Overview

Application help for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP BW/4HANA, in a standard configuration.

Product Information

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 11.1, 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.

Administrators can configure the installation of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation in one of two ways:

  • 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 .

  • 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.

Note
Information within a single topic that differs between the configuration types is clearly explained within the relevant content.

Integration

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.

Recommendation

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.

Features

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.

To log on directly to a specific environment, enter http://<PC_server:port>/sap/epm/bpc/web/#<environment type>/<environment ID>, where <environment type> is classic for Business Planning and Consolidation environments in a standard configuration.
Note
Logging on directly to an environment works only when the authentication is done automatically. For example, the direct log on works when you have a logon ticket that was issued during a previous log on.