Martin Buhler from Atlas Copco, will be presenting the Atlas Copco experience from moving from Hyperion to SAP BPC, and how currently SAP BPC is be deployed for various scenarios in the business.

Opal Wave are sponsoring this SIG and Simon Bell from Opal Wave Solutions will present Budgeting and Planning and Consolidation in the mobile age. See and hear how Finance Professionals are overcoming the real challenges and reaping the benefits of mobile access to their corporate systems including the need to involve more people, to have fast, responsive and agile solutions that support the business planning and reporting functions.

Key points:

• Find out how you can deliver better quality budgets and forecasts faster and with less effort.
  • Find out how you can incorporate mobile users with their own devices without compromising on your data governance.
• See how users can collaborate in a secure and reliable environment without the need for complex linked spreadsheets.
•  Find out how you can deliver improved profitability, cost control, customer service, growth and shareholder value.

Simon Bell will explain and demonstrate the latest capabilities, and  how they affect and can benefit your orgniasation as well as how these can be deployed rapidly and with surety at a cost possible for all sizes of organisations.

Stephen Green from BP will present The role of dashboards in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). As part of wider project to standardise, simplify and stop the unnecessary proliferation of MI across the Lubricants business BP has made extensive use of Xcelsius dashboards to drive rigour and discipline into many core performance management processes. In this session BP will share some learnings from their journey to date and provide some examples of the dashboards which are currently being used in the business today.

Chris Grundy from SAP will be Introducing the SAP Enterprise Performance Management Road Map. Enterprise Performance Management applications can bring great benefits to organisations, in terms of increased organisational alignment and agility, the ability to make better and more profitable decisions as well as through delivery of a faster and more reliable close-to-disclose process. Join this session to hear about the newly updated SAP Product Road Map for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) for Finance. Learn about details of SAPs EPM strategy, including the functions available today, as well as the direction for future releases of SAPs EPM 10.0 suite. In addition this session will highlight the trends that will drive longer term direction of EPM solutions.