SAP BPC Customer Summit in Las Vegas Ends on Upbeat Note

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To plan accurately for upcoming shows, for example, the application allows them to enter statistics such as number of tickets sold, average cost, etc., to calculate revenue and expense.Challenges include large volumes of data from worldwide operations, a constantly changing organization structure, high expectations for performance and up-time, and auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements.Technical sessions today included advanced reporting techniques, methods for creating business rules, performance tuning, and integration with business intelligence tools, along with an overview of the SAP Netweaver platform.The Finance track featured sessions on the management process, including a workshop that provided a framework organizations can use as the basis for defining and documenting their management processes.For Finance executives, the conference provided insight into best practices in planning, budgeting, forecasting and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), with a look at the impact these practices have on how organizations leverage BPC and other SAP products.The American SAP User Group (ASUG) used this forum to create a new Management Process Special Interest Group (SIG), which held its inaugural meeting today.SAP BPC customers Live Nation and Northern California Public Broadcasting (NCPB) presented case studies.Live Nation is the largest producer of live concerts in the world, producing over 16,000 concerts for 1,500 artists in 57 countries each year.Challenges include large volumes of data from worldwide operations, a constantly changing organization structure, high expectations for performance and up-time, and auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements.

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