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Session Descriptions
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Ensure a smooth migration from SAP BPS to SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning
Improve tax provision computation with SAP BPS and SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning
What SAP implementation, upgrade, and finance teams need to know about implementing SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning
This session offers a detailed look at SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning functionality and in-depth implementation advice. Watch this session to:
- Pinpoint the differences between BPS and SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning and investigate its integration points with Query Designer and SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.0.
- Learn how your peers are leveraging Information Broadcaster and Visual Composer to distribute information to executives not directly involved in the planning process.
- Delve into a proven strategy for accurately estimating, staffing and mobilizing your SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning project implementation team.
- Receive an in-depth project plan identifying each step in the design, build, test and deployment phases and take home a list of project deliverables by project phase.
- Draw lessons from recent SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning implementations that will help you address key implementation issues, such as the stability of Java-based reports, query performance, and data locking.
Ensure a smooth migration from SAP BPS to SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning
Evaluate the differences of SAP BPS and SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning and determine which is right for your strategic planning requirements. Watch this session to:
- Examine the factors you must consider when migrating from SAP® BPS to SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning.
- Get advice on preparation steps you must perform in SAP BPS before migrating to SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning.
- Gain insight into why you should avoid over customizing your SAP BPS system if you plan to adopt SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning, and get advice for what to do if your BPS system is already heavily customized.
- Identify scenarios where it may be necessary for SAP BPS and SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning to co-exist and how to manage this dual environment.
How to master the organizational, technical, and cultural complexities of a global SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning implementation or upgrade
Examine the organizational, technical, and cultural challenges you will face and decisions you must make when rolling out or upgrading SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning to global offices and subsidiaries. Watch this session to:
- Learn how to set up and manage multiple currencies, and get tips for creating and using global planning templates, managing planning cycles, and standardizing data.
- Obtain best practices for how to gain business buy-in and management sponsorship for your global SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning project.
- Delve into the key differences between using SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning locally versus globally.
- Explore your options for a global SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning pilot implementation.
- Learn how to migrate your global planning activities from SAP BW BPS to SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning.
- Identify data modeling objects that could be reused, such as InfoCubes, InfoObjects, and hierarchies, and the objects that will need to be newly developed such as aggregation levels, filters, and editable queries.
- Get valuable tips for dealing with global planning data performance challenges.
Expert tips and tricks for building a Web-based planning application in SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning
This session offers step by step instruction on how to develop a Web-based planning application in SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning using the BEx Web Application Designer. Watch this session to:
- Take a guided tour of the prerequisites for getting started.
- Obtain guidelines for how to develop a real-time InfoCube and how to utilize an input query.
- Understand why these preparations are essential before building the planning application.
- Take an in-depth look at how to create a Web template, including the set-up of items such as drop down boxes, analysis, and button groups.
- Get tips for creating function buttons within your Web application for copying information, revaluating data, and saving data.
- Learn how to create a container layout item to structure your application.
- Gain insight into how to tap into key planning functionality within your Web application once it is deployed.
A 5-step process for implementing a sales, profitability, and mix planning model in SAP BPS or SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning
This session offers a 5 step plan to structure and implement a sales, profitability, and mix planning model in SAP BPS or SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning. Watch this session to:
- Get guidelines for the implementation process, data design (InfoCubes), planning functions, key reports and easy end user access.
- Learn how to structure characteristics and key figures for plan data and understand the impact that this data has on the actual profitability data model.
- Get expert advice to determine the appropriate level of data granularity that allows detailed planning without adding unnecessary system complexity or compromising performance.
- Obtain configuration tips to generate bottom-up plan values as well as detailed top-down adjustments.
- Empower end users with an interface that delivers planning and reporting functionality to their desktops.
Improve tax provision computation with SAP BPS and SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning
Is your company's ability to make quick decisions on whether to purchase or dispose of assets slowed down by cumbersome tax calculations in spreadsheets or external systems? Watch this session to:
- Gain new perspective on how your company can streamline the calculation of tax provisions by using SAP BPS or SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning.
- See how the use of SAP BW as a central source of disparate data and varying tax rates allows you to discontinue the use of cumbersome spreadsheets to calculate taxes.
- Learn how to use SAP BPS or SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning to calculate tax provisions that include both plan and actual data.
- Get tips and examples for writing FOX formulas and other logic to account for depreciation and other book adjustments.
- Review formulas for generating current and deferred tax amounts.
- Find out how to display and deliver input and calculation functionality to users for tax reporting, and take home a sample view of a user interface.
Updates to SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Integrated Planning and what that means for SAP BPS users
Gain a solid understanding of the new SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence 7.0 Integrated Planning (BI-IP) capabilities and the ways in which they differ from those in SAP BW Business Planning and Simulation (BW-BPS). Watch this session to:
- Learn the right way to prepare for the latest functionality.
- Gain insight into new SAP BI-IP updates that enable you to create better SAP BEx queries while ensuring the integrity and consistency of key planning data.
- Learn why and how to replace multiple SAP BW-BPS planning layouts with a single SAP BW query, and see how this could dramatically improve your budgeting and planning processes.
- Gain insight into how to reduce reliance on IT to support budgeting and planning by leveraging SAP BI-IP's single session capability.
- Decide if you should completely replace existing SAP BW-BPS configuration with SAP BI-IP or whether the two can co-exist within your organization.
- Walk away with proven SAP BI-IP configuration tips, such as ways to integrate planning functions directly into SAP BEx workbooks.
Case study: Lessons from the City of Burnaby's design and implementation of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Integrated Planning
Walk through the City of Burnaby's plan for developing and implementing its SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Integrated Planning (BI-IP) solution. Watch this session to:
- See how the City of Burnaby delivers SAP NetWeaver BI-IP planning layouts via SAP NetWeaver Portal to make it easier for users to manage operating and capital budgets.
- Delve into the design, prototype, data flows, integration points, user engagement, training, and the dynamic reporting results of the City of Burnaby's SAP NetWeaver BI-IP implementation.
- Hear how the City developed its SAP NetWeaver BI-IP prototype with a diverse range of business needs in mind.
- Step through a demo of how end-to-end business processes are executed and how planning layouts are used by managers in the City of Burnaby's SAP NetWeaver BI-IP solution.
- Learn how the city uses Express Planning, including what process steps and procedures are available to users with this application.
- Get tips for addressing complex decision points as you move through the implementation and techniques for building support for your project.
- Bonus! A sample end-user training plan is available in your appendix files.
Performance management using SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Integrated Planning in conjunction with SAP SEM Business Consolidation System
Obtain recommendations to design, construct and implement a successful performance management system using SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Integrated Planning (BI-IP) and SAP SEM Business Consolidation System (BCS). Watch this session to:
- Examine key factors that will affect the way you integrate SAP BI-IP and SEM-BCS, including your forecasting process, the source and quality of SAP BI-IP and SEM-BCS data, SEM-BCS data modeling restrictions, and reporting requirements.
- Identify important architectural decisions to make at the start of your project, including system landscape design, definition of the data model, data flow from source systems, and design of authorizations.
- Find out how to overcome tough challenges, such as the complexity of reporting on SAP BI-IP data via SEM-BCS, bottlenecks while exchanging data between SAP BI-IP and SEM-BCS, and master data conflicts.
- Bonus! A set of guidelines to increase user acceptance and satisfaction with your SAP BI-IP and SEM-BCS performance management system can be found in your course book.