SAP BPC & EPM Roadmap

Current state of SAP Business Planning

and Consolidation 10 including the
roadmap for NW, MS, and HANA

Pras Chatterjee,
Director of Product Marketing, Enterprise Performance Management,
SAP Canada

Whats New in SAP Business Planning and

Consolidation 10.0
Pras Chatterjee, Director Product Marketing
May 2013

Expert Information Session

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Analytics Solutions from SAP

Mobile

Predictive

Analytics
solutions from
SAP
Collaboration

Cloud

Enterprise information
management

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Release 10.0 of SAP solutions for EPM

Unified

Comprehensive

Common interfaces for the user

experience leads to quicker adoption
and improved productivity.

Prepackaged best practicebased

solutions for specific industries and
lines of business deliver faster time to
value with better results.

Deeper integration with the SAP

NetWeaver technology platform, the
SAP ERP application, and analytics
applications improves manageability
and reduces the total cost of
ownership.

The comprehensive set of EPM

solutions includes disclosure
management functions that accelerate
the last mile of finance.

Transformational

Mobile performance management

increases productivity and helps
organizations become more agile,
responsive, and better equipped to
succeed.
Applications powered by SAP HANA
software provide instant insight and
allow users to plan at levels of detail
that were never possible before.

Solution today
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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for

SAP NetWeaver powered by SAP HANA
A new era of enterprise planning

Better planning and

analysis

Better performance

Better engagement

Plan better and act faster

with instant insight into all
relevant data and real-time
planning capabilities

Accelerate planning and

consolidation processing
leveraging the power of inmemory technology

Simplify the input and

exploration of data for all
business users with nextgeneration user interfaces

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Roadmap

Understanding the different releases of

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
Planned
dates

Version for
SAP NetWeaver

Version for the

Microsoft platform

2007

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is available as two

distinct (separately priced) applications a version for SAP
NetWeaver and a version for the Microsoft platform.

Release 5.1

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 5.1, version for the

Microsoft platform, runs on the Microsoft platform.
SAP is pursuing a dual-release product strategy:
Release 7.0

Release 7.5

2012

Release 7.0

Release 7.5

Release 10.0

Release 10.0

Generally available

Generally available

1. SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.0, version for the

Microsoft platform, succeeds the 5.1 release
2. SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.0, version for SAP
NetWeaver, is a new product running on the SAP NetWeaver
platform (it is not a successor to the 5.1 release)

Release 10.0 of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version

for SAP NetWeaver and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation,
version for the Microsoft Platform are currently in mass shipment
(generally available).
SAP continues to invest in both versions.

Solution today
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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for the

Microsoft platform
Scope

Key benefits

Enhanced reporting functionality,

performance, and usability with the
EPM add-in for Microsoft Office

Increased reporting functionality

and productivity

Support for an expanded Microsoft

platform (Windows 8, Internet
Explorer 10.0, Microsoft Office
2013)

SAP EPM Unwired mobile access

New strategic financial planning
rapid-deployment solution

New and enhanced starter kits and
rapid-deployment solutions for
financial close and disclosure
management (IFRS) and mobile BI
for financial close

Better performance and scalability

by leveraging the latest Microsoft
technologies

Broader adoption and increased
engagement by leveraging mobile
devices

Reduced implementation time and
simplified compliance with IFRS by
using preconfigured content

Planned innovations
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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for

SAP NetWeaver
Scope

Key benefits

Allocations and dimension member

calculations optimized for SAP HANA
and enhanced top-down planning

Availability to be hosted with SAP
HANA

Planning applications kit capabilities
introduced into SAP Business Planning
and Consolidation powered by SAP
HANA for planning directly on existing
data warehouse InfoObjects used with
SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP EPM Unwired mobile app

New HTML 5 Web user interface

Enhanced reporting support with the
EPM add-in for Microsoft Office

Reporting support for the analyzer and
reporting tools (BEx Analyzer) of SAP
Business Explorer (SAP BEx)

Equity pickup audit report

New strategic financial planning rapiddeployment solution

New and enhanced starter kits and
rapid-deployment solutions for financial
close and disclosure management (US
GAAP/ IFRS) and mobile BI for financial
close

Reduced planning and consolidation

cycle times

Faster deployment of highperformance planning and
consolidation solution

Elimination of data redundancies and
reduced integration effort with SAP
NetWeaver BW

Broader adoption and increased
engagement by leveraging mobile
devices

Improved ease of use and
accessibility

Added reporting functions and
increased productivity

Improved insight into current and
historical views of data

Reduced implementation time and
simplified compliance with IFRS and
US GAAP thanks to preconfigured
content

Planned innovations
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Additional Detail Regarding

Selected Roadmap
Innovations

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for

SAP NetWeaver powered by SAP HANA
Planned
Performance, scalability, integration, and
usability:

Support for SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, and
planning applications kit models

Best-in-class flexibility and integration with
InfoObjects used with SAP NetWeaver BW

Powered by SAP HANA for maximum planning
performance and scalability

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation,

version for SAP NetWeaver, powered by SAP
HANA
EPM add-in for Microsoft Office,
Web, and mobile interfaces
SAP NetWeaver (server)
1

Corporate
Financial
Plan

Single planning solution on SAP

NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA:

De-central
operational
Plan

Use of EPM add-in for Microsoft Office Excel client

across both models

Single HTML5 Web user interface

SAP NetWeaver BW
SAP HANA
NOTE: Requires SAP Business Planning and Consolidation,
version for SAP NetWeaver, license and SAP HANA license

Planned innovations
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SAP HANA Optimized Dimension Member Formulas

Current
Only

Periodic storage type is accelerated

Member

formula and custom measures are NOT

accelerated by HANA

Future
Accelerate

member formula and custom

measures using SAP HANA MDX engine

Enable/disable

SAP HANA MDX at the Model

level
Support

various MDX functions supported by

SAP HANA MDX

Benefits
Minimize

calculate and store strategies to

enable real time calculations for metrics and
driver based calculations

Standardize

global calculation definitions

versus creating local members in reports
Planned innovations
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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation,

version for SAP NetWeaver
Top-Down Planning Using SAP HANA
Current

Business add-in is required to perform top-down
planning using an EPM add-in for Microsoft Office
Excel interface and Web interface

Customers must define the disaggregation logic in
the business add-in via ABAP code

Planned innovations

Standard rules for performing top down planning
will be optimized for SAP HANA.

Initial rollout will use the SAP EPM add-in for
Microsoft Excel interface and Web interface

Benefits

Disaggregation rules will be optimized for SAP
HANA

Rules will be available to business user with no
coding required
Planned innovations
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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation,

version for SAP NetWeaver
Planned Allocations using SAP HANA
Current

Allocations are typically done via a batch process
that executes a logic script.

Performing a high volume of allocations can
consume valuable system resources and time.

Planned innovations

Allocations will be optimized using SAP HANA in
a manner that is non-disruptive to current
implementations.

Innovation will apply to consolidations, planning
type models, and business processes.

Benefit

Allocations are optimized for SAP HANA.

Existing key words are leveraged to provide
innovation without disruption.

Planned innovations
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Cloud

Benefit from SAP Business Planning and

Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver,
powered by SAP HANA in the cloud:

Get up and running fast with a high-performance,
unified planning and consolidation application

Take advantage of flexible pricing options for lower
up-front costs

Choose the right environment for your
organization hybrid approach supports onpremise and on-demand applications

Leverage existing investments

Future direction
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Mobile performance management

Leverages mobile solutions, including the

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile mobile app
and Sybase Unwired Platform
Provides new mobile interface for the SAP
EPM Unwired mobile app, with entry
points to SAP solutions for enterprise
performance management (EPM):

Support for SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation 10.0

SAP Strategy Management mobile app for
enterprise insight

Presents business intelligence and EPM

scenarios as one consistent scenario to
the end user

Future direction
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Whats New

Extend
Continuous optimization and enhancements with each new service pack
New features and functionality with service pack releases
Usability

Advanced hierarchy support (SP07)

Reporting on archived data (SP07)

BPF reopen (SP07)

Enhancement drill-through in Web reports

(SP07)

Innovation

Equity pick-up for non-consolidated

entities (SP08)

Time dependent hierarchies (SP09)

Performance

Data manager data loading options

optimization (SP07)
Eliminations and adjustments (SP09)

Enhanced script logic functionality (SP07)

Suppression of empty and zero rows in

web reports (SP08)

Export web reports to a CSV file (SP08)

Firefox 8.0 support (SP07 and SP08)

Comments in web reports (SP09)

Security enhancements (SP09)

Web report refresh (SP09)

Support for NetWeaver 7.40 (SP10)

BPF select driver dimension member by

properties (SP10)

Support for Microsoft Windows 8 (SP10)

Support for Microsoft Office 2013 (SP10)

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Innovation cadence

2011
MAY - DEC

2012
JAN FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

SEP

OCT

2013
NOV

DEC

JAN FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

NW
GA

Ramp Up

Service Pack Highlights

(full details available through central notes)

SAP HANA support

Multiple
performance
improvements
BPF enhancements

Expanded support
for large numbers of
hierarchies
Multiple
performance
improvements
Native SAP
NetWeaver BW data
acquisition support
Firefox support

Equity pickup
Multiple
performance
improvements
Web report caching
SAP HANA
optimization

Time dependent
hierarchies

NetWeaver 7.4
Support

Multiple
performance
improvements

Windows 8

Web
enhancements

BPF driver
dimension
enhancements

Microsoft Office
2013

Large key figure

support

Web report drill thru

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Web Client Enhancement

Enhancements
Refresh Web Report
Enhancement Drill-Through
Suppression of empty and zero rows
Defer the layout update when creating
a report
Export web reports to a CSV file
Inline comments in web reports

Benefits
Easy to use and train users
Re-usable for mobile reports
Extendable

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Time Dependent Hierarchies

Enhancement
Supported in SP09 for both the EPM Excel
Add-In and web client
Can set entire hierarchy as time dependent
Load from SAP NetWeaver InfoObjects

Benefit
Allow customers to leverage SAP
Netweaver investments
Enables end users to do more what-if
analysis on data to see how the numbers
would rollup under different rollup scenarios

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Parallel Execution Framework

Leverage the parallelize framework to enable parallelized Consolidation
Parallel execute is now available for data load with data manager and consolidation
Major financial services company saw 8X improvement when loading data from SAP NW
Faster loading times means data is available sooner, which can mean faster decisions or more analysis

Read
Read
Read

Write Back

Calculation
Aggregate
Source
Data

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Calculation

Aggregate
Result

Write Back

Calculation

Write Back

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BPC on HANA Update

History
Since March 2012, with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10 SP6, customers have
the option to replace their traditional RDBMS systems with SAP HANA for use with SAP
NetWeaver. This change introduces a shift of processing from the Application layer to the
Database layer.

i7

Running SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP
HANA tackles the big data challenge, supports near real-time planning and analysis by
reducing decision cycle times, and empowers granular planning and scenario modeling for
better preparation and more accurate results.

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How does it work and what are the benefits to our SAP
Business Planning and Consolidation customers?
This is done by introducing a new non-disruptive and supplementary software component
called HANABPC. HANABPC re-implements some SAP Business Planning and Consolidation,
version for SAP NetWeaver functions to be accelerated by HANA while having no dependency
on the existing CPMBPC software component used by SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation.

i8

Benefits are:

Faster data loads and copying of data for what if analysis

Faster reporting and write back activities
Faster remodeling of structural changes
Faster lite optimizations for data compression and optimal performance
Fast migration from SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Classic: Environment with
250 Million records in 4 minutes
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The Bermuda Triangle of Analysis

Performance
(Time)

Accuracy

Granularity

(Business Rules)

(Sufficient Detail)

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With traditional relational, ROLAP

and MOLAP-based solutions
companies have been forced to
sacrifice one or more of these
axes that are crucial to providing
genuine business insight.

These constraints are a thing of

the past with SAP management
reporting solutions that leverage
HANA

SKU-level numbers, years of

historical data, business rules to
ensure accuracy are all delivered
with lightening-quick speed

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Who is running better with BPC on HANA right now?

As of today, we are aware of a number of live customers using SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA for planning or consolidation across
multiple industries and regions.
High Tech Company, 330,000 employees, $120 billion USD in annual revenue, using SAP Business Planning
and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA for head count planning including cost. Global
roll out with 3000-4000 users. WOW!
II.
Oil and Gas Company, 5,000 employees, $4 billion USD in annual revenue, using SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA for operating expense and capital planning plus
financial reporting.
III. Consumer Products Company, using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver
on SAP HANA for Profit & Loss planning by cost center.
IV. Consumer Products Company, 1,500 employees, using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for
SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA for their corporate planning process, such as sales, production, purchasing,
commission & Incentives, OPEX, CAPEX, financial Instruments, product cost planning, profitability and balance
sheet planning.
V.
High Tech Company, 65,000 employees, $21 billion USD in annual revenue, using SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA for sales forecasting.
VI. Insurance Company, 33,000 employees, $13 billion USD in annual revenue, using SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA for Profit & Loss planning and forecasting.
VII. Oil and Gas Company, 4000 employees, $15 billion USD in annual revenue, using SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA for legal consolidations.
I.

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Who is next?
Customer Solution Adoption is working with 15 customers who are implementing SAP
Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA. This is not
an exclusive count of customers implementing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation,
version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA but instead those customers that my team are
working with. Here are some details:

7 are new implementations

6 are BPC 7.5 NW upgrades
2 are BPC 10 NW upgrade
9 have planned go lives in the first half of this year
Scenarios include planning, consolidation, and both
Industries include Retail, Oil & Gas, and Consumer Products

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Social Media

You can also follow us on:

www.twitter.com/sapepm
www.twitter.com/SAP_IFRS_XBRL
www.twitter.com/cfoknowledge

http://cfoknowledge.wordpress.com/

www.facebook.com/sapepm
www.facebook.com/sapifrs
www.facebook.com/sapfinancialmanagement
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1
851849&mostPopular=&trk=tyah
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2
327383&mostPopular=&trk=tyah

www.sdn.sap.com/irj/bpx
/financial-excellence

http://blogs.sap.com/analytics/

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P
LB3220A879856DD4E

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BPC on HANA Resources and Testimonials

BPC on HANA Inside the Numbers!
Technical Considerations for Migrating to BPC 10 on HANA
How To Migrate a BPC 7.5NW appset to BPC 10 on HANA
BPC on HANA migration considerations
EPM 10 Add-in Academy for reporting in BPC on HANA
BPC on HANA is mission critical

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA
Video testimonials
Unmas shares their SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP HANA
story at SAPPHIRENOW Madrid Testimonial: BPC on HANA
SAP IT has been live with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver on SAP
HANA from November last year. Here is a link to the YouTube video -Reference: SAP IT SAP runs SAP
Video
In addition we have customer testimonials from Coca Cola Enterprises, Lonmin, and ConAgra -Testimonial:
BPC on HANA
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Thank you

Contact information:
Pras.Chatterjee@SAP.com

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