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First Experiences with

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (10.1) on HANA

Deutsche Telekom Harald Sonntag

Business Planning and Consolidation on HANA 10.1

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Road to HANA (BPC 10.1).

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current Situation

Motivation and Use Case

Technology

Experiences

Expectations and Outlook

Deutsche Telekom – Profil.

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Deutsche Telekom: Structure and Markets.

>140 Mio. Mobile-Customers in Germany, Europe & US

2,8 Mio. (IP)TV-Customers

4,6 Mio. Broadband Customers

61 Mio. Mobile Cutomers

Europe (ex. Germany): Presence in 13 Countries

Deutsche Telekom

Germany Europe T-Systems US

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Road to HANA (BPC 10.1).

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current Situation

Current situation – todays landscape

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Data Entry Consolidation Planning and Reporting

Portal

data entry

MIS ALEA

Group Planning

IKOS BW/BPC

Group Reporting

BW (BEX) BPC 7.5

EC-CS

Consolidation MIP

internal Reporting

Company Report

Segment Reports

external Reporting

Rounding

Cash Flow

Treasury Reports

Current situation – todays landscape

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Data Entry Consolidation Planning and Reporting

Portal

data entry

MIS ALEA

Group Planning

IKOS BW/BPC

Group Reporting

BW (BEX) BPC 7.5

EC-CS

Consolidation MIP

internal Reporting

Company Report

Segment Reports

external Reporting

Rounding

Cash Flow

Treasury Reports

Disadvantages/Weakness: • big-data challenges

•BW-functionalities can’t be used in BPC 7.5

•Own datacubes for BW and BPC 7.5 necessary

•Double Masterdata-, User-Management in BW and BPC 7.5

•Datatransfers between BPC 7.5 and BW causes delays

Road to HANA (BPC 10.1)

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Motivation and Use Case

Technology

Motivation and Requirements

High user acceptance and integration of all financial

processes

Target

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BPC 10.1

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Enterprise financial reporting from consolidation to quarterly and annual report

more functions for “LoB-Users” like changes of calculations sheets themself

Representation of unadjusted and adjusted figures at all group levels (special factors, Managmt.-corrections)

Rounding of all financial dimensions in million

Calculation of KPIs (e.g. EVA/ROCE)

High formated reporting as well as ad-hoc analysis with Excel (EPM-Client)

Restore of high-level adjustments via planning-functions

Uniform datamodel and processing of financial figures

Outlook: processing of Segment- and Group-Forecast as well as Segment- and Group-Planing

Use Case

30.06.2014

Motivation – Use Case

Decision for HANA-based BPC 10.1 with EPM-Client

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Data Entry and Consolidation Planning and Reporting

SAP FC

Data Entry, Validation, Comments, Consolidation Group Planning and Reporting

Company Reports Segment Reports

Technologie – future IT-Landscape

uniform HANA Platform

ERP

Legal

Manage- ment

Budget

Forecast

Special Factors

longterm planning

BW/BPC 10.1

internal Reporting

MIP

EPM Reporting Client

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Datamodel in BPC – Dimensions

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Group Planning – statements and facts/figures

Forecast (quarterly)

Mid-term planning (yearly)

10 Year planning (yearly)

aggregate Entity-Structur

Planning: 50 Entities (Legal 280 Entities)

monthly Group-Hierarchy changes

full package scope (Balance sheet , IS, KPIs)

in 30 countries

with 300 Users

120 Planning- and reporting sheets

facts and figures planning

Budget (yearly)

Projekt New.BPC 10.1

Realisation

Backend

Datamodel

ETL-Processes

Funcionalities

Interfaces

Frontend

Reports

Functionalities

Trainigs

Start Parallel Closing

Parallel Closings

Go Live

J F M A M J J A S O N D J F 2014 2015

Project BPC 10.1 embedded: project schedule

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Milestones SAP FC

Parallel Closinga

Go Live Budget

Go Live Legal

Road to HANA (BPC 10.1).

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Experiences

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Data Entry and Consolidation Planning and Reporting

SAP FC

Data Entry, Validation, Comments, Consolidation Group Planning and Reporting

Company Reports Segment Reports

Technologie – Experiences

uniform HANA (in memory) Platform

ERP

Legal

Manage- ment

Budget

Forecast

Special Factors

longterm planning

BW/IP/BPC 10.1

internal Reporting

MIP

EPM Reporting Client Improvements:

• Integration of Group Planning and Group Reporting possible

•KPI-Calculation (EVA/ROCE)

•BW-functionalities can be used

•Connection of two Reporting-Systems in one BPC-Report via EPM-Client

Experiences and Improvements so far (parallel closings)

SAP Support in the Rampup-Phase

high SAP attention in the Rampup (response- and resolution time)

influence on upcoming developments of BPC

useful BW- and Reporting-Functionalities within EPM-Client

creation of individual stylesheets and formating features (Excel)

e.g. time dependent hierarchies

significant Reduction of Procedure and Report Runtime

Procedure of Rounding is reduced from 2 hours runtime to 20 minutes

runtime of reports could be reduced

Reduction of Maintemance-Costs by using one Data-Cube

integrated masterdata and Usermanagement

no datatransfers between various Cubes necessary

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high User A

cceptance

Road to HANA (BPC 10.1).

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Expectations and Outlook

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Expectations mid term

Outlook

After Finalizing the Rampup-Phase the realisation of all findings and commitments

user-friendly functionalities for Business Users, e.g. the possibility to change masterdata or calculation sheets itself

Consolidation- and distribution functions for financial planning

user administration in BPC

Implement of the group planning in BPC 10.1

Integration HANA-BPC with HANA-based FC

Aug. Dec. 2015

Expectations and Outlook

Target: An integrated and uniform Group planning and Group Reporting

Expectations short term

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Speaker

Harald Sonntag

Consolidation Factory & Group Reporting

Deutsche Telekom Accounting GmbH

harald.sonntag@telekom.de

Executive Summary

Major benefits of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1,

version for SAP NetWeaver, powered by SAP HANA are:

Enhanced Scalability & Performance for faster decision making

Optimization of planning functions leveraging SAP HANA

Access to larger volumes of data at a quicker rate

Increased Usability for Business and IT

New HTML5 Web Client for smoother navigation and mobile readiness

Ability to leverage embedded models for business planning

Introduction of new administration functions

Further Integration to decrease SAP TCO

tighter integration with SAP Business Warehouse to maximize investment

Real Time access to enterprise data and masterdata

Now general

available (GA)