Business Challenge

• The client was working on a legacy system for their financial needs
• The Corporate Accounting Group required a that system that allows flexibility, mature planning features, and better performance
• The legacy system was not compatible with their existing IT Strategy and was also not aligned to the corporate strategy
• The system was prone to security risks with requiring customization to provide all the requested capabilities
• It was well integrated with their SAP Platform
• To minimize the change management efforts, the client required that the templates and reports be like the one for the existing legacy systems

The Solution

TekLink helped the client conjure, design, and implement the transitioning of data from Oracle’s Essbase to SAP BPC 10.0 on HANA.

TekLink’s solution included:

• Architecting a solution that is more flexible and better control to the Corporate Accounting Group
• Replicating the look and feel of the existing reports to minimize the change management efforts
• Implementing improvements to the templates to ease the maintenance process and reduce errors
• Extensively testing the legacy system to ensure data and reporting accuracy
• Implementing the solution to control the submission process using BPC features for an on-time closing
• Provided on-site support before and after the transition to the SAP BPC in both legacy, and current SAP and non-SAP Planning Solutions
• Simplifying the rollover process for every year by improving the model design and leveraging TIME Dimension and its properties
• Migration of 11 years of historical data including the master, original, and the re-aligned transactional data

Key Benefits

• A significant cost saving for the implementation with the help of on-site and offshore teams
• Significant performance improvements – 1.5 to 2 hours of reporting in a legacy system reduced to less than 10 minutes with SAP BPC
• Data Integrity was tested for accuracy with the legacy systems throughout the transition process, with all the critical issues resolved.