BPC with BI comparasion

Hi
in future we use BPC instead of IP?
what is main advantages of BPC over IP?
please let me know how to work in system step by step process for BPC?
already clients are implemented BPC?

Hi Suneel,
BPC is the strategic Business Planning & consolidation tool going forward. The other product(IP) will remain active as described in the product roadmap but the bulk of development and enhancement efforts will be focused on BPC.SAP is already providing the roadmap/ integration for BI/IP to BPC, from BPC 8.x onwards. The full details will be avialble soon.Again going for IP/BPC , will solely depends upon customer/client discretion & requirements, and SAP will always take care of the client's Investments spend on SAP.IP & BPC are two separate tools as of now/will remain as same.
Key differences:
1. BPC uses MS Office as it UI (with Excel being the main one) so end users are already familiar with the tool which reduces learning time and training costs.
2. Because BPC uses Excel you can take existing XLS workbooks that you might be currently using and add the BPC connection into them reducing development time.
3. BPC is a delivered application that is configured to meet modeling needs. Products such as BI-IP are tool kits for building applications so they would generally take longer to implement and require much more IT and technical resources.
4. BPC is a business user application that is designed to be managed and maintained by the business users that own the business processes.
5. BPC is function based (just as XLS is) so many of the concepts are already familiar to users. For example, the main query function is EVDRE which is used to both send a receive data. By opening a blank spreadsheet and typing =EVDRE() and pressing enter a wizard is launched that prompts the user for thier basic screen layout. When they close the dialog they have a fully functioning report connected to the database. This takes about 4 mouse clicks and less that 1 min, I think,in BI-IP will take 2-3hrs to do the same.
Hope this helps,
Regards
CSM Reddy

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