BARC DeepDive Workshop
How do you keep data quality and consistency intact across reporting, planning, and consolidation? How do you organize data in a way that is sustainable, scalable, and compliant? And how do you keep it under your control, so you can run the business on it, including AI use cases?
Start by clarifying which tasks SAP, data platforms, corporate performance management (CPM), BI, and analytics should own. The CPM Architecture Workshop turns those answers into a solid target architecture with clear requirements and defined next steps.
Our workshops are aimed at enduser companies. Final pricing depends on scope and customization.
Interested? Contact us to request a tailored proposal.
Or can the CPM system pull the data directly from SAP? Which tasks belong in the data platform, and which belong in planning and consolidation? And how do the results flow back?
These questions cannot be answered with a generic architecture model. The answer depends on your use cases, your existing system landscape, and your requirements for integration, data quality, security, and operations.
If these points remain open before a software or platform decision, finance and IT often define system roles and interfaces only once the project is already running. That increases coordination effort and makes it harder to compare proposals reliably.
The CPM Architecture Workshop gives finance and IT a shared basis for decisions. You can use it ahead of a software selection or as a standalone architecture engagement.
Together, we develop a target architecture that reflects your requirements rather than the logic of a single product or architecture trend.
If a data platform is an option, we compile a long list at the strategy and portfolio level. A detailed product evaluation or software selection follows separately if needed.
After the workshop, you know which architecture fits your situation and which decisions come next.
Depending on the agreed scope, you receive:
This way, you assess software and platforms against requirements you have defined together, instead of retrofitting the architecture to a product you have already chosen, or purchasing software that does not fit that architecture.
BARC combines corporate performance management experience with market and architecture knowledge across BI, analytics, and data platforms. As an independent analyst firm, we do not assess your requirements from the perspective of a single software or technology vendor.
Based on experience from more than 1,000 software selection projects, we connect business requirements, technical conditions, and the relevant software market. This enables finance and IT to decide together on architecture, software, and platforms.
Are you preparing a CPM software selection, reorganizing your system landscape, or clarifying the role of a data platform? In a first conversation, we identify the architecture questions that matter most. We then define the right scope for your workshop.
Robert brings together two things that rarely sit in the same person: hands-on experience in controlling and in implementing a wide range of CPM and BI products, plus a deep understanding of the market as an analyst. Before BARC, he worked as a Senior Consultant at Vector and MIS Group (now Infor) and in controlling at IG Immobilien. For more than 10 years he has advised companies across all industries on their CPM and BI decisions.
Timm Grosser is a Senior Analyst Data & Analytics at BARC with a focus on data strategy, data governance and data management. His core expertise is the definition and implementation of data & analytics strategy, organization, architecture and software selection.
He is a popular speaker at conferences and seminars and has authored numerous BARC studies and articles.
Please contact us via the contact form or contact Ricarda Stützel, +49 172 1544582.
We usually offer our workshops for a maximum of six participants.
Our workshops can be held at your premises or remotely.
Please note that we usually require a lead time of approximately three to six weeks. In individual cases, support services are also possible with a shorter lead time.
We usually offer workshops at all-inclusive prices and invoice them after they have taken place.
Our prices depend on various factors:
BARC supports both small and medium-sized enterprises and corporations across all industries. Here you can see a selection of the companies we have worked with.
Format: tailored to your starting situation and questions
remote or on-site
German / English
Interested? Request a quote now!
