Business Planning 
Purpose
Business Planning with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence allows Business Experts to accelerate the decision-making process, predict future trends on the basis of historic analyses, and provide all decision makers with a central point of access to data and information.
To create and use planning scenarios or other applications, Business Planning with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence offers the following planning tools:
· BI Integrated Planning, a solution that is completely integrated into the BI system
· BW-BPS (Business Planning and Simulation)
We recommend that you use the new BI integrated planning functionality when you implement new scenarios.
Business Planning
is part of the IT scenario Business Planning and Analytical
Services. For more
information, see 
Business Planning and
Analysis Services.
Integration
Note the following points on the two planning tools, BI integrated planning and BW-BPS:
· Both planning tools use the same data basis and can be operated in parallel in one system. It is not necessary to migrate existing planning applications.
· Some functions (such as, lock procedure and formulas) are used by both BW-BPS and BI integrated planning.
· In BI integrated planning, most of the BEx and OLAP analysis functions are also available with planning applications. In comparison with BW-BPS, you need a smaller number of objects (for example, by using the same variables in analysis and planning) and tools (Query Designer and Web Application Designer).
· Since a large number of BW-BPS concepts are also used in BI integrated planning (for example, planning levels, planning functions, planning sequences, characteristic relationships, data slices), you can, if necessary, switch to BI integrated planning from BW-BPS with minimal effort.
Features
Business Planning with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence covers processes that collect data from InfoProviders, queries or other BI objects, convert them using various methods, and write back new information to BI objects (such as InfoObjects or DataStore objects).
Using the Business Explorer for BI integrated planning allows you to build integrated analytical applications that comprise planning and analysis functionality.
For more information about planning tools, see:
Business Planning and Simulation (BW-BPS)