Planning Engine

The analytic manager in the BW system provides extensive reporting and planning functionalities. The Planning Engine allows you to create planning applications. The scope of these applications can range from simple manual data entry through to complex planning scenarios.

The following graphic provides an overview of the possible deployment scenarios: You can use the BW System either on a known - but not in-memory optimized - database (with an optional SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator) or on the SAP HANA database. For the latter case, there are two scenarios: The read accesses are performed either in-memory optimized or with planning-specific core functionalities as part of "deep integration".

Note

Note that the various deployment scenarios have different license models.

The following table provides an overview of the differences between the deployment scenarios. It shows that the difference is in terms of performance rather than actual features.

Server-Side Function	Standard on Classic Database	Standard on SAP HANA Database	Optimized on SAP HANA Database
Full Features	Supported	Supported	Supported
Integration of Reporting and Planning	Supported	Supported	Supported
In-Memory Optimized Read Accesses	Supported (with Additional SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator)	Supported	Supported
In-Memory Optimized Planning Functionality			Supported

More Information

The following sections provide details of the various aspects of planning with SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse:

BW-Integrated Planning

For information about the concepts in BW Integrated Planning that allow you to build integrated analytic applications, see Planning Business Data with BW Integrated Planning.

For information about using Planning Modeler as a tool for modeling all planning-specific metadata objects from BW Integrated Planning, see Planning Modeler.

Planning Applications Kit

In BW, you can perform planning using internal database routines. In the SAP HANA database, you can perform SAP HANA-optimized planning. For more information, see SAP Note 1637199. To use Planning Applications Kit, note the License conditions for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, Version for SAP NetWeaver.

Business Planning and Simulation (BW-BPS)

To view the documentation for the concepts and tools for business planning with the previous solution BW-BPS, go to Start of the navigation path http://help.sap.com/nw70 Next navigation step Application Help SAP Library SAP NetWeaver SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability Information Integration: Key Areas Business Intelligence BI Platform Business Planning Business Planning and Simulation (BW-BPS) End of the navigation path .