What's New in the SAP BusinessObjects Intercompany User Guide

Links to information about the new features and documentation changes for SAP BusinessObjects Intercompany.

What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Intercompany 10.0 Support Package 17 Patch 3 (July 2017)
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New user profiles related to Personal Data Modifications Functions by user profile
The chapter "Changing your user information" has been updated to include the logging of personal data modifications. Viewing and modifying your personal data
What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Intercompany 10.0 Support Package 17 (November 2016)
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You can now create multiple connections to SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation data sources Creating multiple connections to SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation
When importing several balance or invoice files concurrently in Intercompany, the files are processed in parallel. This increases the efficiency of the intercompany reconciliation process. A new Import/Export setting, Allow Import Running in Parallel, allows concurrent data imports of balance and invoice files, as long as the Intercompany reconciliation process is running. It is deactivated by default. To activate parallel file processing when importing files
To manage the performance impact on the Intercompany application and database servers, it is now possible to specify an upper limit for the number of invoice and balance imports that can run in parallel using the Maximum Number Of Parallel Imports control on the Start of the navigation pathAdministration Next navigation step Settings Next navigation step Import/Export settingsEnd of the navigation path page.

Importing data

You can now choose not to display the Currency Translation in the page where you create a new balance, using the new option Transaction currency manually filled when entering a balance in “Start of the navigation pathAdministration Next navigation step Settings Next navigation step Metadata SettingsEnd of the navigation path.  

It is now possible to create user profiles and define rights of each user profile in addition to the six default existing ones. You can modify the rights in the six default user profiles, except for the User Right “Administrator”, which must always have all the rights.

User profiles

You can now define who will receive the summary email, via a new functional right proposed in the user profile.

Automatic summary emails

A monitoring dashboard has been implemented in order to help supervisors monitor the reconciliation process.

The Dashboard

What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Intercompany 10.0 Support Package 11 (October 2013)
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Partners can now add comments to invoices. Invoice comments
A new option is available in the Invoice Settings to allow partner comments.

If this option is enabled, a new report column, Comment Last Modified By , becomes available for the report Unassigned Unreconciled Invoices - All Fields. The column specifies who last modified the comment: the Partner or the Company.

Creating balances by importing or creating invoices
A new option, Automatically reconcile companies flagged as "Non Intercompany", is available in the Forced Reconciliation Settings page, enabling you to automatically reconcile balance amounts with companies designated as non intercompany. Setting up the forced reconciliation process
A new property, Non Intercompany entity, is availalable on the company properties page. When this option is enabled, each balance entered against this company is automatically reconciled.
Note This property is only available if the Administration option Automatically reconcile companies flagged as "Non Intercompany" is enabled.
Company properties
A new option, Remember last user selections in import pages, is available in the Import/Export settings page. When this option is enabled, the last selections you made on the invoice or balance import pages are saved, and are automatically filled in for you the next time you perform an import. Remembering previously specified selections in import pages
What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Intercompany 10.0 Support Package 06 (February 2012)
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Added information to the documentation on the following new profiles:

  • Application Administrator
  • User Administrator
Functions by user profile
Read-only access to company details can be given to all users. Access to company details
Thousand separators can now be activated on Import pages as well as Export pages. Thousand separator symbols
What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Intercompany 10.0 Support Package 02 (April 2011)
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A new topic on template field sizes has been added to the documentation. Field sizes for invoice and balance templates
Added information to the documentation on the Divide Exported Amounts by a Thousand option. To set the SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation parameters
What's New in SAP BusinessObjects Intercompany 10.0 Support Package 01 (February 2011)
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The Allow Export of Unfrozen Company Balances option has been added. Exporting balance amounts to SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation
InStart of the navigation pathAdministration Next navigation step Settings Next navigation step SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation SettingsEnd of the navigation path, the setting Transaction Currency Code has been renamed Transaction Currency Dimension Code To set the SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation parameters
The following report styles have been renamed:
  • Normal is now Report Parameters
  • Headings is now Column Headers
  • High is now Aggregated Rows
  • Medium is now Detailed Rows
Report interface styles
Some columns of information in the user and account import files must use the English terms. Files for importing users and accounts