Difference between EPM Add-in for Excel and BPC 10.0?

Hi Forum,
I'm currently researching an upgrade to version 10.0.  We're currently running BPC 7.0 for MS.  I'm confused at the moment, because I'm not sure if/what the difference is between the EPM Add-In and BPC 10.0.  Can someone answer this?
I'm also not understanding the future roadmap for BPC 10.0 and beyond.  It appears to me that an attempt to merge Business Objects functionality and BPC functionality into one product/suite of products is what is happening, but I could be wrong about that too.  Can someone expand on this as well?
Thanks,
Mike
Edited by: hutchinsm on Oct 19, 2011 4:53 PM

The EPM10 Client (aka add-in) is the unified Excel interface for a subset of EPM products (Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidations, Strategy Management and BPC).  Clients did not like having different report writing paradigms in all of these applications, so the EPM10 Client was developed utilizing a technology called Extended Analytics Analyzer mashed with some of the BPC reporting functionality from BPC7.x to provide one stop shopping for accessing data in EPM applications.  Additionally, the EPM10 Client can be used in many cases to report directly against native BW cubes or any other source that supports an ODBO connection. 
BPC10 is the planning and consolidations application with the code engine to support the application functionality.  If you purchase/upgrade to BPC10, the EPM10 Client is made available as an additional download to complete the package.  In BPC10, the EPM10 Client is used both for reporting as well as for write back to the database for end users.
A new roadmap with BPC10 and beyond is just being finalized.  Look for announcements around this in the next few weeks.

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