arcplan & SAP BW- IP
Open & flexible

SAP BW-Integrated Planning (SAP BW-IP) clients can now rapidly and easily leverage planning processes by employing flexible planning models and highly visual analytic applications with arcplan. Business users get real-time interactive applications that are more than just reports – without any need for programming.

arcplan adds functionality to SAP BW-Integrated Planning, including:

• Flexible creation of planning applications
• Web- and Excel-based planning applications
• What-if scenarios, simulations, forecasts
• Company-specific process modeling

In addition to safeguarding your investment, making full use of the existing infrastructure, and obtaining a future-proof extendable solution, the combination of arcplan and SAP BW-IP offers the following advantages:

• Data access through BEx queries and direct write-back into InfoCubes
• Integrity of data due to the use of existing SAP infrastructure
• Call and pass parameters to SAP BW-IP functions directly
• Easy integration and optimized support of workflow and process logic (e.g. release processes, notifications, etc.)
• Comprehensive graphic functionality and flexible commenting options
• And many more …

A complete list and more details can be found in our two-page brochure on arcplan for SAP BW-IP. Click here to download the PDF.

According to The BI Survey 12 (2012), arcplan Enterprise is again the most widely-used third-party BI front-end to SAP BW, Oracle Essbase, and IBM Cognos TM1.