5 Tips to Effectively Migrate Your Planning to SAP Analytics Cloud

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5 Tips to Effectively Migrate Your Planning to SAP Analytics Cloud

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
What is SAP Analytics Cloud?
What is SAP Business Planning & Consolidation?
Why Does Your Business Need to migrate to SAC for Planning from SAP BPC?
Migrate to SAP Analytics Cloud from SAP BPC with VC ERP Consulting Today!

Entrepreneurs are reassessing their assumptions and strengthening their capability to survive
through such periods. In this scenario, those who have already implemented SAP S/4HANA, the
next-generation ERP know well how well does SAP S/4HANA lend a helping hand by playing an
active role in workforce and crisis management. Migrate your planning to SAP Analytics Cloud
to unlock the tremendous potential of successful business planning and intelligence.
In fact, SAP Analytics Cloud is much more than just a robust BI solution for SAP S/4HANA. It
offers in-built planning and analytical capabilities essential to combat the unpredictable
business terrain.
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for SAP S/4HANA is an advanced business intelligence solution that is
designed to change the way businesses plan their strategies to survive and thrive.
SAC when integrated with SAP S/4HANA augments SAP S/4HANA’s planning capabilities even
further. Not only does it get you actionable insights of your business, it forecasts market trends
so you can strategize your product strategy to deliver customized products.
Enhance SAP S/4HANA ERP System with in-built analytical and planning capabilities of SAP
Analytics Cloud for an optimized business user experience. This powerful BI, analytics, planning
and forecasting solution offers real-time insights to optimize resources across various
departments and processes.
Before diving deep into how SAP Analytics Cloud benefits modern businesses, experts at VC ERP
Consulting, best SAC implementation partner share a few quick insights on SAP Analytics Cloud
to get you started.

What is SAP Analytics Cloud?
SAP Analytics Cloud is the One-stop-solution for your planning & prediction, business
intelligence and augmented analytics in a simple cloud-based environment.
Meet the needs of data visualization in the cloud with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) that offers all
necessary functions including planning, prediction and business intelligence on a single UI (User
Interface).
SAC comes in two variants- Private and Public. The Private edition is a single tenant hosting
while the Public edition has multi-tenancy.
Here are some of the many benefits of SAP Analytics Cloud:
 Align your company expenses & cost strategies across various teams
 Get rid of sending out unnecessary emails with irrelevant plans and maintain productivity
through real-time collaboration
 Automate the baseline expense planning by analyzing the previous data with predictive
features
 Simulate outcomes for various ranges of budget with machine learning and augmented
analytics functionality
 Convert insight into action and make real-time decisions without any agenda or biases
 Achieve operational visibility using end-to-end operations dashboard to get real-time reports
and actionable insights
Many organizations, especially those using legacy planning solutions like SAP Business Planning
and Consolidation (BPC), plan to move their planning to SAP Analytics Cloud, the state-of-the-
art planning & analytics tool. SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP S/4HANA are a powerful
combination for competitive businesses.

What is SAP Business Planning & Consolidation?
SAP Business Planning & Consolidation offers a single view of financial data and a unified
solution that supports Performance Management processes like
 Adjusting plans and forecasts
 Speeding up the budget and closing cycles
 Strategic planning using built-in functionalities

Why Does Your Business Need to migrate to SAC for
Planning from SAP BPC?
Now that we understand the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP BPC, let us dive
deeper into understanding the key differences between SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP
BPC.
SAP BPC SAP SAC
The SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
(SAP BPC) application delivers planning,
budgeting, forecasting and financial
consolidation capabilities. Easily adjust plans
and forecasts, speed up budget and closing
cycles and ensure compliance with financial
reporting standards.
SAP Analytics Cloud can enable you to create
cutting-edge analytics with a complete
solution. It automates insights with machine
learning and allows you to compose
specialized analytics apps faster and deliver
high-performance analytics at scale.
BPC optimized for S/4HANA comes with
planning content.
Financial planning and analysis content
available connecting live to S/4HANA.
Account based calculations, business rule to
calculate cash flow from balance sheet
movements.
Cash Flow calculation can be set up with
advanced formulas.
The main user interface is embedded into
Excel. This provides flexibility in the
development of input schedules and reports,
but comes with stability issues and
limitations in building graphical user
interfaces.
As this is a cloud solution, the user interface
is web based. Input screens are embedded
into SAC stories, which offer on top of tables
and grids, a large set of graphical analytics.
The user experience is excellent.
In order to build forecast input schedules,
specialized BPC knowledge is required.
A built-in functionality exists to build forecast
input tables.
Developing customized planning workbooks
could be tricky in BPC, especially in BPC
embedded.
A very user-friendly interface exists to
develop more customized planning screens.
For real developers, analytical applications
allow javascript programming.
Roles in BPC standard are not present, data
access and task profiles are assigned directly
to teams. BPC embedded uses SAP standard’s
security concepts.
Security concepts are more extensive
compared to BPC standard. Roles can be
created which can combine tasks and data
privacy, similar to SAP standard roles. Roles
can be assigned to teams.
No self-service exists in BPC standard, except
if setup is done entirely in the SAP backend.
A self-service exists by which users can
request roles.

Audit can be activated for administration
activities and data changes.
Audit data is logged when data is published
from a private version.
Business process flows are available for BPC
standard and embedded, to configure the
steps required to complete a planning
process.
Processes and tasks can be configured from
the calendar.
Collaboration is not present in BPC. SAC integrates an online collaboration tool.
Exporting data to SAP BW is to be developed
manually.
SAC can write (write back) directly into SAP
BPC embedded models.
There are significant reasons for SAP BPC migrations; however, the most pertinent question is
how to effectively migrate from SAP BPC to SAP Analytics Cloud for Enterprise Planning. Read
on.

5 Tips to Effectively Migrate Your Planning to SAP
Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud has proven to be an innovative business intelligence solution suitable for
handling very large datasets with various functions unified in one easy-to-use cloud product.
This cloud solution has a web-based user interface offering a large set of graphical analytics on
top of tables and grids offering an excellent UX.
Below are the 5 most effective tips/ best practices for migration from SAP BPC
(Microsoft/Netweaver versions) to SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning:
1. It’s All About Choosing The Right Path
Business leaders must identify the needs & requirements for migration to SAP Analytics
Cloud.There is no hard and fast rule that an organization needs to completely migrate its
planning to SAP Analytics Cloud. It can also choose other planning scenarios like:
 Complement your planning in SAP BPC and SAP Analytics Cloud with hybrid planning by
expanding existing planning capabilities
 Add new functional/departmental plans in SAP Analytics Cloud while the enterprise
level planning is done in SAP BPC enabling better collaboration and visualization
 Based on your organization’s industry and its cloud readiness, completely migrate its
planning processes to SAP Analytics Cloud
As there are more than one scenario, stakeholders need to decide the right scenario that works
best. Complete migration of an organization’s existing planning processes is not the only option
while an organization is thinking of using SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning.
Pro Tip by VC ERP: Do a thorough internal assessment of your planning needs before choosing
the right path.

2. Lifting & Shifting the Processes will not be Enough
In many cases, migration is considered a mere lift and shift of all planning models, transaction
data, master data, dimensions and reports. However, a simple lift and shift of processes from
SAP BPC to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) may not be the most effective option without careful
strategic intervention.
Such a migration project gives the organization a golden opportunity to clean up existing
processes and models. If the existing system contains redundant objects like dimensions,
master data or reports, this entire baggage gets migrated to SAP Analytics Cloud dramatically
reducing the efficiency of SAC solution.
Hence, an in-depth assessment of all the modeling components in the existing SAP BPC version
is pivotal in establishing a clean SAP Analytics Cloud solution.
Pro Tip by VC ERP: Performing an in-depth analysis manually can be quite tedious, consider
using process mining & system assessment tools to accelerate this step.

3. Optimize & Refine Your Business Processes Before Migration
Enhancing your existing business processes to meet your growing business requirements holds
great significance making a simple lift & shift ineffective.
As mentioned, the migration project helps organizations re-address their golden circle
approach for planning i.e. the ‘WHY’, ‘WHAT’ and ‘HOW’ of Planning.
It allows them to optimize their processes and refine their value drivers and metrics. This will
ensure the processes in SAP Analytics Cloud deliver results and improve business performance.
Pro Tip by VC ERP: Re-assess and Re-calibrate the organization’s drivers, metrics before
migration.

4. Collaborate With End Users Before Final Deployment
Align your entire organization on specific objectives, metrics and value driver trees that drive
business performance. As it is very important for businesses to align while creating planning
processes of high importance.
Even while migrating, an organization needs to collaborate with all the relevant planners,
business users and information consumers across departments to finalize the metrics and
drivers required for planning.
Pro Tip by VC ERP: Don’t make the migration an IT department’s job. Involve all the business
users responsible for enterprise planning.

5. Eliminate Manual Inefficiencies Involved in the Migration
Migration requires several man-hours, especially if the organization is vast and the SAP BPC
environment covers processes across multiple entities.
High manual intervention leads to a rise in inefficiencies involved in the project. Therefore, it is
necessary to identify the tools that can assist or automate tedious tasks like coding and assessment
involved in the migration activity.
This helps in accelerating the entire project while improving its effectiveness.
Pro Tip by VC ERP: Perform detailed research in the market to identify tools/System integrators that
automate major portions of the migration.

Migrate to SAP Analytics Cloud from SAP BPC with VC
ERP Consulting Today!
Modern businesses need to predict changes and trends early on to remain competitive. SAP
Analytics Cloud enables companies to minimize the impact of crisis through insights, analytics,
forecasts and much more.
Migrate to SAP Analytics Cloud with VC ERP Consulting, the Best SAP Gold Partner, to harness
the power of business intelligence with extraordinary planning capabilities.
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