SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 
Planning and Consolidation provides everything you need to meet your bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements, as well as complete consolidation and reporting through a single application and user interface.
Integration
There are two versions of the software: a version for the Microsoft platform and a version for SAP NetWeaver. While this application help focuses on the Microsoft platform version, there may be some notes related to the SAP NetWeaver version. You can ignore these notes.
Certain client components are integrated with Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, and Excel). Other client components are based on Windows or Web technologies.
Features
The SAP Library documentation for the system includes:
Getting Started — Describes the connection wizard and other logon tasks, the interfaces available (Administration, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Web), how to set the overall language for the system, and where to find more information, specifically, technical information.
Administration — Provides instructions for administrators about setting up and maintaining Planning and Consolidation applications.
Data Management — Provides instructions about moving data into and out of the system, and about copying and moving data within and across applications.
Business Process Flows — Provides information about using Business Process Flows (BPF). For information about setting up BPFs, see the Administration section.
Reports and Input Schedules — Provides instructions about building, distributing, and publishing reports, and about collecting data and submitting it to the database using input schedules.
Journals — Provides information about creating and posting journal entries to adjust data in the database.
Functions Reference — Provides reference information on using the Planning and Consolidation functions in your reports and input schedules.