reporting requirements. It supports the full array of top-down and bottom-up financial and operational planning needs as well as consolidation processes necessary to ensure the smoothest, most timely financial close possible, all through a single application. As a result, you gain the confidence to meet increasingly stringent regulations and reporting requirements across the globe.