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Solution Management ERPSAP AG

August 2008

Value Proposition of Reporting Financialsin SAP ERP 6.0 EhP3 and EhP4

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1. Comprehensive financial management transparency

SAP ERP Reporting Financials in EhP3 and EhP4

Benefits and Value Overview

2. Improves efficiency in reviewing and analyzing financial data

3. Simplifies access to relevant reports

4. Approach that allows to grow with business

5. Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

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Benefits and Value Detail 1

Comprehensive financial management transparency

Simplified Reporting Financials Content coming with ERP 6.0 EhP3:

New General Ledger (FI-GL)including Profit Center and Segment reporting

Accounts Receivables (FI-AR)

Accounts Payables (FI-AP)

Product Costing (CO-PC)

Cost Center Accounting (CO-OM-CCA)

Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA)

Simplified Reporting Financials Content coming with ERP 6.0 EhP4:

Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

Investment Management (IM-FA)

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)

Closing (CLC)

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Reporting Financials Content

Delivered with ERP 6.0 EhP4 Part 1

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Improves efficiency in reviewing and analyzing financial data

Most important reporting scenarios supported

Simple list reports (e.g. G/L account line items)

Multidimensional and/or graphical analysis (e.g. cost centersactual/plan/variance)

Formatted reports (e.g. Balance Sheet; Cash Flow statement)

Small set ofconsistent and efficient reporting tools

State of the art reporting tools: POWER List, BEx Suite (i.e. BIreporting front-end tools: BEx Analyzer, Web Analyzer, Web Report)

Consistent user experience between different tools

Easy to use by end users with low training effort



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UI Unification / Front-End Scalability

POWER List

Simple List Reporting

BEx Suite (i.e. BI Reporting Front-End Tools)

Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer Web ReportTools

Multidimensional and Graphical Analysis

FormattedReporting

Scenarios

Front-End Scalability

Coverage of most important

reporting scenarios

Provide MS Excel and Web based

reporting environment

Appropriate reports for di fferent

reporting purposes and user groups

(low-end reports high-end reports)

Allow transi tion between di fferent

front-end tools

UI Unification

Usage of state-of-the-art UI tools

Harmonized end user experience

Improved end user productivity

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Reporting Financials Content Example 1

Profit center payables - example of a simple list report.

POWER list without usage of SAP BI.

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Cost center variances - example of a multidimensional report.

Showing user defined exceptions.

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Balance sheet - example of a formatted report.

Ready for wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) pr intout .

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Improves efficiency in reviewing and analyzing financial data

Powerful and easy to use functionality for analysis (examples):

Drill-down or drill-across by drag-and-drop

Filtering by drag-and-drop

Switch between MS Excel and Web based reporting by clicking a button

Definition of user specific exceptions and conditions by using a wizard

Easy navigation to other reports or back-end transactions

Distribution of analysis results by broadcasting

Improvement in int ra-company communication as delivered content addressing

more users with different skill sets:

Professional users (e.g. highly interactive reports leveraging all sorts ofmultidimensional slicing and dicing, filtering, display options, etc. SAP BI isproviding)

Occasional users (e.g. easy report access and easy to use predefined reportswithout complex interaction)



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Navigation from POWER List to BEx Analyzer

Switch between frontend tools without additional investment

Usage of BEx Analyzer features without any BI query definit ion

or any other BI entities such as Info Objects, Info Providers etc.

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Navigation to Back-End-Transaction

By using the right-mouse-click context menu it is possible to

easily navigate from a report to another report or a back-end-

transaction.

The report-report-interface (RRI) is handing over context

information.

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User Specific Definition of Exceptions

Definition of user-specific exceptions by using an easy to use

wizard during report execution.

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Reporting Environment

SAP Enterprise Portal and SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) as

alternative environments for reporting

Easy to use navigation

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Report Launchpad

Report Launchpad as unified approach to start all sorts of reports

Role based provisioning of set of reports

User individual personalization capabilities

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Report Launchpad

(1)

(2)

Report Launchpad as unified approach to start all sor ts of reports,

here for example:

(1) Formatted report

(2) Query in MS Excel

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Approach that al lows to grow with business

Different deployment options for data provisioning:

These options scale from very lean back-end scenarios with basicallyno SAP BI in place to full blown SAP BI scenarios providing any BI

functionality (e.g. performance optimization via BI Accelerator).

This enables you to keep your system as lean as your businessallows.

Grow your system with your business:

Grow from a lean deployment option to a more elaborate one whenyour growing business requires this.

Dont loose your front-end investments by using the same reports inthe changed environment (e.g. switch your BI queries from directECC access without data replication to replicated data access).



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Back-End Scalability:

Grow with Your Business

POWER List Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer Web Report



FormattedReporting

Tools

Scenarios

Operational Information Provider

NetWeaver

ECC

Info Set Data Source

Back-End

Scalability

Real-Time

Lean Back-End

No BI System Needed

Low TCO

Performance

Optimization

for High Data Volume

Full Data Replicationto BI Needed

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Reporting Financials Architecture

POWER List Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer Web Report



FormattedReporting

Tools

Scenarios

Operational Information Provider

NetWeaver

ECC

BI

Query

Info Set Data Source

Meta Data

Master Data

Transaction Data

B

IAccelerator

InfoProvider

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Switch Back-End Connection

You can choose between different back-end scenarios

E.g. switch the same BI query between direct realtime access to ECC

data and replicated data in BI

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Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Small set of intuitive, state-of-the-art reporting tools enables evenoccasional end users with low training effort.

Efficient report access and extending powerful analytical features of

SAP BI to operational data reports increases end user productivity.

Back-end scalability offers different deployment options for dataprovisioning. This enables you to keep your system as lean as yourbusiness allows.

Grow your systemfrom a lean deployment option to a more elaborateone when your growing business requires this without loosing yourfront-end investments by using the same reports (e.g. switch your BIqueries from direct ECC access without data replication to replicateddata access).



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