Author: Tejasree Parvathaneni
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 11.0, Version for SAP BW/4HANA
The recently announced SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) 11.0 version for SAP BW/4HANA will improve and simplify planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, and reporting. The SAP BPC version 11.0 allows organizations to make strategic decisions while acting as a financial transformation platform. According to SAP, BPC 10.1 support will run until December 31, 2020,
Is your Cognos Analytics BI platform delivering real business value?
Business-led operations are demanding agile analytics solutions. Are you applying agile principles and practices in all aspects of business operations? A recent study by Gartner predicts the global business intelligence and analytics market will reach $18.3 Billion in value this year, an increase of 7.3 percent over last year, and the market will grow to
8 Reasons Why It’s Time to Move on From Microsoft Excel
“People do not plan to fail, they fail to plan.” Have you heard this quote before? We are sure you have. Everything is a learning experience, including annual budgets. Annual budgets are the framework for both the income and expenditures expected to be received and paid each year. Is your organization currently using Microsoft Excel
How Secure are you Around “IoT”?
“The number of Internet-connected devices is growing rapidly and is expected to reach 50 billion by 2020” This data is overwhelming and testifies the importance and reach of IoT. When we talk about IoT in general, we mean all those devices that communicate and can be accessed via the internet based on their IP addresses.
Master Data Management : An Overview
“MDM plays a key role within an information architecture as a provider and custodian of master data to the enterprise.” ― Allen Dreibelbis, Master Data Management (MDM): What is it? With each year of rapidly evolving business requirements, companies have grown their information system landscapes into complex topographies of ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence, Financial Reporting, Planning,
Churn Analytics
Churn Analytics is used to identify the customers who are most likely to discontinue using the services / product. This is applicable horizontally across various industries like Telecom, Banking, Financial, Retail etc. Why Churn Analytics is important: As the competition among the industries is growing day by day, the cost of acquiring new customer is
Customer lifetime value
Introduction to CLV Customer lifetime value (CLV) is a metric that represents the total net profit a company makes from any given customer. CLV is a projection to estimate a customer’s monetary worth to a business after factoring in the value of the relationship with a customer over time. CLV is an important metric for
Testing of SAP S/4 HANA System
SAP S/4 HANA (Business Suite for High-Performance Analytic Appliance) is a business suite offering that is built on an in-memory computing platform called SAP HANA. Previously, SAP Products are designed to run on any platform including those from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. However, SAP S/4 HANA only runs on SAP HANA database. The offering is
Quality Measurement Framework
Importance of Metrics Measurement has always been fundamental to the progress to any engineering discipline. Software metrics have been used in making quantitative/qualitative decisions as well as in risk assessment in software projects. Software measurement has become a key aspect of good software engineering practice. Measurement activities add value and keep us actively involved in, and