Integration with BW, BPC and Analysis for Office

SAP Profitability and Performance Management allows the convenient integration with SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office, including redundancy-free reuse of data, master data and hierarchies.

SAP Business Warehouse Integration

The solution uses SAP Business Warehouse capabilities as an underlying Tool-BW in standalone scenarios. This includes relevant applications for management and maintenance of the BW and reusing Business Warehouse objects in integrated scenarios:
  1. InfoObjects with master data and hierarchies

    The Environment function allows you to maintain managed InfoObjects and fields referring to BW managed InfoObjects.

  2. Data Store Objects (Advanced)

    The Model BW function allows you to maintain managed ADSOs and to refer to BW managed DSOs and ADSOs.

  3. InfoCubes

    The Model BW function allows you to refer to BW managed InfoCubes.

  4. BW Queries

    The Query function allows you to maintain managed queries and to refer to BW managed queries.

  5. Process Chains

    Process chains are generated automatically to control the vertical parallelization of functions involved in an activity.

  6. Open ODS Views

    Open ODS views are generated automatically on top of nearly all functions to enable the analytic report screen.

  7. Data Transfer Processes

    The Data Transfer Process can be used to store data in BW objects.

  8. Characteristics-based Authorization

    BW characteristics-based authorization is used to secure and restrict access to data (for example, by legal entity or product group).

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Integration

The solution reuses the following SAP Business Planning and Consolidation objects, including the relevant applications for managing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation objects:

  1. Planning Application Kit (PAK)

    The Writer function allows you to hand results to the SAP HANA-based planning engine buffer. These results can then be reviewed by a user before deciding to save the data. For more information, see Analytics Component.

    The Writer function also allows you to store results using the SAP HANA-based planning engine directly in a BW Object. For more information, see Model Writer.

SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office Integration

Since SAP Profitability and Performance Management uses a lot of BW capabilities, it also uses all interfaces for a comprehensive SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office integration.

In the same way as in the web-based Reporting & Simulation application, it is possible to trigger writer functions of the BW write type “Planning” directly from SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office, and it is also possible to report and input data from Analysis for Office. For more information, see Analytics Component.

Related Information

For more information about SAP Profitability and Performance Management functions, see Functions.

For more information about InfoObjects, see Environment InfoObjects.

For more information about Data Store Objects (Advanced) and InfoCubes, see Model BW.

For more information about BW queries, see Query.

For more information about process chains, see Parallelization and Partitioning.

For more information about open ODS views, see Analytics Component.

For more information about HAP-based BW data transfer processes, see Model Writer.

For more information about characteristics-based authorization, see Roles and Authorizations.