Arcplan Welcomes MPS Partners to Channel Partner Community

Online, June 5, 2013 (Newswire.com) - International business intelligence software provider arcplan is pleased to announce that MPS Partners is its newest Channel Partner. MPS Partners' extensive SAP and Microsoft knowledge combined with arcplan's powerful BI platform will allow the two companies to deliver world-class dashboards, scorecards, and reporting solutions to SAP clients.

MPS Partners has worked with SAP customers for years, integrating disparate SAP solutions with the Microsoft platform. Its team often uses Microsoft SQL Server to improve the performance of SAP systems and delivers business intelligence through the SharePoint portal. A partnership with arcplan makes sense, as arcplan's core strength is the seamless integration of multiple data sources, including SAP BW, SAP BW-IP, SAP ECC (R/3) and Microsoft SQL Server. In fact, arcplan has been ranked as the most widely used BI frontend to SAP BW eight years in a row.

MPS Partners plans to sell and implement arcplan for SAP customers who need a simple yet successful business intelligence solution for easy-to-use dashboards, mobile BI, and self-service reporting.

MPS Partners and arcplan will offer SAP customers:

A BI solution that leverages the company's current infrastructure investments

Short deployment time - arcplan is the #1 Enterprise Reporting Vendor in Project Length according to the BI Survey 12

Integration with Microsoft Excel that offers secure, real-time data access and write-back

Excellent usability for all levels of decision makers

Deep and broad data integration, joining data from SAP and non-SAP sources into a single table, report or dashboard

"We believe arcplan will help our customers get more value from their SAP and Microsoft investments," said Bill Topel, Managing Partner of MPS Partners. "We want to offer them a BI platform with a low TCO, powerful SAP frontend, and cost effective implementation timeline."

John Kozlowski, Director of North American Alliances at arcplan, explained, "Reporting and analytics within an SAP environment can be cumbersome and costly. MPS Partners uniquely understands the needs of SAP customers, and recognized that organizations looking for a better way to get information of their systems come to arcplan. The partnership is a win for both sides - and a triumph for SAP customers."

About arcplan

arcplan is a leader in innovative Business Intelligence, Dashboard, Corporate Performance and Planning software solutions for desktop and mobile use. Since 1993, arcplan has enabled more than 3,200 customers worldwide to leverage their existing infrastructure for better decision making. Empowering all users to connect and collaborate with relevant information is crucial for improving business performance. With arcplan - it simply works.

arcplan's flagship product arcplan Enterprise® was rated the #1 3rd party tool for SAP BW, Oracle Essbase, and IBM Cognos TM1 in The BI Survey 12 (2012).

About MPS Partners

MPS Partners, a part of the SPR family of companies, is an award-winning provider of Microsoft professional services. Specializing in collaboration and integration projects, we help clients simplify the adoption, deployment and support of Microsoft platforms to maximize IT investments and deliver real value. Everything we do is based on the premise that IT projects should be simple and successful.

To learn more about how MPS Partners can help maximize your investments by simplifying the adoption, deployment and support of Microsoft platforms, please visit us online at www.mpspartners.com or call 312-756-1760.