By Kirsten Wade
SAP AG has announced the general availability of the SAP Enterprise Performance Management OnDemand (SAP EPM OnDemand) solution.
The solution enables business users to gain real-time insight and make adaptations on the run, with the mobile-ready applications powered by the SAP HANA application cloud.
The first options for SAP EPM OnDemand deliver expense insight, real-time profit and loss (P&L) analysis and capital project planning, with future targeted options. It is designed to complement existing SAP solutions for enterprise performance management (EPM), including SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application.
John Schweitzer, senior vice president and general manager, analytics, SAP, said SAP EPM OnDemand demonstrates SAP’s leadership and innovation in the EPM space.
“Built on the SAP HANA application cloud, SAP EPM OnDemand offers our customers another deployment option for extreme performance applications powered by SAP HANA,” he said. “It’s also complementary to – and extends the value of – the 10.0 version of SAP solutions for EPM with focused applications that are designed to be up and running quickly and help a broad set of users overcome particular business challenges.”
Joshua Greenbaum, principal, Enterprise Applications Consulting, said the solution is suitable for a broad set of users.
“I talk regularly with people in both IT and finance, and while they have big initiatives in place they are also often focused on solving more discrete business problems. On-demand applications can be a great way to do this quickly and cost-effectively,” he said. “In addition, having the same user experience whether on mobile devices or in the on-premise version goes a long way toward guaranteeing high usage rates and lowering training deployment costs.”
