Sap BPC Life Cycle
Sap BPC Life Cycle
Sap BPC Life Cycle
A smart overview through the history and the functionalities of SAP BPC tools
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Story Board
SAP BPC 7.0, version for the
Microsoft platform
Focus on
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Architecture
Focus on
Complex Architecture
High maintenance costs
BPC 7.5 NW Utilizes MDX Query
BPC 7.5 NW Components Did Not Run
Completely on 64-Bit Technology Thus
Limiting Performance
End of maintenance 31.12.2017
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Tier
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In-place upgrade
Complex
Disrupted
High Risk
Migrating
Limited Disruption
Limited Risk
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Architecture
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Architecture
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Tier
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7.5 NW
10.0 NW
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Create a tab-delimeted mapping file for use by migration program to map old user to new users
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Version Differences
BPC 7.5 NW Utilizes MDX Query Which is Less Efficient Than the BEx
Query Method Used by BPC 10 NW
BPC 7.5 Only Allows for a Single Write Back After All Calculations
Have Been Evaluated Resulting in Slower Performance of Script Logic
Packages (ie Loading Finance Application Data to the Consolidation
Application, Allocations)
BPC 7.5 NW Requires the Microsoft ASP .NET Technology Which
Requires Special Knowledge and Increases System Maintenance
BPC 7.5 NW Components Did Not Run Completely on 64-Bit
Technology Thus Limiting Performance
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Version Differences
BPC 7.5 NW Uses EVDRE() to Generate Reports Which Requires
More Training Than the Intuitive Reporting Options with BPC 10
BPC10 is Capable of Automatically Detecting Dimension Members
Entered Directly in Worksheet
BPC 10 Dynamic Formatting Sheets Can Be Shared With Other
Workbooks/Reports
Unlike BPC 7.5 NW, Comments in BPC 10 Can Be Copied Via a
Standard Data Manager Package
Local Members in BPC 10 Allow Users to Create Formulas That Can
Be Automatically Detected and Become Part of the Report
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Version Differences
BPC 10 NW Utilizes a Web Based Administration Client
BPC 7.5 NW Only Allows for a All-Or-None Standard Functionality for
BW Transports of Application/Models Developed in DEV and Tested in
QAS, BPC 10 NW Allows for Granular Transport
BPC 7.5 NW Does Not Have a Cube Name Stabilization Feature to
Prevent the Cube Name From Changing When Running Full
Optimization
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Version Differences
BPC 7.5 NW Effectively Only Allows for Full Data Loads, Which Increases
Cube Size and Decreases System Performance
Delta Loads Can Be Executed in BPC 10 NW
Utilizing a Hybrid Provider, BPC 10 NW Allows for Real-Time Data From
SAP ERP
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Version Differences
Enhanced user interface and functionality in BPC 10 NWs Business
Process Flow increases user adoption and reviewer/owner visibility
BPC 7.5 NWs Park and Go has been replaced with BPC 10s Offline
feature, which is not prone to worksheet errors common in BPC 7.5 NW
BPC 10 NWs Book Publishing feature is fully functional with a more
user friendly interface
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Web Client
The New Web Client has the following Components:
Start Page: Describes the initial Planning and Consolidation web client page. From this page, you can select
from your objects, create reports and launch client applications.
Activities: Provides information about using Business Process Flows (Processes).
Library: Provides information about how to access the objects that are saved in the Library view.
Documents: Provides information about using the Documents view to post, and retrieve files, and to manage
content display
Audit: Provides information about reporting on system information and activity.
Consolidation Central: Helps to generate and manage consolidated data.
Consolidation Monitor: Generate and monitor consolidated data from data reported by Group and Entity members
Control Monitor: Execute and monitor controls used to validate the reported data
Journals: Create and manage journal entries containing adjustments and eliminations used for correcting reported data
Ownership Manager: Create and Manage ownership-based hierarchies used for performing statutory consolidations
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Consolidation Central
Consolidation Monitor
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Consolidation Central
The Controls Monitor is a workspace for executing and monitoring controls.
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Consolidation Central
Journals
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Consolidation Central
Ownership Manager is used to define an ownership-based hierarchy entity structure. It
allows you to create periodic-specific hierarchies of corporate entities to use in statutory
consolidation, or in cases where hierarchy changes for an application need to be tracked by
Category and Time.
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Dimension
All the properties and settings of a Dimension are managed in the Structure view.
This page allows you to add a dimension property or add the required properties for Consolidation or for
Ownership model
You can also add the hierarchies to the dimensions
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Dimension
The members are managed in an Excel like grid and you can copy and paste (within the list and from
Excel), sorting, filtering, and ordering column, and so on.
The maximum length of a Member ID can be 32 characters and can accept dash and underscores but
cannot accept any other special characters.
Member status is displayed in the row headers of the list of all members that have been edited or
changed or added. A icon enables to identify the status of the edited members and a tooltip provides the
details of the errors.
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Model
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Security
On the front end side there is no change in the BPC 10 security except that the BPC users are NetWeaver
users instead of Active Directory users.
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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Script Logic
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
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Work Status
The work status feature facilitates better information management and approval process by associating
configurable and customizable wok status to the combination or intersection of data. The work status feature
allows seamless communication and tracking of the work status during the data collection phase. The work
status also prevents the unwanted data changes (locking) once the data entry is finalized based on the work
status. This eliminates the need for a complex security model to lock the data once the data is finalized.
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Audit
Activating this features, you enable log registration on data. The system save the user activities.
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EPM Add-in
Multiple connections can co-exists in a single worksheet
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New ribbon with set of action buttons for creating reports, managing and formatting reports,
action button for save and refresh data, action button for performing planning function, action
button for publishing workbooks
Context bar provides a user friendly way of selecting members
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Report Editor facilitates wizard based creation of report with simple drag and drop dimension
EPM Window facilitates users to create quick reports by dropping the dimension to the
respective window
Direct Member Entry: User can directly enter the member into Excel grid. SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation automatically recognizes the members
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Architecture
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Tier
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7.5 NW
10.0 NW
10.1 NW
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Create a tab-delimeted mapping file for use by migration program to map old user to new users
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For BPC NW standard (orange components), the BPC add-on is required, which contains the specific planning and reporting
logic of BPC and collaboration features. It sits on SAP BW, but only uses its reporting and some of its data management
capabilities. The add-on also provides connectivity to the EPM EXCEL add-in. An additional add-on is available to make use of
HANA for specific functions and acceleration purposes.
These add-ons are not required for the BPC NW embedded model. It rather fully uses the reporting and planning capabilities of
BW as well as its data warehousing and data management. The collaboration-capabilities were adjusted to this architecture and
moved into SAP BW (grey component). The BPC HTML5 web-client has also moved to SAP BW and connects to both, the
standard and the embedded models for modelling and runtime. In addition a new interface is contained in SAP BW to connect
to the EPM add-in, in addition to the existing connections to Analysis Office and Design Studio. Finally SAP HANA is mandatory
for the BPC embedded model to facilitate best performance on highly flexible data models.
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BPC standard
BPC embedded
Name space
All BW name space (no transfer dato from BW name space to /CPMB objects)
Representation of dimensions
Characteristics
pure generic, except
13 time characteristics (calendar, fiscal)
currency/unit characteristics
compounded
Representation of values
Infoproviders
Data protection
Data Slices, BPC Work Status (mapped to technical data slices at run time)
EPM Add-in
User Interface
EPM Add-in (via Bex Query), Analysis for MS Office , Bex and Web
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Features
BW-IP
BPC
BW Data Model
Bex Planning Functionality
Fox Formula Calculation
PAK HANA based Functions
EPM Add-In
HTML 5 Admin Client
HTML 5 Web Based Planning
BPF
Audit
Work Status
BW Data Model
Bex Planning Functionality
Fox Formula Calculation
PAK HANA based Functions
EPM Add-In
HTML 5 Admin Client
HTML 5 Web Based Planning
BPF
Audit
Work Status
The approach they seem to have taken is to merge the IP back-end with some of the SAP BPC front-end functionality.
For example:
The underlying SAP BW cubes are modelled like IP cubes, using BW infoobjects, rather than BPC dimensions
Planning functions are still developed using the IP functionality
The EPM Add-In is the front end for interacting with the unified planning model
The BPC 10.1 web front end is the web portal for interacting with the unified planning model
Certain BPC 10.1 features, such as BPFs, work status and data auditing are available.
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What is PAK?
The Planning Application KIT allows for planning functions to run within HANA.
PAK functions running directly on HANA:
Copy
Repost
Revaluation
Delete
Delete Invalid Combinations
Set Key Figure Values
Distribution by Reference Data
Generate Combinations
Repost on Basis of Characteristic Relationships
Distribution With Keys
Formula (FOX) With restrictions
Disaggregation within the Query
*Note 1637199 Contains full details
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Bibliography
SAP BPC 7.5 NW
SAP BPC 10.0 NW
SAP BPC 10.1 NW
Product Availability Matrix (PAM)
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Best Regards
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