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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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Thank you!