BPC and Financial consolidation

Dear All,
I would like to understand what is difference between BPC and Financial consolidation.
I have a client who wants to implement only consolidation in system and we would like to know which product to implement BPC or Financial consolidation.
Is there any advantage/ disadvantage  if we go ahead with BPC and not Financial consolidation.
Regards,

One major difference which BPC has over their competettor product is
"BPC is a unifed application for finacial planning , forcasting , budgeting & consolidation."
if u thinking to use other functions  apart from consolidation like planning etc ... then BPC is the go forward path for u
Edited by: Aalok Kumar on Jul 2, 2009 8:18 PM

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