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Simon Bell, Founding DirectorHuman history has time and again substantiated these words by the father of evolution. Coincidentally, one cannot deny that this quote also draws a fascinating parallel with the business world. Amidst the ever-evolving business climate, the mightiest giants have fallen, and so have those claiming to be the most intuitive too. Only those that happen to be quick on their feet in the face of adversities have been able to overcome the hardships of ‘change.’
A case in point is an online global provider of end-to-end luxury fashion retail platform and marketplace FARFETCH that had decided to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, via an IPO, in September 2018. However, the group realised that continuing to use its existing ERP system, combined with tools including Microsoft Excel, for tasks such as management reporting, budgeting, and financial consolidation would not allow it to satisfy the stringent requirements imposed on public companies. The enterprise knew that they needed a more advanced platform like SAP to be able to streamline their business operations. The question was, how were they going to facilitate a seamless transition to a newer infrastructure?
FARFETCH found its answer with Opal Wave—the providers of leading enterprise performance management solutions through SAP Platform, SAP BPC, and S/4 Finance services. Opal Wave recommended its SAP BPC system that gave FARFETCH the confidence, f lexibility, resources, and skillsets needed to get their system up and running in a short timeframe. An added plus was the affordability of Opal Wave’s services.
When it comes to enterprise performance management, nothing beats Opal Wave. Identifying themselves as specialists in performance management, with an emphasis on SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation enterprise performance management software, it works towards empowering the organisation by improving consolidation, planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting capabilities. With a team well-versed in major performance management software, the London-based firm has gained a detailed understanding of what works, and what doesn’t. To better understand how let us take a brief look at its offerings.
The company’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a breakthrough in SAP application hosting and management, taking hybrid cloud development to the next level. Covering all SAP and other solutions and capable of being customised to meet customers’ unique deployment needs, the highly scalable PaaS integrates seamlessly with on-premise applications.
To that end, Opal Wave’s Platform and Managed Cloud services ensure that clients have a robust and reliable infrastructure in which their SAP HANA and BW/4 solutions can run successfully. To sum up, Opal Wave enables customers to enjoy the best of both worlds, on-premise, private, and public clouds to deliver ultimate performance.
FARFETCH found its answer with Opal Wave—the providers of leading enterprise performance management solutions through SAP Platform, SAP BPC, and S/4 Finance services
SAP Finance–the company’s yet another branch transforms financial operations by incorporating robust core ERP finance as well as advanced FP&A, compliance, cash management, and more functionalities on-premise or in the cloud. Giving new levels of prediction capabilities to CFO teams, Opal Wave empowers finance teams by curbing the long hours spent on mechanics and driving enterprise-wide growth and strategic initiatives. How? By leveraging SAP S/4HANA services that optimise the agility of finance processes and helps firms gain end-to-end analytics. Embedded in users’ legacy ERP modules, SAP S/4HANA creates a common master data that enable anytime access to local and group reporting. This allows customers to detect drivers of KPI and equips them with predictive forecasting tools.
At the core, Opal Wave’s goal is to provide better performance management, where the solution provided is aligned with the client’s business objectives, responsive to the needs of all its users, and adaptable to changing business circumstances. Its solutions enable customers to perform better and achieve more supported by our best-in-class services spanning strategic guidance, process re-engineering, systems implementation, and support. Underpinned by a deep technical capability and private cloud options, Opal Wave ensures its customers can perform better-using systems that are optimally designed and built to support the processes that are right for them. With many reference-able customers with successful deployments of SAP BPC and other EPM and BI solutions built on standard technologies from Microsoft and other vendors, the company provides the assurance users need in progressing their EPM solution deployment.
Safe to say, through its comprehensive range of managed hosted platforms, Opal Wave lets companies make intelligent analytical decisions. Whether LoB or Finance, users across the business can extract maximum benefit of their data assets using the company’s advanced tools and embedded machine learning capabilities. The company supports clients throughout the life of their performance management system, guiding them in the creation of the correct performance management strategy, implementing the software solution, training users, and providing post-implementation hosting and support. It even brings intelligent insights to attention, enables faster decisions, reduces risks and time limitations, and equips enterprises to outmaneuver the competition curve easily.
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Company
Opal Wave Solutions
Management
Simon Bell, Founding Director
Description
Opal Wave empowers its customers with better and faster decision making capabilities across the organisation. It specialises in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), including SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), S/4 HANA Finance Group Reporting as well as our leading SAP Platform and Hosting services. Through its comprehensive range of managed hosted platforms, Opal Wave lets companies make intelligent analytical decisions. Whether LoB or Finance, users across the business can extract maximum benefit of their data assets using the company’s advanced tools and embedded machine learning capabilities. It even brings intelligent insights to attention, enables faster decisions, reduces risks and time limitations, and equips enterprises to outmaneuver the competition curve easily
