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CMA Vivek Bhalerao

SAP - Systeme, Anwendungen und

Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung

(Systems, Applications & Products in

Data Processing)

SAP is headquartered in Walldorf,Baden-

Württemberg, Germany

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SAP established in

1972 by 5 engineers

from IBM

SAP is the world leader in enterprise applications in terms of software and software-related service revenue. Based on market capitalization, SAP is the world’s third largest independent software manufacturer.

More than 263,000 customers in 188 countries More than 68,800 employees – and locations in more

than 130 countries

A 42-year history of innovation and growth as a true industry leader

Annual revenue (IFRS) of € 16,82 billion

Listed under the symbol "SAP" on stock exchanges, including the Frankfurt Exchange and NYSE

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21st December 2014 4 http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2014/05/12/gartners-erp-market-share-update-shows-the-future-of-cloud-erp-is-now/

The worldwide ERP software market grew 3.8% from $24.4B in 2012 to $25.4B in 2013.

SAP retained their market leadership position in 2013, selling $6.1B in ERP software up from $6B in 2012. Oracle is second with $3.117B in sales in 2013, down .2% from 2012’s sales of $3.124B. Sage is third with $1.5B in sales in 2013, Infor is fourth with $1.5B in sales, and Microsoft -0.36% is fifth with $1.169B in sales in 2013.

Gartner report as appearing in the Forbes Magazine

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BPC stands for BusinessObjects Planning & Consolidation. BPC is relatively (as compared to R3 & ECC) a new product from SAP.

As the name suggests, the product is divided into two parts viz (i) Planning, and (ii) Consolidation. It is based on BusinessObjects (BO or popularly known as BI / BW) platform

The planning part takes care of budgeting, forecasting, operational planning etc

The consolidation part takes care of legal consolidation of subsidiaries and management consolidation for internal purposes

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SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation is a unified, predictive

performance platform dedicated to

financial processes like budgeting,

planning and forecasting, statutory consolidation and other

performance management

processes in the financials area. As a

business user oriented and unified platform for Corporate Performance

Management, it helps the finance

departments to gain insight into their

financial performance.

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SAP BPC

Planning

Reporting Consolidati

on

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ECC - CS

HANA

based

BPC

BPC 10.x

SEM-BCS

BPC 7.x

ECC based

BI based

Independent

- EVDRE

HANA based

Independent

– No EVDRE

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BPC

Planning

Planning Budgeting Forecast

Consolidation

Legal Consolidation

Management Consolidation

There are two versions of BPC viz Netweaver

(NW) and Microsoft version (MS). Today we

are going to cover only Netweaver version

of BPC and not the Microsoft version

We will cover “Planning” under Planning

module, and “Legal Consolidation” under

Consolidation module

BPC is entirely a different system. It does not

reside inside R/3 or ECC.

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SAP BW

P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow

ECC

BPC Consolidation

Management Reporting

Other ERP

Via Flat Files

Excel Files

MS office Web

BPC Front end

Standard /Adhoc Internal Reporting

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Logon screens

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Script Logic

Application Set (Appset) (Called Environment in BPC 10)

Dimensions (out of the library)

Dimension Library

Security Business Rules

Library

Applications (called Model in BPC 10)

Application 1 (Called Model in BPC 10)

Business Rules (out of the library)

Property 1

Property 3

Property 2

Property 4

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Web Interface (Admin Console)

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Excel Interface (Report Viewing)

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Excel Interface (Report Development)

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Reduced planning and consolidation cycle times thanks to more reliable, timely financial data

More accurate plans, budgets, and forecasts due to collaboration and accountability

Minimized compliance risk with accurate

reporting that meets statutory requirements

Improved data quality through a central data repository

Increased stakeholder confidence with a fast and accurate financial close

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Unified tool which enables to perform multiple levels of consolidation (legal and management) within a single application

Business Process Flows - Enable consistency and visibility

Familiar User Interface to leverage Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word interfaces, plus Business Objects

Top-down and bottom-up budgeting - Align budgets with targets

Automated consolidation capabilities – Faster Financial closing

Compliance and auditing – Comply with regulations & standards

What if Scenario Analysis to model different scenarios and assess potential future outcomes.

Reporting: Generate reports on the fly

Multy-lingual capabilities

Storing comments on the data

Work status (locking the data)

Distribution & Collection of data

Easy to use programming interface

Version Management

Supports XBRL report creation

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Formulae on Excel Sheet

Business Rules

Script Logic

BAdis

ABAP programming

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