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OUtlooksoft (SAP BPC)
The industry's first unified and predictive performance management solution Hundreds of Fortune
1000 and Global 2000 companies rely on OutlookSoft® performance management software to
manage their most critical financial and operational planning, budgeting, reporting, and analytic
requirements.
OutlookSoft® SAP® BPC™ is a unified, predictive performance platform that delivers the
following core process functionality and features from a single enterprise-scale application and
database:
·0 Strategic planning
·1 Budgeting
·2 Forecasting
·3 Statutory consolidation
·4 Reporting & analysis
·5 Predictive analytics
·6 Scorecarding
Designed for the User
OutlookSoft SAP BPC is designed to empower every user-regardless of skill level-to
easily gain access to, interact with, and leverage financial and operational data for timely
and effective decision-making. The solution makes it exceptionally easy for users to
access, use, and leverage OutlookSoft SAP BPC from the environment of their choice-be
it Microsoft® Office™ or a standard Web browser.
Key benefits and features delivered by OutlookSoft SAP BPC include zero footprint
reporting, complete Microsoft Office integration and dynamic Web access.
Built for the Enterprise OutlookSoft SAP BPC is built on a modern service-oriented
architecture (SOA), so IT organizations can easily incorporate the solution with existing
infrastructure standards (like LDAP security stores), and allow other SOA-based
technologies to make calls to and from its services. This means performance applications
built on OutlookSoft SAP BPC can more readily become an integral part of an
organization's financial and operational IT strategy. And OutlookSoft SAP BPC leverages
cutting-edge Internet technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to
provide the richest Web-based user experience possible.
Key architectural and technology features delivered by OutlookSoft SAP BPC include
mutli-platform and database support (including Microsoft, Oracle® and UNIX®),
application level security, AJAX-driven Web interface and documented APIs.
Better for Business OutlookSoft SAP BPC delivers robust financial and operational
applications spanning the full spectrum of performance management-including planning,
consolidation, reporting, analysis, and compliance. New to OutlookSoft SAP BPC is its
revolutionary business process flow (BPF) technology-delivering contextual, user-driven
workflow definition and process enablement. BPF represents an industry breakthrough in
how users create and manage workflow and shared processes throughout the whole of the
performance process.
OutlookSoft SAP BPC enables developers build, manage, and control applications faster
and in a more unified fashion than ever before-delivering solutions that leverage shared
metadata, approval flows, process and workflow tracking, and application interfaces.
Key features and functionality delivered by OutlookSoft SAP BPC include applications
for planning, reporting and analysis, complete process management (with contextual
business process flows), accelerated analysis, robust compliance capabilities, and more.
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What is SAP BPC

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (formerly
OutlookSoft) is a corporate performance management tool that can
cater for all types of planning and forecasting, from simple small
processes to complex multi layer processes, while also providing
consolidation and easy to use reporting.
SAP BPC offers a robust, multiuser platform, which is fully integrated with Microsoft
Excel. Initially leveraging off the power of Microsoft SQL Server and Analysis Services
there is now another version that uses SAP Netweaver as its back-end database. Although
similar, especially to the end user, these two versions of the product do offer different
functionalities (see whitepaper)
The main features of SAP BPC are:
Multi-Dimensional
The multi-dimensional nature allows users to “slice and dice” the data according their
needs.
Dynamic
As SAP BPC utilises OLAP technology, this means that data is available as soon as it has
been entered – no need to aggregate data!
Workflow Management
Enables an organisation to keep track of its progress through a budget/forecasting process

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation
Streamline Planning, Budgeting, And Forecasting – And
Close The Books Faster
To consistently manage your company's performance, you need the ability to develop
timely and accurate plans and budgets that are aligned with strategic goals. You also need
the ability to seamlessly integrate corporate and departmental planning, quickly model
business scenarios, and re-forecast to meet rapidly changing business conditions. Finally,
you need a way to ensure a fully documented audit trail and compliance with strict
guidelines for consolidating and reporting company information internally and externally,
in accordance with regulatory requirements for International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRS) and electronic filing of financial statements in Extended Business
Reporting Language (XBRL) format.
The SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application unifies and streamlines
the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process and can enable a faster close. Finance-
owned and maintained, the application unifies planning, financial consolidation and
management reporting for the enterprise – improving budget cycle times, driving
compliance with regulatory and financial standards, helping reduce external audit costs,
instilling confidence, and reducing business risk.
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation is available in two versions:
·7 SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft
platform – A unified planning, budgeting, and consolidation application that is
designed to be owned and managed by business users
·8 SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP
NetWeaver – A unified planning and consolidation application built directly on
the SAP NetWeaver technology platform and designed to be owned and managed
by business users
With SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, everything you need to meet
your bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements, as well as
complete consolidation and reporting, is available through a single, unified application
and user interface. You can benefit from:
·9 Improved agility – Quickly model new business scenarios and decide on a course
of action that maximizes value creation
·10 Reduced cycle time – Finance and line-of-business managers can collaborate in a
unified landscape, streamlining the process of creating and approving plans,
budgets, and forecasts.
·11 Minimized business and compliance risk – Transparent financial data and a
single version of the truth enable fast, accurate management and statutory
reporting.
·12 Increased user productivity – An intuitive interface and familiar office tools
help workers make the most of their time.