SAP Enterprise Performance Management
EPI-USE Analytics assists business leaders to build value and manage risk, by designing and deploying methods and tools for formulating and executing business strategy.
The function of EPI-USE Analytics is to provide business intelligence, with special emphasis on the SAP BusinessObjects Aurora Suite of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tools. These include SAP Strategy Management, Business Planning and Consolidation, and reporting, analytics and visualisation tools.
Our EPM services
EPI-USE Analytics EPM adds value through:
- creating strategic plans in SAP Strategy Management, with dashboard for tracking Corporate Strategy
- determining the KPI and objectives of your balance score-cards, and cascading these down to operations
- integrating your personal objectives to the balance score-card objectives
- modelling the allocation of resources for the Corporate Strategy
- making your strategic undertakings visible, and tracking the progress of actions that drive these undertakings
- clarifying the process by which EXCO members make strategic decisions
- aligning corporate strategies to budgeting, planning and forecasting solutions.
Our EPM methods
Our EPM experts have experience in financial modelling, business modelling and BO BPC. We safeguard your implementation with proven methods that cover all the current SAP BusinessObjects EPM offerings:
- SAP Strategy Management
- Planning, budgeting and forecasting (CAPEX and OPEX)
- Financial consolidation
- Profitability Analysis and Cost Management
- Scenario planning and Business modelling
- Business planning – budgeting and planning for sales and revenue, capital expenditures, headcount staffing, expenses, and cash flow
- Forecasting – rolling forecasts, continuous planning, and collaboration
- Consolidation – intercompany matching and reconciliation, intercompany eliminations, currency translation, allocations, and management and legal consolidation
- Financial reporting and analysis – ad hoc reporting and driver analysis by service or product line, region, and team.
We use our Value Explorer™ tool to accelerate the design of your BPC implementation. This simplifies the modelling process and ensures that the right value-drivers are incorporated into your financial model.
Enterprise platforms
EPI-USE Analytics can extract necessary data from most data sources: relational databases in SAP BW, (JDBC), Multidimensional databases, XML, SOAP, Java beans (POJO), EJB beans, flat files, OLAP cubes, etc.
We support the following enterprise platforms:
- BO BPC 7.5 for MicroSoft SQL
- BO BPC 7.5 NetWeaver SAP BW
- Xcelsius, Voyager and Pioneer dashboarding on EPM Aurora Suite
We also deploy our dashboards on iPad and iPhone, using the Roambi platform.
Our team
Our EPI-USE Analytics team consists of chartered accountants, managers with MBAs, professional engineers, mathematicians, IT professionals and economists – all highly specialised professionals, with proven local and international experience in a range of market sectors.
Our customers find the services we provide invaluable. For example, we are trusted advisors to a large number of blue-chip organisations listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).
We pride ourselves on our ability to innovate. A number of these R&D projects have become part of the services and solutions we offer our customers
