About TCS’ Enterprise Solutions Unit
TCS Enterprise Performance
Management Solutions for Improved
Business Planning and Consolidation
With one of the most powerful IT consulting and services portfolios in the world, TCS'
Enterprise Solutions help companies optimize data and workflow, manage risk and
compliance, increase operational efficiency and productivity, and reach peak performance.
TCS' Enterprise Solutions drive business transformations, empowering our clients to take
advantage of emerging opportunities and market dynamics. From IT strategy and
transformation to enterprise-wide software applications, we optimize technology and
business processes. Through our Centers of Excellence and Innovation Labs, coupled with our
functional business expertise, we develop custom industry solutions and accelerators. Our
proven, repeatable and scalable methodology enables enterprises to realize the maximum
business value from investments.
Our success is bolstered by long-term strategic alliances with the world's most advanced
business software companies, helping us deliver better, faster, and more cost-effective
solutions.
Enterprise Solutions
Contact
To know more about TCS EPM and BPC solutions, contact global.marketing@tcs.com
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that
delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match.
TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled, infrastructure, engineering
and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery ModelTM,
recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group,
India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has a global footprint and is listed on the National
Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
All content / information present here is the exclusive property of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS). The content / information contained here is
correct at the time of publishing. No material from here may be copied, modified, reproduced, republished, uploaded, transmitted, posted or
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CEOs, CFOs and their financial management teams are looking to optimize sales and
operational budget planning, forecasting, and consolidation activities to gain critical
visibility into changing business conditions. Too often, financial management teams
operate with diminished capabilities. They invest a lot of time in compiling information
instead of using it. Most often the information is inconsistent or errant, the process of
collecting it is slow or it's unavailable.
Implementation KPIs
Project
Preparation
Business Blueprint
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p
Wo
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3W
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Ite
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ive
L0
BPML
Estimator
Industry
Processes
Final Preparation
Go-Live &
Support
L3
BPML
L1
TCS helps leading organizations gain greater insight into their business planning and
consolidation activities. By embracing Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), a
new level of planning sophistication and agility is possible, transforming a painful data
collection task into an art of strategic decision-making. Companies can more accurately
close the books, shorten budgeting cycles and satisfy compliance requirements while
reacting quickly to changing production and sales patterns.
Realization
L2
Business
Blueprint
Unit Testing
TM
Agile
Integration Testing
Design
Deliver
Refine
Business
Process
Modeler
UAT
Config,
Development
Testing
Training,
Cutover
Post Go-live
& Support
Business KPIs
Efforts
Effort
ETVX, iPMS, iQMS
Overview
Many organizations face serious challenges in their core
planning and consolidation activities. Planning
decisions are often made without considering supply
chain constraints and profitability. Accurate information
is not available, and some departments fail to provide it
at all. More time is spent assembling the data than
planning. Most frequently, the environment is severely
fragmented, with no connection between aggregate
and detail planning, and great difficulties exist in
gathering feedback or sharing data.
create a strategy and blueprint for a new future state,
and then implement the transformation - inclusive of
people, process and technology. TCS can also help
manage and maintain BPC applications on an
ongoing basis. Our services include:

Strategic implementation services including
assessments, planning, blueprint creation, business
case development, process design, technology
configuration and integration, value realization and
change management.

Rapid deployment models that enable our clients
to quickly realize capabilities on accelerated
timeframes using industry-leading templates and
pre-made configurations.
TCS' approach to EPM helps organizations overcome
these challenges through:



Increasing EPM maturity to improve business
planning and consolidation outcomes.
Optimizing orchestration of EPM to improve all facets
of the enterprise including management goal
setting, sales quantity revenue planning, direct and
indirect cost planning, comprehensive profitability
analysis and key metric measurement.
Leveraging leading EPM practices to optimize key
management functions such as strategy formulation,
business planning and forecasting, financial
management and supply chain planning.
Organizations invest in the SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation (BPC) software to improve EPM, but the
application is just the beginning. True EPM excellence
requires new processes, new competencies, improved
data quality, and the expertise to bring the entire
program into an optimized, continually improving state.
Our Solution
TCS brings together the consultants, methodologies,
accelerators, and technologies to deliver
comprehensive EPM and BPC transformations. TCS' EPM
solution can help you assess your current environment,

Service and support solutions that help manage,
maintain and improve the live program over the
long term.
Benefits
Organizations who embrace EPM through TCS' BPC
competency will experience new benefits at multiple
levels. In terms of new business outcomes, a high
performing EPM function will create shorter budget
cycles, faster closing processes, and improved
regulatory compliance. Executives will be able to
make better decisions based on improved scenario
planning and simulation. Executives, managers and
users throughout the enterprise will collaborate and
plan more effectively. Most importantly, they will have
a single, accessible source of the truth, based on
which to make better business plans and superior
strategic decisions.
In terms of BPC implementation, organizations will
realize a highly efficient and effective transformation
process, achieving desired IT capabilities at a
competitive cost. Our approach promotes a high ROI
and low TCO.
T-PACE with the Agile Reality of an Iterative Cycle
How We Help Our Customers
The TCS Advantage
The approach that TCS uses for implementations
combines the best of traditional approaches and Agile
thinking that recognizes the dynamics of BPC
implementations. Our TCS T-PACE (Traceability, Precision,
Agile, Certainty and Efficiency) implementation
methodology is closely correlated to the SAP ASAP™
Methodology.
The core strength of TCS' EPM practitioners lies in our
ability to implement BPC software effectively. We
understand the legal and business structures, data
definitions, metrics and detailed critical information of
every aspect of business planning. We also understand
the specific nuances and daily issues planners have and
how to address them. This deep expertise enables us to
step beyond the application and help you transform
your EPM activities in ways that generate new enterprise
value.
Unlike traditional linear approaches, we believe EPM and
BPC require iteration and collaboration between the
users and developers, ensuring that users are integral to
the development process. Our approach during
development is an iterative cycle consisting of design,
refine and deliver stages. Users are a critical part of the
creation process as they transform their own work
environment. The results often produce revolutionary
changes, new learning and invention, and a flourishing
of new competencies and capabilities.
A major hi-tech company needed a single platform for
data analytics where the planning and actual results of
the data analysis needed to reside in one EPM system.
The company partnered with TCS for the strategic
design, system migration and service and support of
their EPM system. We extended the capabilities of the
initial EPM platform to include BW and BPC on SAP
HANA.
This evolution allowed the company to organize
substantially large amounts of data into actionable
information reports in seconds – a previously
challenging task. With our support, the company has
realized improved business results based on data
analytics.
TCS' BPC practice has over 100 experienced consultants
who have successfully transformed BPC and EPM
practices at over a dozen major enterprises. With our
competency lab in North America, we have developed
many accelerators to speed implementations and raise
the value of SAP BPC. Our leading SAP practice is 10,000
consultants strong and includes functional, technical,
analytics and project management experts. We have a
unique 360 degree partnership with SAP, are a frequent
product development partner and have been awarded
the Pinnacle Award for four consecutive years.
CEOs, CFOs and their financial management teams are looking to optimize sales and
operational budget planning, forecasting, and consolidation activities to gain critical
visibility into changing business conditions. Too often, financial management teams
operate with diminished capabilities. They invest a lot of time in compiling information
instead of using it. Most often the information is inconsistent or errant, the process of
collecting it is slow or it's unavailable.
Implementation KPIs
Project
Preparation
Business Blueprint
ho
p
Wo
r ks
3W
ave
Ite
rat
ive
L0
BPML
Estimator
Industry
Processes
Final Preparation
Go-Live &
Support
L3
BPML
L1
TCS helps leading organizations gain greater insight into their business planning and
consolidation activities. By embracing Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), a
new level of planning sophistication and agility is possible, transforming a painful data
collection task into an art of strategic decision-making. Companies can more accurately
close the books, shorten budgeting cycles and satisfy compliance requirements while
reacting quickly to changing production and sales patterns.
Realization
L2
Business
Blueprint
Unit Testing
TM
Agile
Integration Testing
Design
Deliver
Refine
Business
Process
Modeler
UAT
Config,
Development
Testing
Training,
Cutover
Post Go-live
& Support
Business KPIs
Efforts
Effort
ETVX, iPMS, iQMS
Overview
Many organizations face serious challenges in their core
planning and consolidation activities. Planning
decisions are often made without considering supply
chain constraints and profitability. Accurate information
is not available, and some departments fail to provide it
at all. More time is spent assembling the data than
planning. Most frequently, the environment is severely
fragmented, with no connection between aggregate
and detail planning, and great difficulties exist in
gathering feedback or sharing data.
create a strategy and blueprint for a new future state,
and then implement the transformation - inclusive of
people, process and technology. TCS can also help
manage and maintain BPC applications on an
ongoing basis. Our services include:

Strategic implementation services including
assessments, planning, blueprint creation, business
case development, process design, technology
configuration and integration, value realization and
change management.

Rapid deployment models that enable our clients
to quickly realize capabilities on accelerated
timeframes using industry-leading templates and
pre-made configurations.
TCS' approach to EPM helps organizations overcome
these challenges through:



Increasing EPM maturity to improve business
planning and consolidation outcomes.
Optimizing orchestration of EPM to improve all facets
of the enterprise including management goal
setting, sales quantity revenue planning, direct and
indirect cost planning, comprehensive profitability
analysis and key metric measurement.
Leveraging leading EPM practices to optimize key
management functions such as strategy formulation,
business planning and forecasting, financial
management and supply chain planning.
Organizations invest in the SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation (BPC) software to improve EPM, but the
application is just the beginning. True EPM excellence
requires new processes, new competencies, improved
data quality, and the expertise to bring the entire
program into an optimized, continually improving state.
Our Solution
TCS brings together the consultants, methodologies,
accelerators, and technologies to deliver
comprehensive EPM and BPC transformations. TCS' EPM
solution can help you assess your current environment,

Service and support solutions that help manage,
maintain and improve the live program over the
long term.
Benefits
Organizations who embrace EPM through TCS' BPC
competency will experience new benefits at multiple
levels. In terms of new business outcomes, a high
performing EPM function will create shorter budget
cycles, faster closing processes, and improved
regulatory compliance. Executives will be able to
make better decisions based on improved scenario
planning and simulation. Executives, managers and
users throughout the enterprise will collaborate and
plan more effectively. Most importantly, they will have
a single, accessible source of the truth, based on
which to make better business plans and superior
strategic decisions.
In terms of BPC implementation, organizations will
realize a highly efficient and effective transformation
process, achieving desired IT capabilities at a
competitive cost. Our approach promotes a high ROI
and low TCO.
T-PACE with the Agile Reality of an Iterative Cycle
How We Help Our Customers
The TCS Advantage
The approach that TCS uses for implementations
combines the best of traditional approaches and Agile
thinking that recognizes the dynamics of BPC
implementations. Our TCS T-PACE (Traceability, Precision,
Agile, Certainty and Efficiency) implementation
methodology is closely correlated to the SAP ASAP™
Methodology.
The core strength of TCS' EPM practitioners lies in our
ability to implement BPC software effectively. We
understand the legal and business structures, data
definitions, metrics and detailed critical information of
every aspect of business planning. We also understand
the specific nuances and daily issues planners have and
how to address them. This deep expertise enables us to
step beyond the application and help you transform
your EPM activities in ways that generate new enterprise
value.
Unlike traditional linear approaches, we believe EPM and
BPC require iteration and collaboration between the
users and developers, ensuring that users are integral to
the development process. Our approach during
development is an iterative cycle consisting of design,
refine and deliver stages. Users are a critical part of the
creation process as they transform their own work
environment. The results often produce revolutionary
changes, new learning and invention, and a flourishing
of new competencies and capabilities.
A major hi-tech company needed a single platform for
data analytics where the planning and actual results of
the data analysis needed to reside in one EPM system.
The company partnered with TCS for the strategic
design, system migration and service and support of
their EPM system. We extended the capabilities of the
initial EPM platform to include BW and BPC on SAP
HANA.
This evolution allowed the company to organize
substantially large amounts of data into actionable
information reports in seconds – a previously
challenging task. With our support, the company has
realized improved business results based on data
analytics.
TCS' BPC practice has over 100 experienced consultants
who have successfully transformed BPC and EPM
practices at over a dozen major enterprises. With our
competency lab in North America, we have developed
many accelerators to speed implementations and raise
the value of SAP BPC. Our leading SAP practice is 10,000
consultants strong and includes functional, technical,
analytics and project management experts. We have a
unique 360 degree partnership with SAP, are a frequent
product development partner and have been awarded
the Pinnacle Award for four consecutive years.
About TCS’ Enterprise Solutions Unit
TCS Enterprise Performance
Management Solutions for Improved
Business Planning and Consolidation
With one of the most powerful IT consulting and services portfolios in the world, TCS'
Enterprise Solutions help companies optimize data and workflow, manage risk and
compliance, increase operational efficiency and productivity, and reach peak performance.
TCS' Enterprise Solutions drive business transformations, empowering our clients to take
advantage of emerging opportunities and market dynamics. From IT strategy and
transformation to enterprise-wide software applications, we optimize technology and
business processes. Through our Centers of Excellence and Innovation Labs, coupled with our
functional business expertise, we develop custom industry solutions and accelerators. Our
proven, repeatable and scalable methodology enables enterprises to realize the maximum
business value from investments.
Our success is bolstered by long-term strategic alliances with the world's most advanced
business software companies, helping us deliver better, faster, and more cost-effective
solutions.
Enterprise Solution
Contact
To know more about TCS EPM and BPC solutions, contact global.marketing@tcs.com
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that
delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match.
TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled, infrastructure, engineering
and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery ModelTM,
recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group,
India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has a global footprint and is listed on the National
Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
All content / information present here is the exclusive property of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS). The content / information contained here is
correct at the time of publishing. No material from here may be copied, modified, reproduced, republished, uploaded, transmitted, posted or
distributed in any form without prior written permission from TCS. Unauthorized use of the content / information appearing here may violate copyright,
trademark and other applicable laws, and could result in criminal or civil penalties.
Copyright © 2014 Tata Consultancy Services Limited
TCS Design Services I M I 04 I 14
For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com