SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation

Enterprise Performance Management

Strategy Management Profitability and Cost Management Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Financial Consolidation

Disclosure Management

SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 New EPM Add-in for Microsoft Office
Based upon:
y Reporting and analytics software in SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for Office

Provided with:
y SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, as central interface y Other EPM applications for Finance*, as optional interface

Includes:
y Enhanced Excel, Word and PowerPoint interfaces for creating live, connected reports from scratch and copying/pasting existing reports between Word, Excel and PowerPoint
* SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management; SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management; SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0, Version for SAP NetWeaver
InfoView / SAP Portal / Browsers / Enterprise Portals BusinessObjects BI MS Office Workspace/ UI

Harmonized Web User Interface

Harmonize

Common SAP Product Standards New EPM add-in for Microsoft Office Enhanced integration with SAP NetWeaver ,and EPM applications via Financial Information Management Native SAP NetWeaver authentication Support for SAP NetWeaver BW transport framework

Harmonized Web User Interface / Common EPM Addin

XBRL Publishing Risk Management Planning and Consolidation version for SAP NetWeaver Intercompany

Strategy Management Process Control

Connect

Financial Consolidation Profitability and Cost Management

Financial Information Management

Extend

Extended support for virtualization use in production environments* Enhanced consolidation capabilities Briefing books

SAP NetWeaver BW

Business Suite

Non-SAP sources and platforms

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0, Version for SAP NetWeaver
*Details can be found here: https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1098847

Harmonize
Platform Support
Broader platform choice open and heterogeneous Full 64 bit support of all server components (new!) Client Support:
y Windows Vista Client (32 and 64-bit), Windows XP (32-bit) and 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) y Internet Explorer 7 and 8 y Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 - 32-bit and 64-bit* (new)

Server Support:
y y y y y Requires SAP NetWeaver 7.3** Any operating system supported by SAP NetWeaver 7.3 ABAP Web Application Server VMware for productive usage*** (new) Any database supported by SAP NetWeaver 7.3

Server Installation Language Support:

y Install SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation on non-English OS servers in French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese (new!), Russian (new!), Spanish (new!), Italian (new!), Portuguese (new!)

Integrated Security With SAP NetWeaver Backend

Security settings are more transparent with SAP NetWeaver backend system Dynamically synchronization of security settings with the SAP NetWeaver backend for SAP NetWeaver roles and profiles

Enhanced Hierarchy Management

Administration users can now graphically edit hierarchies to more efficiently maintain their systems Advanced Editing features such as drag and drop and or move up and move down are supported

Enhanced Model Maintenance

Models are even easier to create using the new wizards that have been provided Structure and properties of the model can be managed in a single page New models can be created either from scratch or by using an existing model as a source.

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Enhanced Logic Script Editor

Creating scripts is more efficient based on updates to the script logic editor Logic script functions and MDX keywords are available for selection in the new editor, with the required syntax automatically suggested Adding/Removing Comments can be used to determine what portions of a script are executed Pretty printer can be used to enhance readability

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 NW Consolidation Central

New web interface for performing consolidation tasks over the web Perform day to day consolidation tasks over the web using new Consolidation Central interface:
y y y y Scope creation and maintenance Journals data entry Controls monitoring* Consolidation monitoring*

* Currently available in BPC NW version only

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 NW Consolidation Central Ownership Manager
Faster and easier creation of scopes using new Ownership Manager Utilize contextual menu (when editing a scope) and copy/cut/paste of data using Excel-like functions or right click of the mouse Automate the calculation of Methods and Percentages based upon ownership data entry

*The former Dynamic Hierarchy Editor has been renamed Ownership Manager
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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 NW Consolidation Central Journals

Increased flexibility with new web interface for Journals Save time and reduce errors with new web interface for Journals which includes an automatic calculation of totals and live syntax check, easier posting of multiple journal entries, and new filtering capabilities
y Quickly access relevant content with new home page that displays list of journals filtered according to the current view* with access to all relevant actions y Utilize new options per journal:
Balanced by Entity, balanced by Entity Currency BADI available to support calculation and posting of automatically calculated amounts
*Current View replaces the former Page Members

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 NW Consolidation Central Controls Monitoring
Improved visibility with new Controls Monitoring interface Gain complete visibility of control statuses for entities you are responsible for
y View details of controls for a selected entity

Launch control calculations for selected entities

y View detailed expression of a selected control y Run controls, Dismiss or reset controls (requires specific access rights to the corresponding task) y Directly access linked documents

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 NW Consolidation Central Consolidation Monitor
Better tracking with new web-based consolidation monitor Track information for a given group, subgroup or entity :
y y y y Control set status Work status Currency conversion status Consolidation status

Run select tasks directly from the Consolidation Monitor:

y Run translation y Run consolidation y View running processes

Improve performance and save time with incremental currency conversion and consolidation

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Simplified Web Architecture for SAP NetWeaver Release

The .NET tier has been removed from the architecture making this more consistent with SAP NetWeaver releases, which will lower maintenance costs 7.5
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Clients
Admin (Thick) Microsoft Office Clients
HTTP/SOAP

10.0
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Clients
Admin (Thin) Microsoft Office Clients Web (Thin) Web (Thin)

Others

Others

Web Server (IIS) & .NET Application Server

Web Services Conversion and Application Services
HTTP/REST

SAP NetWeaver BW (Application Server)

RFC Calls

Rest Web Services

SAP NetWeaver BW (Application Server)

Application Logic
MDX

SAP NetWeaver BW OLAP Engine

Application Logic

MDX

SAP NetWeaver BW OLAP Engine

SQL

SQL

Database
Relational Database (any that SAP NetWeaver supports)

In memory (optional)
SAP NetWeaver BWA

Database
Relational Database (any that SAP NetWeaver supports)

In memory (optional)
SAP NetWeaver BWA

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0, Version for the Microsoft Platform
InfoView / SAP Portal / Browsers / Enterprise Portals BusinessObjects BI MS Office Workspace/ UI

Harmonized Web User Interface

Harmonize

Common SAP Product Standards New EPM add-in for Microsoft Office Full support for Microsoft Office 2010 and embedded portal scenarios

Harmonized Web User Interface / Common EPM Add-in

Connect

XBRL Publishing Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform Intercompany

Strategy Management

Enhanced integration with EPM applications and source systems via Financial Information Management

Financial Consolidation Profitability and Cost Management

Extended support for VMware use in production environments*

Financial Information Management

Extend

Full Unicode and 64 bit support Automated variance analysis Enhanced consolidation capabilities

SAP NetWeaver BW

Performance enhancements
Business Suite Non-SAP sources and platforms

Details can be found here: https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1098847

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Harmonize
Platform Support
Broader platform choice open and heterogeneous Full 64 bit support of all server components (new!) Client Support:
y Windows Vista Client (32 and 64-bit), XP (32-bit) and 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) y Internet Explorer 7 and 8 y Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 - 32-bit and 64-bit** (new!)

Server Support:
y y y y Windows Server 2008 and 2008 Release 2 IIS 6.0 and 7.0 Web Servers VMware for productive usage* (new!) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition and SQL Server 2008 Release 2 Enterprise Edition (new!)

Server Installation Language Support:

y Install SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation on non-English OS servers in French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese (new!), Russian (new!), Spanish (new!), Italian (new!), Portuguese (new!)

Architecture
7.x vs 10.0

y .NET 3.5/VB components y 32 bit process y Multiple Processes running on BPC server y Use com+ service impersonation y Configurable with Com+ options ( Pool size, impersonation )

y y y y y

.NET 3.5 components only Pure 64 bit process Single process/No com+ service Use .NET impersonation Configurable with Web.config ( MaxConcurrentSessions )
y http://www.aspnet101.com/2010/08/wcfperformancebest-practices/

Change in meta data retrieval

Introducing Global Cache

7. x

Client

App servers

Database server

Bottleneck

10. 0

Client

App servers

Database server

Master data cache (In Memory )

Improvements in Performance

Processing dimensions

Large dimensions with more than a million members and multiple hierarchies can be processed in reasonable time Checking work status in sending or importing a large amount of data is faster

Work Status

Data Manager
Can support importing more than even more than 5 million records at one time

All this is made possible with 64 bit process applying parallel cube process leveraging SQL 2008 features redesigning of tables use of global cache,

Advanced Variance analysis (AVA)

Can be either along the Time or Category type dimensions Examples:
y Variance = Target Actual y Variance = Actual Budget y Variance = Current Month Same Month Last Year

Replaces the Insight functionality in 7.x

y With AVA, you can
Create your own KPI Define own status indicators for each KPI Analyze the contributors to the variance Find hidden under/over performing child members Perform ad-hoc analysis See the status in a dashboard

Select AVA features

Status indicator Look up top contributors to a variance
y Show the desired amount of top contributors to KPI

Find hidden under/over performers

y Show underperformed child members if a parent member overperforms y Show overperformed child members if a parent member underperforms

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