• SAP BPC 10.1 Classic for NetWeaver (On BW)
• Same as it as predecessor i.e. SAP BPC 10.0 (Standard).
• It can be easily maintained by finance or the business users.
• Data is saved in BPC it will get stored in the BW system under the namespace /CPMB.
• The HANA database (DB) is not mandatory, it can operate on databases such as SAP, Sybase, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server etc.
• Excel client is the EPM Add-In or Analysis for Office (AO) EPM Plug-in used as reporting tool
• SAP BPC 10.1 Embedded for Net weaver (On BW)
• Considered as an evolution of BW-IP. BW-IP + BPC flexibility led to the advent of SAP BPC 10.1 Embedded.
• IT centric, requires deep technical knowledge for the maintenance. Still finance / business users own and can update / modify certain objects E.g. Dimensions, BPF and Work status configuration etc.
• HANA DB is mandatory
• Bex Query acts as the reporting layer and the recommended excel client is Analysis Plugin.
• SAP BPC for NetWeaver (On BW/4HANA)
• BPC 11.0 supports both standard (classic) and embedded models.
• Latest release of BPC on top of BW/4HANA. Unlike BPC optimized
• It is a standalone solution; you need to replicate master data and transactional data.
• The EPM Plug-in and Analysis for Office (AO) plugin shall be used for BPC standard models and embedded models respectively.
• With the deeper integration with SAP Analytics Cloud, the SAP Analytics Cloud web client can also be used for planning and analysis on BPC data.
• The SAP Business Explorer (BEx) is not supported any more. Queries are now defined in SAP BW, Edition for SAP HANA in the BW Modeling tools (BWMT).
• SAP BPC Optimized (on S4/Finance)
• SAP BPC optimized for S/4HANA is an add-on to the S/4HANA solution.
• SAP BPC optimized for S/4HANA access transaction data in real time (ACDOCA table) thus eliminating the need for data replication.
• It comes with pre-defined planning models for easy and quick adoption with various planning templates and BW and HANA content.

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