SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platformDetailed Solution Slides

Detailed solution slides – For End Users

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At a glance status of all standard processes with business process flows

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Anticipate the future with dynamic forecasting

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Business process flows ensure consistency and minimize training

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Consistency for the annual budget process

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Consistency for the annual budget process

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for Excel

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Dynamic report templates aid productivity

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Increased confidence in statutory and management reporting

Meets all statutory, regulatory and financial reporting requirements

GAAP

IFRS

IAS

FASB

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Powerful drill-down capabilities to aid decision making

Drill down the hierarchy of application/slice of InfoCube

Formulas preserved as users drill down

Allows for summary and detail view

Same report/input schedules can be surfaced to different levels in organization

Allows drilldown to transaction details

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Drilldown – drill from summary to detail

Chartsexpanded

Chartsexpanded

FormulaspreservedFormulaspreserved

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Drill taskDrill task

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Drill down to products

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Drill down to billing details

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Comprehensive planning functions help reduce the planning cycle

Actionable functions Facilitates actions such as drill through

to other reports or views

Expansion functions Allows dynamic expansion of data

Text functions Returns text strings for display

Value functions To send values to or receive values from databases

Modeling functions

Spread – spreads a value evenly or based on weights

Trend – takes a value and grows the same by a factor

Weight – allocates amounts by weighted factors

Data management functions Copy – copies data from source to

destination Clear – clears data in the cube Move – moves data from source to

destination Custom – can create custom function,

e.g., top-down allocation

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Built-in financial intelligence to aid productivity

Accounts, rate, currency dimensions to support financial intelligence

Multi-currency support and FX translations

Financial reporting applications

Powerful properties that enable financial intelligence

Account types – expense, income, asset, liabilities, or equity

Scaling options for amounts

Different exchange rate types for different accounts

FINSTMT for distinguishing income statement vs. Balance sheet

Currency for entity type dimension

Sub-table dimensions for tracking opening, addition, deletions, transfers, and closing balances especially for asset/liability accounts

Pre-defined ratio analysis functions built as rules

Profitability analysis, liquidity analysis, activity and efficiency analysis, capital structure analysis ratios

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Publishing and distribution to aid communication

Supports books of reports using book templates

Distributes input schedules to defined set of users

Distributes schedules and collection of data in offline mode

Enables offline planning

Manages distribution lists through distribution templates

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Predefined planning business process flows aid productivity

Strategic planning

Budgeting Multi-currency budgeting processes Sales and revenue planning Capital expenditure planning Workforce planning Expense budgeting Line item details Budgeted financial statement reports

Forecasting

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Business process flows ensure consistency and minimize training

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Forecast scheduleDynamically anticipate the future

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Forecast scheduleSpread data

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Forecast scheduleRefresh

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Back-to-business process flow

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Report version comparison

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Publish

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Variance analysis from PowerPoint

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Appendix

Detailed solution slides – For Administrators

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Business User Owned And Managed

Easy administration Explorer view of

administration environment

Context sensitive Action Pane

Familiar concept of “Save As”

Embedded Excel

Wizard-driven interfaces

Extensible security administration

Guided, flexible environment for authoring schedules

Easy troubleshooting

Automated audit trail

Robust data manager

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Context sensitive action pane

For dimensionsFor dimensions

For applicationsFor applications

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Embedded Excel administration

Members and property definition is made easy through Excelinterface/picking up from library

Users can copy/paste from Excel spreadsheets or manually enter information

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Wizard-driven interfaces

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Extensible security and administration

Leverage Microsoft Windows user accounts

Ability to assign teams

Task profiles can be created and mapped to teams

Security can be assigned at different levels from application set to member level

Wizard-driven security administration

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Guided task interface

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Easy troubleshooting

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Automated audit trail

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Robust data manager

Data manager packages defined and scheduled

Task pane facilitates actions to manage data

Easy loading of flat files

Intuitive error logging and troubleshooting

Powerful ETL capabilities to load data from multiple sources

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Data transformations

Allow you to map external data to internal SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation data structures

Are performed by setting up at least two Excel files: Transformation file Conversion file

Specify which package to run, and which transformation and conversion files define your data transformations

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Transformation files

Allow application administrators to set up rules for reading data from an external source and putting it in the proper form for your SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation system

Are Excel files that contain one worksheet named Instructions

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The source file for a data import can be a text file containing delimited strings Each field represents the name of a dimension member

The source file can be in either of two formats: Fixed - allows a first row defining the name and position of all dimensions

Variable - allows the user to define the name and position of the dimensions using multiple lines beginning with an asterisk (*)

ASCII import file formats

Fixed

Variable

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Conversion files

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Define the mapping from external to internal member names

Provide the ability to perform arithmetic and rounding on data

Can contain one or more worksheets for different types of data transformations

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