Overview
Application help for an embedded configuration of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP BW/4HANA.
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation provides everything you need to meet your bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements through a single application and user interface.
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 11.0, version for SAP BW/4HANA is a new product based on SAP BW/4HANA. The product supports the HANA database and uses SAPUI5 user interface technology. The SAP UI5 user interface is based on standard HTML5, which provides all the benefits of HTML5 and supports languages such as Hebrew and Arabic that are written and read from right to left. BW/4HANA is a new, next-generation data warehouse product that is optimized for the SAP HANA platform, delivering real-time, enterprise-wide analytics that minimizes the movement of data and connecting all the data in an organization into a single logical view.
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 11.0, version for BW/4HANA also introduces the new SAP Belize user interface that has a clean and consistent layout. Belize is the refined SAP Fiori visual language whose calm color tones help users stay focused on daily business tasks and content. With delightful visual details and typography, Belize conveys content with clarity and makes the user experience richer.
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In an embedded configuration, Business Planning and Consolidation is integrated with SAP HANA-optimized processing, through which you can perform SAP HANA-optimized planning. For details about SAP HANA-optimized processing and the BW planning processor, refer to Planning Concepts.
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In a standard configuration, you can use all the functionality that is available in the standard configuration of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver.
HTML5-based web client
The HTML5-based web client offers an integrated view for both business users and administrative users.
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office
There is a separate installation for business users who are power users - the SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office. For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office help available on the SAP Help Portal.
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Analytics Cloud is an all-in-one analytics platform for organizational planning, predictive analytics, and visualized business intelligence. Now the data integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BPC has been enhanced: models of periodic storage type can be consumed by SAP Analytics Cloud in write-back mode with significantly enhanced performance.
We recommend that you keep the SAP Analytics Cloud model based on BPC as small as possible by filtering in the mapping screen and synchronize frequently with your BPC data source. If you want to import BPC delta data into SAP Analytics Cloud all at once, we recommend that you keep the data volume to less than 1.5 GB and the number of records to less than 450,000.
Security
The Security Guide provides thorough security-relevant information for this release of Business Planning and Consolidation. The guide is available on the SAP Help Portal.
Starting the Web Client
To start the Planning and Consolidation Web Client, do the following:
Open a browser and connect to the URL http://<PC_server:port>/sap/epm/bpc/web/, where <PC_server:port> is the server name or IP address and port number of the Business Planning and Consolidation application location.