SAP BPC News Blog from Opal Wave

Public cloud spending continues to grow, with IDC estimating that the global market will double to around $500bn by 2023. That may not be surprising to you, but you may be…

Public cloud spending continues to grow, with IDC estimating that the global market will double to around $500bn by 2023. That may not be surprising to you, but you may be…

When we look at market figures for cloud growth, we generally consider the three main categories of Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform…

Whether on premise, in the cloud, or in the boardroom, SAP Analytics is intuitive to use, easy to deploy and helps our customers run at their best.

Producing consolidated financial statements is a vital corporate process - aggregating results within a group on a monthly, half-yearly or annual basis, to give internal and…

The dictionaries tell us management reports are sources of business intelligence that help organisational leaders make better informed and more accurate decisions...

SAP’s Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) application is aptly named. That is because the world’s most advanced all-round enterprise performance management software…

Many senior executives are now under pressure like never before to ensure their organisations achieve targets in areas like income generation and cost control...

Our reputation has taken another leap forward with the awarding of Gold Partner status by leading global business software manufacturer SAP...

What can you really achieve in an hour to improve your business decision-making ability? With SAP Analytics Cloud dashboards it’s probably more than you think. Our customers have…

In a single click AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) Algorithms are applied to your data in SAP Analytics Cloud to...

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Search to Insight enables conversational Business Intelligence using AI algorithms to understand your business questions...

Advances in analytics mean that the opportunity to better understand the landscape and your business has never been greater, but many SMEs are not harnessing these opportunities,…

What can really be achieved in a day that will transform your business? Very little you might think, but we have many happy clients who can tell...

Do you need a planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting solution but have been put off by the thought of the time, effort and cost involved?

There’s less than a month to go until IFRS 16 becomes effective on 1 January 2019 and it could cost your company in...

These improvements uncover correlations in an organisation’s data and help users make even faster, better and more confident...

End-to-end and real-time planning is massively simplified for organisations using SAP Analytics. BI And ERP are the best solutions for Enterprise...

International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 16 becomes effective for accounting periods starting from 1 January 2019...

We’ve stated many times on this website and elsewhere that we recommend SAP HANA to power the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solutions we install, maintain and…

Here, we provide links to a selection of important resources dedicated to IFRS 16 from ourselves and leading accountancy media, professional bodies and firms...

IFRS 16 essentially makes accounting for lease assets and liabilities up-to-date and transparent...

This post describes the IFRS 16 solution for leases developed as a component of the SAP BPC with the Opal Wave BPC Cloud Go Live in a Day rapid deployment template.

You may recall that in January 2018 we welcomed the UK government’s announcement...

We noted in an earlier post that implementation of IFRS 16 would likely result in greater effort for finance teams as they...

The key objective of IFRS 16 and IAS 17 before it, is to improve comparability and transparency of Financial Statements...

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) is the leading, unified enterprise performance management (EPM) solution supporting planning, reporting and consolidation...

IFRS 16 relates to accounting for leases and was issued in January 2016 by The IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) and replaces IAS 17...

IFRS 16 relates to accounting for leases and was issued in January 2016 by The IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) and replaces IAS 17...

With the release of SAP BPC version 11 on the latest BW/4HANA platform, the limitations within the consolidation component in the Embedded model on 10.1 have been...

But what can really be achieved in that time, and, more importantly what difference can anything that’s achievable in a day really make?

In a post last month, we endorsed the UK government’s launching of a review...

Recent market reports have suggested that Oracle is placing heavy pressure on customers with on-premise versions...

We weren’t surprised that SAP posted another set of highly respectable financial results for 2017...

We can aid compliance because, in 2017, we became the world’s first organisation to launch a cloud-based version of the market-leading SAP...

Mid-Bedfordshire Conservative MP Nadine Dorries tweeted recently that she reveals her Parliamentary log-in details to her team...

We welcome the UK government’s announcements that it will make high-speed internet connections a legal right from 2020...

Deciding whether to go down the SAP BPC Standard route or the Embedded Model route is very much dependent on your requirements, your team’s skill set and - one of the most...

One of the latest features of the SAP BPC Cloud solution enables a seamless integration of ECB currency conversion rates. Fouad El Hage, Managing Consultant, tells us more.

Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used personal productivity tools in the world but it could actually be making your job more difficult...

Leading business software consultants Opal Wave have reported a 35 per cent increase in turnover during the year ending 31 March 2017...

Opal Wave continued to expand its roster of big name business clients during a highly successful 2016-17 financial year...

Opal Wave has launched the unique BPC Cloud and become the world’s first company to qualify for the SAP Partner Managed Cloud scheme...

Opal Wave’s BPC Cloud can help organisations avoid significant penalties for failing to comply with two important new initiatives...

Business software experts Opal Wave have recruited four top quality graduates into their prestigious and highly selective associate consultant programme...

But if you’ve never used SAP HANA and are not a specialist in this area, you can easily be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about...

Mainstream support for Windows Server 2012 R2, the server version of Windows 8, is ending in just over a year. That means clients with large Windows clusters now have to...

A recent survey revealed that British companies are now hoarding a dramatically increased amount of the digital currency Bitcoin...

A new version of the cockpit has been added to SAP HANA, which Opal Wave regards as the most advanced in-memory database platforms available to businesses today...

In this unstable and uncertain climate, Opal Wave says effective automation of business planning and consolidation processes is more important than ever...

How confident are you that every piece of technology that underpins your SAP BPC system is performing optimally...

UK-based software consultancy Opal Wave has launched a unique cloud-based version of a market-leading accounting system, bringing it within the reach of even the smallest…

Business software experts Opal Wave have made three key appointments and launched a new website after recording a 50 per cent turnover increase in the last financial year...

With the option to swap the IIS 7.5 logging from standard to ODBC no longer a GUI option the process of setting up logging to the BPCLog table...

Have you ever tried customising the prompts in a BPC Data Manager package to include user defined dimensions?

If you’re in the North of England, you may want to check out our seminar on Wednesday 20 November in conjunction with Bradford Chamber of Commerce...

In SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced the new memory optimized Columnstore Indexes (based on xVelocity)...

As we discuss customer roadmaps for SAP BPC NetWeaver more and more, two fundamental questions keep occurring...

We’re very pleased to be able to announce that Opal Wave has been awarded Gold VAR status by SAP...