SAP Solution: Barc

Consolidation makes way for integrated group accounting. Best-in-class companies are investing in new areas such as ESG and advanced analytics.

Pledge allegiance to SAP or seek alternatives? This question is being discussed more and more frequently among executives. It is not about Abap, SolMan or Hana, but about a new ERP beyond S/4. SAP has not yet understood this discussion.

BARC compared vendors of enterprise BI platforms in the course of the BARC Score Enterprise BI and Analytics Platforms - and came to an interesting conclusion.

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.

Companies are striving to establish a data-driven corporate culture and, in the process, to integrate data more closely into operational and strategic processes.

Predictive technologies are currently driving the market for BI and analytics and thus also for planning tools. A Barc study examines the significance of predictive planning and forecasting for corporate planning.

Advanced analytics is currently an important topic for 40 percent of companies.

According to a recent survey, lack of expertise and budgets are among the biggest hurdles to data preparation initiatives.

More and more companies are recognizing that the ability to use data systematically gives them a competitive edge, and are therefore increasingly focusing on data preparation.

"And every day the groundhog says hello" - the article by Lünendonk partner Mario Zillmann on master data quality in the March issue of E-3 Magazine is involuntarily reminiscent of the title of the U.S. film comedy in which the protagonist is stuck in a time loop, reliving one and the same day over and over again.