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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.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Planning and the Evolution of SAP Planning Software 1. An Overview of Business Planning ... 27 ... 1.1 Concepts in Business Planning ... 28 ... 1.2 Evolution of Planning Software in SAP systems ... 37 ... 1.3 The Role of IT in Developing a Planning Application ... 47 ... 1.4 Summary ... 49 Part II: Developing Planning Applications Using SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning 2. Introduction to SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning ... 53 ... 2.1 Objects Used in SAP NetWeaver BI ... 54 ... 2.2 Extracting, Transforming, and Loading Data in SAP NetWeaver BI ... 57 ... 2.3 Reporting in SAP NetWeaver BI ... 62 ... 2.4 SAP Business Content ... 63 ... 2.5 Planning Framework in SAP NetWeaver BI ... 64 ... 2.6 High-level Overview for Creating a Planning Application ... 66 ... 2.7 Modeling Considerations in Planning ... 71 ... 2.8 Case Study for Financial Planning ... 75 ... 2.9 Building the Data Model in SAP NetWeaver BI ... 80 ... 2.10 Summary ... 130 3. SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning - Configuring a Financial Application ... 131 ... 3.1 SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning Prerequisites ... 132 ... 3.2 SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning and the Planning Modeler ... 133 ... 3.3 Creating and Configuring a Planning Application ... 135 ... 3.4 Characteristic Relationships ... 191 ... 3.5 Data Slices ... 195 ... 3.6 Settings ... 198 ... 3.7 Summary ... 199 4. SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning - User Interface ... 201 ... 4.1 Reporting Tools in SAP NetWeaver BI ... 201 ... 4.2 Creating an Input-Enabled Query for Planning ... 206 ... 4.3 Creating a Planning Application User Interface Using the BEx Analyzer ... 212 ... 4.4 Creating a Planning Application User Interface Using the BEx Web Application Designer ... 226 ... 4.5 Analysis of Gross Profit Margin ... 238 ... 4.6 Summary ... 241 Part III: Developing Planning Applications 5. Essential Tools for Developing SAP NetWeaver BI Planning Applications ... 245 ... 5.1 Locking ... 246 ... 5.2 Status and Tracking System (STS) Application ... 253 ... 5.3 Authorization ... 272 ... 5.4 Transporting Planning Objects ... 286 ... 5.5 Retraction ... 290 ... 5.6 Performance Monitoring and Analysis ... 294 ... 5.7 Summary ... 296 6. SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning ... 6.1 SAP ASAP Methodology ... 297 ... 6.2 Best Practices for Project Implementation ... 299 ... 6.3 Summary ... 301 A. Author Biography ... 305 B. Sources and Further Reading ... 307 ... B.1 Sources ... 307 ... B.2 Further Reading ... 307 C. Glossary ... 309

About the Author :
Kumar Srinivasan is a senior business intelligence/SAP business planning and consolidation consultant for Zebra Consulting, Inc., in Houston, Texas. He holds a master's degree in finance from Loyola College in Chennai, India. He is also a certified cost accountant.Kumar has almost two decades of experience in information technology and has been working with SAP products since 1999. He is certified by SAP AG for the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) products. Kumar has expertise providing solutions in the areas of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW), SAP Business Planning and Simulation (BPS), SAP BI Integrated Planning (BI-IP), and SAP BPC. He provides diverse solutions to clients in areas that cover both back-end configuration and development of front-end user interfaces. His articles on topics related to SAP NetWeaver BW and BPC have been published in "BWExpert."Before working with Zebra Consulting, Inc., Kumar was employed with The World Bank as an information officer. During this time, he worked with relational database management systems, including Ingress, Informix, and Oracle. He also has extensive experience in the development of applications using messaging tools such as Lotus Notes.Kumar lives with his family in Cary, North Carolina. He can be reached at kshrini77@yahoo.com. Sridhar Srinivasan is a solution architect for Zebra Consulting, Inc., in Houston, Texas. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the College of Engineering in Guindy, Chennai, India. He graduated from the Master of Business Administration program at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business with a specialization in finance.Sri has over two decades of experience in information technology and has been working with SAP products since 1995. He is certified by SAP AG for the SAP BuinessObjects Business Intelligence and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) products. He has been directly involved with implementations of solutions in these areas for clients in the United States and has functioned as a lead consultant in managing the entire lifecycle of SAP BPC project implementations, from the project preparation phase through post-implementation support. His expertise is in the functional, technical, and project management areas of the implementation.Sri lives with his family in Houston, Texas. He can be reached at sri.srinivasan@zebraconsultinginc.com.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781592291298
  • Publisher: SAP Press
  • Publisher Imprint: SAP Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592291295
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jun 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Returnable: N


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