BCS/4HANA uses InfoProviders optimized for HANA technology, which offer users more powerful processing of consolidated financial statements coupled with simplified reporting.
BCS/4HANA is currently already available in version 4, and a version jump is also expected for BCS with each upgrade of the underlying BW/4HANA platform.
very high flexibility of the data model, including full matrix consolidation (i.e. simultaneous consolidated financial statements in the legal and management dimensions)
i.e. simultaneous consolidated financial statements in the legal and management dimension
a high degree of automation for complex business scenarios (such as intercompany profit elimination and consolidation of investments)
Numerous users of SEM-BCS are currently faced with the more or less urgent question of which consolidation system and on which technical basis they should work in the future.
The reason for this is the end of the maintenance cycle for SAP BW NetWeaver.
(The official maintenance cycle for SAP BW versions 7.3 and 7.4 has already ended, while the maintenance cycle for version 7.5 runs until 2027 for standard maintenance and until 2030 for extended maintenance).
As the direct migration from NetWeaver to the new strategic solution S/4HANA for Group Reporting would be too integrated and complex for many customers, SAP has made BCS available in a new product license as an add-on for BW/4HANA.
BW/4HANA is known as the strategic successor product to SAP BW NetWeaver and offers state-of-the-art data warehouse technology.