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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe SAP BPC software is designed to help users plan and achieve a faster, more accurate close. The SAP BPC software aims to help users spend more time growing their business and less time closing books. The vendor’s value proposition is that their software delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities in a single application. This, in turn, enables them to easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with…N/A

    Workday Financial Management

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AWorkday Financial Management is a native cloud solution built on a global foundation designed to enable accounting teams to operate with greater productivity, superior insights, and adapt to changing business needs. Its AI embedded features improve financial business processes like record to report and opportunity to cash while strengthening internal controls, and enabling consistency across global operations. Powered by an in-memory architecture and object data…N/A
    Pricing
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)Workday Financial Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)Workday Financial Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)Workday Financial Management
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    SAP
    Chose SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    We plan to move to a web-based tool within the next two years. Workday is building a planning model within their finance tool, which we are evaluating, and we are looking at other tools such as Adaptive and Tidemark as alternative platforms. We expect to need some …
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    Workday
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    Features
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)Workday Financial Management
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    7.8
    37 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    -
    Ratings
    Long-term financial planning8.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial budgeting8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forecasting8.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scenario modeling7.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management reporting7.936 Ratings00 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    7.9
    36 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    -
    Ratings
    Financial data consolidation8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports7.828 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency management8.325 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations7.828 Ratings00 Ratings
    Minority Ownership7.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails8.227 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    8.0
    36 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    -
    Ratings
    Financial Statement Reporting8.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Reporting8.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting8.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting8.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    8.6
    32 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Workday Financial Management
    -
    Ratings
    Personalized dashboards9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards9.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    KPIs8.930 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting9.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data7.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    7.0
    35 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    -
    Ratings
    Flat file integration7.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel data integration8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources6.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.4
    19 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings8.719 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings8.916 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.616 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.5
    17 Ratings
    11% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    9.0
    21 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.7
    23 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.523 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.120 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.718 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.5
    19 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings8.914 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Global Financial Support00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings8.715 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings8.912 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings9.116 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    8.7
    8 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings8.68 Ratings
    Location management00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Financial Management
    9.1
    9 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Credit card processing00 Ratings9.19 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)Workday Financial Management
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Zoho One
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score10 out of 10
    Microsoft Dynamics AX (discontinued)
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)Workday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    8.9
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.6
    (36 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)Workday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) overall is a good package and has helped improve our reporting a lot whilst also making it more efficient due to the reliability of data input / output. There are limitations like graphs being so limited in functionality and reports failing when too much data being processed however i would recommend to others.
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    Workday
    Workday is well suited for managing employees throughout their full life cycle. It excels at housing employee data from the start of their time with the company through their departure. Workday is less suited to payroll functions, which could be more robust.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • SAP BPC is real time data. You can send information into the system and see it reflected in your reports immediately. Other systems may require a manual push into a reporting system.
    • SAP BPC is a shared reporting tool, so multiple users can be working in a model/environment at the same time, real time. This is especially helpful if your workbooks incorporated multiple processes requiring multiple users to get into the same model.
    • SAP BPC is a powerful tool designed to help all facets of the company, from cash flow to capital expenditures to headcount management to financial planning to consolidation.
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    Workday
    • The flexibility of going beyond handling the accounts, where we can handle cash, assets, and accounting simultaneously for the customer.
    • The single platform offers grants management where you can organize the lifecycle of the grants and synchronize it with any criteria of grant closing out scheme.
    • I personally liked Project billing with the essence of evaluating project revenue and nice reporting templates that can be shared with the customer at any stage of the project while having the flexibility of auditing the reported cost.
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    Cons
    SAP
    • SAP should focus on delivering one single product for planning, consolidation and budgeting needs rather than providing a large list of options to choose from.
    • The product is not very user-friendly compared to other cloud competitors. There is a heavy dependency on IT teams.
    • SAP BPC should come up a pure cloud option.
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    Workday
    • Some of the Workday updates last till like 10 in the morning which prevents employees to clock in and check their times and some cases their schedules
    • Workday can work on opening documents quicker instead of taking couple of minutes or notifying the user when they are ready to download
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    Usability
    SAP
    Unlike other SAP traditional products, SAP BPC was meant to be simple and familiar to financial users
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    Workday
    Workday is easy enough navigate, as long as it is properly set up. With that said, it can be put together in a modular fashion as well, allowing for a very high degree of flexibility in terms of design and process delegation. Finally, it makes consolidation achievable in times previously unthinkable.
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    We need a big support team with various skillset like BPC, ABAP, BW, HANA, FICO etc
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    Workday
    Our support team has been awesome. They are extremely knowledgeable and have been able to guide us through all of the challenges we have faced. Workday's community online is also extremely helpful with many trainings and help topics that can be reviewed at your convenience.
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    In-Person Training
    SAP
    SAP BPC training content and trainers are very good. The training is structured and provides a very good understanding of the product features and functionalities. I attended 6 separate training sessions of week-long or more. I had very good experience in all the sessions. The training is organized very well.
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    Workday
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    Online Training
    SAP
    SAP Training contents are very good, informative and exhaustive.
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    Workday
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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    The implementation was carried out in two phases spread over a period of 4 years with 2 upgrades in between. We also had multiple upgrades to HANA.
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    Workday
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    With Hyperion we struggled as it didn’t have integrated planning and consolidation, whereas BPC does have it. BPC is easier for reporting as it is Excel-based. Also BPC has prepackaged business process flows that helped a lot. Hyperion on the other hand has a faster response time for user queries or report generation.
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    Workday
    Despite Airtable also being easier to use one thing that differentiates and put forth Workday Financial Management tool above is it's key features and better suited functionality for handling confidential data. The other positive note where Workday Financial Management performs high is it key analytics tool that's easier to use and representation of information into insightful dashboards.
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    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • When originally implemented (as the predecessor product Outlooksoft) BPC took ASU from trying to budget and forecast for a 2B enterprise out of spreadsheets and into a far more consolidated tool. It has saved us considerable time over the years and paid for itself several times over.
    • BPC also allows us to present our budget in multiple different views to support management, board and departmental reporting.
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    Workday
    • We were able to combine 4 different HR modules into one system.
    • We reduced data breach incidents by 95% after shifting to Workday. One of our legacy softwares had vulnerabilities.
    • The initial learning curve was higher than projected. We spent about a week to 10 days extra time deploying it, which affected the profit center that year.
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    ScreenShots

    SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Screenshots

    Screenshot of SAP BPC Home ScreenScreenshot of SAP BPC Web ClientScreenshot of SAP BPC DashboardScreenshot of SAP BPC Web Report

    Workday Financial Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of a discovery boardScreenshot of financial resultsScreenshot of operational analysis