Download or read book SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning for Finance written by Kumar Srinivasan and published by SAP PRESS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his practical reference introduces you to the BI Integrated Planning tool, an integral part of the SAP NetWeaver 2004s platform. Avoid spending countless hours researching the various options available in the BI Integrated Planning tool - as all the resources you need are right here in this convenient guide. Readers learn how best to configure, develop, and manage a planning application, plus much more. The authors take you on a journey, the goal of which is to make BI Integrated Planning for Finance more accessible. Real-world, practical examples help you learn vital concepts via a step-by-step, easy-to-understand approach. You'll quickly enhance your understanding of the importance of planning and then leverage that knowledge to build a complete financial planning application using SAP BI Integrated Planning. The highly-detailed examples help you develop a deeper understanding of the various features and allow you the opportunity to then reproduce them in your own environment, showing you firsthand how the BI Integrated Planning tool really works. Plus, readers also get expert guidance on the fundamentals of developing their own custom financial planning applications.Whether you're a functional analyst, a consultant, a business manager or a developer, this book goes beyond the basics to help you build world class planning applications in support of your organization's most important business processes.

Download or read book Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse written by Kevin McDonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the definitive guide for SAP NetWeaver BI professionals. Based on their extraordinary expertise with the product, the authors provide deep insights about key innovations in the areas of user experience, query performance, integrated planning, and enterprise-wide data warehousing." —Stefan Sigg, Vice President, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence The long-anticipated publication of this second edition reflects the growing success of SAP NetWeaver as well as the various Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities that are embedded with SAP BW version 7.0. Written by SAP insiders, this comprehensive guide takes into account the ever-changing features, functionality, and toolsets of SAP NetWeaver to bring you the most updated information on how to use SAP BW to design, build, deploy, populate, access, analyze, present, and administer data. You'll discover the options that are available in SAP NetWeaver and uncover a new means to improve business performance. This book reflects the process an organization goes through during an implementation of the software. The authors begin with an introduction to BI and SAP NetWeaver and quickly progress to information modeling and enterprise data warehouse concepts. You'll learn how to access and deliver meaningful analytic information to the organization, as well as perform integrated planning functions. Finally, the authors share invaluable insight on warehouse administration, performance, and security. With more than 50 percent new or revised material, this second edition of Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse shows you how to: Extract data from online transaction processing systems Store transformed data in a way that best supports reporting and analysis Use the various Business Explorer tools such as BEx Report Designer, BEx Analyzer, BEx Broadcaster, and BEx Web Application Designer Schedule, monitor, troubleshoot, and archive data loads The companion Web site contains sample chapters in Wiki format and the authors' blog where readers may enter discussions about the book and SAP. Wiley Technology Publishing Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ Visit the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/mcdonald The companion Web site contains the sample code presented in the text of the book, plus implementation templates.

Download or read book SAP Business Planning and Consolidation written by Kumar Srinivasan and published by SAP PRESS. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC)? What can it do to improve your workflow? Find the answers to these questions and more with this complete overview of SAP BPC for NetWeaver. Updated for 10.1, this fourth edition offers a look into planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation, as well as the basics in object modeling. From loading and managing data to reporting and analysis options, discover how to maximize SAP BPC's potential to improve your planning processes 1.Reporting and Analysis From entering data using input templates to analyzing data using both standard and embedded models, learn about the reporting and analysis tools available with SAP BPC. 2.SAP BPC on SAP HANADiscover the speed and processing capabilities of SAP BPC's integration with SAP BW on SAP HANA for the embedded planning model. 3. Real-World ApplicationReference this guide's practical case study, and see how deploying SAP BPC for NetWeaver can increase efficiency and create an improved planning system. Highlights: SAP BPC 10.1 for NetWeaver SAP BW on SAP HANA SAP Enterprise Performance Management add-in Reporting, planning, and analysis Loading, scheduling, and managing data Consolidation Standard planning model Embedded planning model Business logic and processes Process management and collaboration

Download or read book New SAP Controlling Planning Interface written by Martin Munzel and published by Espresso Tutorials GmbH. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With enhancement package 6, SAP has done some renovation work to a number of CO planning functions as well as master data maintenance. These functions are accessible via the NetWeaver Business Client as well of the Analysis Client which virtually provides a means of uploading plan data from Excel. The following transactions are affected by the renovation: - Primary cost planning for cost centers and projects - Overall cost planning- Activity planning - Master data maintenance for cost centers etc. The new transactions do not only provide a new look-and-feel; with the integration of BW-IP (Integrated Planning) functionality into SAP ERP, you can also show actual figures as well as historical plan data in your planning sheets. This functionality is brand new and has only been implemented for a few SAP clients. This book will provide a visual impression of the improved planning and maintenance transactions,with both screenshots and videos.

Download or read book ABAP Development for SAP NetWeaver BI User Exits and BAdIs written by Dirk Herzog and published by SAP PRESS. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User exits and Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) provide ideal approaches to extend and optimise your standard SAP system with custom developments. This book teaches you to implement these adaptations in ABAP for use in SAP NetWeaver BI. The book is written for BI consultants who have basic knowledge of ABAP as well as ABAP programmers who want to get started with BI development. After a brief overview of high-performance ABAP programming, you’ll learn how to structure the data flow from the source system up to the report and planning level using practical workshops. Readers learn how to use all of the capabilities of SAP NetWeaver BI, from transformation, including the derivation of characteristics and key figures, to start and end routines and transfer and update rules and benefit from expert instruction and techniques to implement even the most complex requirements with a limited amount of work, simply knowing how to choose the right user exits. An entirely new chapter in this edition describes how you can enhance the SAP BW-BPS planning components and the BI-Integrated Planning tool. Although this book is based on SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0, it also outlines the essential differences from previous releases as needed. With volumes of commented code examples, this book enables you to quickly and easily implement your own custom developments, step-by-step, in your daily work.

Download or read book Business Intelligence and Performance Management written by Peter Rausch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 21st century business environments have become more complex and dynamic than ever before. Companies operate in a world of change influenced by globalisation, volatile markets, legal changes and technical progress. As a result, they have to handle growing volumes of data and therefore require fast storage, reliable data access, intelligent retrieval of information and automated decision-making mechanisms, all provided at the highest level of service quality. Successful enterprises are aware of these challenges and efficiently respond to the dynamic environment in which their business operates. Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) offer solutions to these challenges and provide techniques to enable effective business change. The important aspects of both topics are discussed within this state-of-the-art volume. It covers the strategic support, business applications, methodologies and technologies from the field, and explores the benefits, issues and challenges of each. Issues are analysed from many different perspectives, ranging from strategic management to data technologies, and the different subjects are complimented and illustrated by numerous examples of industrial applications. Contributions are authored by leading academics and practitioners representing various universities, research centres and companies worldwide. Their experience covers multiple disciplines and industries, including finance, construction, logistics, and public services, amongst others. Business Intelligence and Performance Management is a valuable source of reference for graduates approaching MSc or PhD programs and for professionals in industry researching in the fields of BI and PM for industrial application.

Download or read book First Steps in SAP S 4HANA Finance written by Janet Salmon, Claus Wild and published by Espresso Tutorials GmbH. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their latest product, SAP S/4HANA, SAP is revolutionizing how we approach finance by re-architecting data persistency and merging accounts and cost elements. This book offers a fundamental introduction to SAP S/4HANA Finance. Dive into the three pillars of innovation including SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, SAP Cash Management, and SAP BI Integrated Planning. Find out about the new configuration options, updated data model, and what this means for reporting in the future. Get a first-hand look at the new user interfaces in SAP Fiori. Review new universal journal, asset accounting, material ledger, and account-based profitability analysis functionality. Examine the steps required to migrate to SAP S/4HANA Finance and walk through the deployment options. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, this book helps readers to: - Understand the basics of SAP S/4HANA Finance - Explore the new architecture, configuration options, and SAP Fiori - Examine SAP S/4HANA Finance migration steps - Assess the impact on business processes

Download or read book Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse written by Kevin McDonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the definitive guide for SAP NetWeaver BI professionals. Based on their extraordinary expertise with the product, the authors provide deep insights about key innovations in the areas of user experience, query performance, integrated planning, and enterprise-wide data warehousing." —Stefan Sigg, Vice President, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence The long-anticipated publication of this second edition reflects the growing success of SAP NetWeaver as well as the various Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities that are embedded with SAP BW version 7.0. Written by SAP insiders, this comprehensive guide takes into account the ever-changing features, functionality, and toolsets of SAP NetWeaver to bring you the most updated information on how to use SAP BW to design, build, deploy, populate, access, analyze, present, and administer data. You'll discover the options that are available in SAP NetWeaver and uncover a new means to improve business performance. This book reflects the process an organization goes through during an implementation of the software. The authors begin with an introduction to BI and SAP NetWeaver and quickly progress to information modeling and enterprise data warehouse concepts. You'll learn how to access and deliver meaningful analytic information to the organization, as well as perform integrated planning functions. Finally, the authors share invaluable insight on warehouse administration, performance, and security. With more than 50 percent new or revised material, this second edition of Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse shows you how to: Extract data from online transaction processing systems Store transformed data in a way that best supports reporting and analysis Use the various Business Explorer tools such as BEx Report Designer, BEx Analyzer, BEx Broadcaster, and BEx Web Application Designer Schedule, monitor, troubleshoot, and archive data loads The companion Web site contains sample chapters in Wiki format and the authors' blog where readers may enter discussions about the book and SAP. Wiley Technology Publishing Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ Visit the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/mcdonald The companion Web site contains the sample code presented in the text of the book, plus implementation templates.

Download or read book SAP Business Intelligence written by Norbert Egger and published by SAP PRESS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides you with highly detailed information on all of the most important BI features of the new SAP NetWeaver 2004s release. You gain a profound understanding of SAP BI and quickly learn how to master the new release. Familiar subjects like data modeling, ETL, web reporting, and planning are combined with expert insights on essential new BI functions and core concepts, making this reference an invaluable companion for your daily work. The authors provide exclusive details on advanced developments in BEx Analyzer and BEx Web Application Designer, as well as on the BEx Report Designer, BI-integrated planning, the BI Accelerator and Visual Composer, ensuring that your most important questions are addressed with practical guidance. Real-life examples, volumes of screen captures, and detailed graphics, as well as step-by-step instructions, enable you to quickly and easily familiarize yourself with all of the new BI functions. This book is intended for SAP consultants, team members, and managers in the areas of IT, BI, and controlling. Highlights include: Business Intelligence Concepts New Features of SAP NetWeaver 2004s Data Modeling in the Data Warehousing Workbench Data Retrieval Performance Optimization with Aggregates and BI Accelerator Redesign Functions: Repartitioning and Remodeling BEx Query Designer BEx Analyzer BEx Web Application Designer Report Designer BI-Integrated Planning Visual Composer

Download or read book SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation written by Sridhar Srinivasan and published by SAP PRESS. This book was released on 2010 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the major features, functions, and modules of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for NetWeaver, including screenshots and walkthroughs. Beyond the product functional detail, the authors also provide best practices for budgeting, planning, forecasting, and consolidations, and offer information specific to consolidation and business planning topics. Finally, the book includes a case study used as the basis for the planning and consolidation examples presented throughout. Features and Functions Learn how application modeling, data management, process management, and reporting work in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. SAP Integration Discover how you can integrate SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation with SAP NetWeaver and other SAP applications and components. Reporting and Analysis Understand the heart of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation through extensive coverage of reporting and analysis framework. Deep Dive Consolidation Scenarios Get expert insight into real-world planning and consolidation scenarios through the use of example-driven best practices and implementation advice. Complete Overview Benefit from a complete overview of how SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation can improve budgeting in your enterprise.

Download or read book Enterprise SOA written by Dan Woods and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Technology professionals can use this book to move beyond the excitement of web services and service oriented architecture (SOA) and begin the process of finding actionable ideas to innovate and create business value. In Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work is analyzed from top to bottom. In addition to design, development, and architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture are also explored. This comprehensive perspective reduces risk as IT departments implement ESA, a sound, flexible architecture for adapting business processes in response to changing market conditions. This book answers the following questions: What forces created the need for Enterprise Services Architecture? How does ESA enable business process innovation? How is model-driven development used at all levels of design, configuration, and deployment? How do all the layers of technology that support ESA work together? How will composite applications extend business process automation? How does ESA create new models for IT governance? How can companies manage disruptive change? How can enterprise services be discovered and designed? How will the process of adapting applications be simplified? Based on extensive research with experts from the German software company SAP, this definitive book is ideal for architects, developers, and other IT professionals who want to understand the technology and business relevance of ESA in a detailed way--especially those who want to move on the technology now, rather than in the next year or two.

Download or read book SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects written by Loren Heilig and published by SAP PRESS. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally-the entire SAP BI world comes in one volume! This comprehensive guide covers the full spectrum of SAP solutions for business intelligence: both SAP NetWeaver and SAP BusinessObjects. In this all-encompassing reference, you will learn everything you need to know regarding data modeling and retrieval, optimal use of reporting tools from SAP (BEx and BusinessObjects), and the essential differences and recent changes between SAP BW 3.x and SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3. This is the ultimate resource that you will consult over and over again, with essential information for SAP consultants, IT staff, DB managers, and end-users. Highlights: - BI in the enterprise - Data modeling - ETL - Administration - Permissions - SAP Business Explorer - SAP BusinessObjects Analysis - SAP Crystal Reports - SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) - SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence - SAP BusinessObjects Explorer - SAP BusinessObjects BI platform - BW integrated planning - SAP SEM-BCS -

Download or read book SAP Business Information Warehouse Reporting written by Peter Jones and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Hands-On Guide to SAP Business Information Warehouse Give your company the competitive edge by delivering up-to-date, pertinent business reports to users inside and outside your enterprise. SAP Business Information Warehouse Reporting shows you how to construct Enterprise Data Warehouses, create workbooks and queries, analyze and format results, and supply meaningful reports. Learn how to use the BEx and Web Analyzers, Web Application Designer, Visual Composer, and Information Broadcaster. You will also find out how to forecast future business trends, build enterprise portals and websites, and tune performance. Group data into InfoCubes and DataStore Objects and generate reports using queries and workbooks Work with the BEx Analyzer, Web Analyzer, and Query Designer Build queries and reports using the Business Administration Workbench Add attachments and drill-through using Document Integration and RRI Format and distribute results using Report Designer and Information Broadcaster Extend functionality with Enterprise Portal, Data Modeling, and Visual Composer Deploy charts, maps, diagrams, and unit of measure conversions Predict trends and possible outcomes using SBC and Integrated Planning Generate HTML pages using Enterprise Reporting and Web Application Designer Create BI-based corporate Web and intranet sites using SAP Enterprise Portal

Download or read book SAP Enterprise Performance Management EPM Add In written by Kermit Bravo and published by Espresso Tutorials GmbH. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our dynamic business environment reporting, planning and analysis are more relevant than ever. The SAP EPM Excel Add-In is a business enabler. This book will provide useful information to jumpstart project implementations and facilitate end-user training in practical manner. Understand key features and concepts that the EPM Add-in brings to the table. Walk through a detailed case study and examples to familiarize yourself with the SAP EPM Excel Add-in features and functions within the context of a business example. This book was written with a broad audience in mind and will appeal to different implementation roles ranging from consultants to business users, and architects to planners. For entry-level and seasoned SAP practitioners alike, this book will serve as a reference guide that distills years of experience and focuses on some of the most frequently used features in successful implementation projects. This book offers tips, tricks, and time savers that you can immediately apply. - Learn about the Connection Concept - Familiarize yourself with the SAP EPM Add-In for Excel and BPC 10.1 - Create a basic report from scratch - Walk through a detailed case Study

Download or read book First Steps in Sap S 4hana Finanice written by Janet Salmon and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their latest product, SAP S/4HANA, SAP is revolutionizing how we approach finance by re-architecting data persistency and merging accounts and cost elements. This book offers a fundamental introduction to SAP S/4HANA Finance. Dive into the three pillars of innovation including SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, SAP Cash Management, and SAP BI Integrated Planning. Find out about the new configuration options, updated data model, and what this means for reporting in the future. Get a first-hand look at the new user interfaces in SAP Fiori. Review new universal journal, asset accounting, material ledger, and account-based profitability analysis functionality. Examine the steps required to migrate to SAP S/4HANA Finance and walk through the deployment options. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, this book helps readers to: - Understand the basics of SAP S/4 Finance - Explore the new architecture, configuration options, and SAP Fiori - Examine SAP S/4 Finance migration steps - Assess the impact on business processes

Download or read book Implementing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation written by Peter Jones and published by SAP Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementing Integrated Business Planning written by Robert Kepczynski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comprehensive guidance on leveraging SAP IBP technology to connect strategic (to be understood as long term SC&O), tactical and operational planning into one coherent process framework, presenting experience shared by practitioners in workshops, customer presentations, business, and IT transformation projects. It offers use cases and a wealth of practical tips to ensure that readers understand the challenges and advantages of IBP implementation. The book starts by characterizing disconnected planning and contrasting this with key elements of a transformation project approach. It explains the functional foundations and SAP Hybris, Trade Promotion Planning, Customer Business Planning, ARIBA, and S/4 integration with SAP IBP. It then presents process for integrating finance in IBP. Annual planning and monthly planning are taken as examples of explain Long term planning (in some companies labeled as strategic). The core of the book is about sales and operations planning (S&OP) and its process steps, product demand, supply review, integrated reconciliation and management business review, illustrating all steps with use cases. It describes unconstrained and constrained optimized supply planning, inventory optimization, shelf life planning. We explain how to improve responsiveness with order-based allocation planning, sales order confirmation, and big deal / tender management coupled with simultaneous re-planning of supply. The book closes with a chapter on performance measurement, measurement of effectiveness, efficiency, and adherence.