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SAP Business Objects Planning and

ConsolidationEnterprise Performance

Management

StrategyManagement

Planning,Budgeting, and

Forecasting

Profitabilityand CostManagement

FinancialConsolidation

DisclosureManagement


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SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation 10.0

New EPM Add-in for Microsoft Office

Based upon:

y Reporting and analytics software in SAPBusinessObjects Financial Consolidation

and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and

Consolidation for Office

Provided with:

y SAP BusinessObjects Planning andConsolidation, as central interface

y Other EPM applications for Finance*, asoptional interface

Includes:

y Enhanced Excel, Word and PowerPointinterfaces for creating live, connectedreports 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 PortalsHarmonize

Harmonized Web User Interface

Common SAP Product Standards

BusinessObjects BI MS Office Workspace/ UI New EPM add-in for Microsoft Office

Harmonized Web User Interface / Common EPM Add-in

Enhanced integration with SAP

NetWeaver ,and EPM applications

viaFinancial Information Management

XBRL Publishing

Risk Management

Strategy Management

Process Control

ConnectNative SAP NetWeaver authentication

Support for SAP NetWeaver BW transport

framework

Planning and Consolidationversion for SAP NetWeaver Financial Consolidation

Intercompany

Profitability and

Cost ManagementExtended support for virtualization use in

Financial Information ManagementExtend

production environments*

Enhanced consolidation capabilities

Briefing books

SAP

NetWeaverBW

Business

Suite

Non-SAP sources

and platforms


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Version for SAP NetWeaver*Details can be found here: htt ps : // s e rv ic e .s ap.c o m/sap/sup p ort/ n otes/1 098847
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HarmonizePlatform 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 Requires SAP NetWeaver 7.3**

y Any operating system supported by SAP NetWeaver 7.3

y ABAP Web Application Server

y VMware for productive usage*** (new)

y Any database supported by SAP NetWeaver 7.3Server Installation Language Support:

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

(new!), Italian (new!), Portuguese (new!)


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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


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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


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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 asa 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 scriptare executed

Pretty printercan 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 Scope creation and maintenance

y Journals data entry

y Controls monitoring*

y Consolidation monitoring*

* Currently available in BPC NW version only


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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 andPercentages based upon ownership data

entry

*The former Dynamic Hierarchy Editor has been renamed Ownership

Manager


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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 newhome 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 EntityCurrency

BADI available to support calculation and

posting of automatically calculated amounts

*Current View replaces the former Page Members


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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 forselected entities

y View detailed expression of aselected control

y Run controls, Dismiss or resetcontrols (requires specific access

rights to the corresponding task)

y Directly access linked documents


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Consolidation Central Consolidation Monitor

Better tracking with new web-based consolidation monitor

Track information for a given group, sub-

group or entity :

y Control set status

y Work status

y Currency conversion status

y 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 ConsolidationClients

10.0

SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Clients

Admin

(Thick)

MicrosoftOffice

Clients

Web(Thin)

Others Admin(Thin)

MicrosoftOfficeClients

Web

(Thin)Others

HTTP/SOAP

Web Server (IIS) & .NET Application Server

Web Services

Conversion and Application Services

RFC Calls

SAP N et W eav er B W (App licat io n S erv er)

HTTP/REST

SAP NetWeaver BW (Application Server)

Rest Web Services

Application Logic MDXSAPNetWeaver

BW OLAP EngineApplication Logic MDX

SAPNetWeaver

BW OLAP Engine

DatabaseRelational Database (any

that SAP NetWeaver

supports)

SQL

In memory (optional)

SAP NetWeaverBWA

DatabaseRelational Database (any

that SAP NetWeaver

supports)

SQL

In memory (optional)

SAP NetWeaverBWA


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Version for the Microsoft Platform


Harmonize

Harmonized Web User Interface

Common SAP Product Standards

New EPM add-in for Microsoft Office

Connect

Extend

Full support for Microsoft Office 2010 and

embedded portal scenarios

Enhanced integration with EPM

applications and source systems via

Financial Information Management

Extended support for VMware use in

production environments*

Full Unicode and 64 bit support

Automated variance analysis

Enhanced consolidation capabilities

Performance enhancements

InfoView / SAP Portal / Browsers / Enterprise Portals

BusinessObjects BI MS Office Workspace/ UI

Harmonized Web User Interface / Common EPM Add-in

XBRL Publishing Strategy Management

Planning and Consolidation,version for the Microsoft

platform

Intercompany

Financial Consolidation

Profitability andCost Management

Financial Information Management

SAP

NetWeaver

BW

Business

Suite

Non-SAP sourcesand platforms

Details can be found here: htt ps : // s e rvice .s ap.c o m / s ap/suppo rt/note s / 109 8 847
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HarmonizePlatform 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 Windows Server 2008 and 2008 Release 2

y IIS 6.0 and 7.0 Web Servers

y VMware for productive usage* (new!)

y 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 inFrench, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese (new!), Russian (new!), Spanish

(new!), Italian (new!), Portuguese (new!)


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Architecture7.x vs 10.0

y .NET 3.5/VB components

y 32 bit process

y Multiple Processes running on BPCserver

y Use com+ service impersonation

y Configurable with Com+ options (

Pool

size, impersonation )

y .NET 3.5 components only

y Pure 64 bit process

y Single process/No com+ servicey Use .NET impersonation

y Configurable with Web.config( MaxConcurrentSessions )

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Change in meta data retrievalIntroducing Global Cache

7.x

ClientAppservers

Database server

Bottleneck

10.0 Client

App servers Database server

Master data cache

(In Memory )


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Improvements in Performance

Processing dimensions Large dimensions with more than a million members and multiple

hierarchies can be processed in reasonable time

Work Status Checking work status in sending or importing a large amount of data is faster

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

All this is made possible with

64 bit process

applying parallel cube process

leveraging SQL 2008 features redesigning of tables

use of global cache,


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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


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Select AVA features

Status indicator Look up top contributors to a variance

y Show the desired amount of top contributorsto KPI

Find hidden under/over performers

y Show underperformed child members if aparent member overperforms

y Show overperformed child members if aparent member underperforms


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