Value Proposition of Reporting Financials in SAP …...1. Comprehensive financial management transparency SAP ERP Reporting Financials in EhP3 and EhP4 – Benefits and Value – Overview

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Value Proposition of Reporting Financialsin SAP ERP 6.0 EhP3 and EhP4

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)







SAP ERP Reporting Financials in EhP3 and EhP4 –Benefits and Value – Detail 1

Comprehensive financial management transparencySimplified Reporting Financials Content coming with ERP 6.0 EhP3:

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

Reporting Financials ContentDelivered with ERP 6.0 EhP4 – Part 1










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 of consistent 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


UI Unification / Front-End Scalability

POWER List

Simple List Reporting

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

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Front-End ScalabilityCoverage of most importantreporting scenariosProvide MS Excel and Web basedreporting environmentAppropriate reports for differentreporting purposes and user groups(low-end reports <> high-end reports)Allow transition between differentfront-end tools

UI UnificationUsage of state-of-the-art UI toolsHarmonized end user experienceImproved end user productivity

Reporting Financials Content – Example 1

Profit center payables - example of a simple list report.POWER list without usage of SAP BI.


Cost center variances - example of a multidimensional report.Showing user defined exceptions.


Balance sheet - example of a formatted report.Ready for wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) printout.

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 broadcastingImprovement in intra-company communication as delivered content addressingmore 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)


Navigation from POWER List to BEx Analyzer

Switch between frontend tools without additional investmentUsage of BEx Analyzer features without any BI query definitionor any other BI entities such as Info Objects, Info Providers etc.

Navigation to Back-End-Transaction

By using the right-mouse-click context menu it is possible toeasily navigate from a report to another report or a back-end-transaction.The report-report-interface (RRI) is handing over contextinformation.

User Specific Definition of Exceptions

Definition of user-specific exceptions by using an easy to usewizard during report execution.







Reporting Environment

SAP Enterprise Portal and SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC) asalternative environments for reportingEasy to use navigation

Report Launchpad

Report Launchpad as unified approach to start all sorts of reportsRole based provisioning of set of reportsUser individual personalization capabilities

Report Launchpad

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Report Launchpad as unified approach to start all sorts of reports,here for example:(1) Formatted report(2) Query in MS Excel







Approach that allows 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 BIfunctionality (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.

Don’t 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).


Back-End Scalability:Grow with Your Business

POWER List Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer Web Report



Formatted Reporting

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Operational Information Provider

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ECCInfo Set Data Source

Back-EndScalability

Real-TimeLean Back-EndNo BI System NeededLow TCO

PerformanceOptimizationfor High Data VolumeFull Data Replicationto BI Needed

Reporting Financials – Architecture

POWER List Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer Web Report



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Operational Information Provider

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Switch Back-End Connection

You can choose between different back-end scenariosE.g. switch the same BI query between direct realtime access to ECCdata and replicated data in BI







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 ofSAP 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 system from 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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