Why the SAP ecosystem requires a best-of-breed planning, reporting, and analysis solution
SAP provides broad enterprise software including functions for planning, analysis, and reporting. However, configuring and using these applications is time consuming and requires major IT support. This often forces business users to ‘export to Excel’ and work offline in unstructured spreadsheets that have no security and no enterprise controls. In addition to security concerns, inefficiency caused by disconnected Excel-based processes include version control, human error, and data volume constraints. Some of these costs are hidden, but many are significant and negatively affect top- and bottom-line results.