Business Planning and Analytical Services
This documentation provides a starting point for the administration and optimal maintenance of the Business Planning and Analytical Services scenario. It contains BI-specific information about the tools available to administrators and the tasks to be executed either periodically or on demand.
For more
information about the IT scenario, see 
Business Planning and
Analytical Services.
For more
information about the general administration of BI systems, see BI (Business
Intelligence).
Integration
Note that the Business Planning and Analytical Services scenario requires tasks to be performed in other scenarios:
Enterprise Data Warehousing Scenario
For more
information, see Enterprise Data
Warehousing.
For information
relevant to the Business Planning and Analytical Services
scenario, see Monitoring and
Troubleshooting and Administration.
Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysis Scenario
For more
information, see Enterprise Reporting,
Query, and Analysis.
Business Planning Scenario Variant
IT Process |
Further Information |
Designing a Query and Designing a Web Application |
For more
information, see |
Embedding Queries, Query Views and InfoProviders and Designing a Workbook |
For more information, see
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Analysis Process Design Scenario Variant
IT Process |
Further Information |
Designing a Query and Designing a Web Application |
For more
information, see |
Tasks
Business Planning Scenario Variant
Tasks on Demand
The most important administration tasks that are to be executed on demand are listed below:
Tasks |
Further Information |
Define JCo destination (BI Integrated Planning) |
To be able to use the planning modeler from BI Integrated Planning as a Web-based application that is installed on the SAP J2EE Engine, the system automatically creates, with the help of the template installer, the following JCo destinations in the Web Dynpro Content Administrator of the SAP J2EE Engine: ● BI_MODELDATA ● BI_METADATA ● WD_ALV_MODELDATA_DEST ● WD_ALV_METADATA_DEST The BI_METADATA and WD_ALV_METADATA_DEST JCo destinations have the connection type Dictionary Meta Data; BI_MODELDATA and WD_ALV_MODELDATA_DEST have the connection type Application Data. For more information, see SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® BI Integrated Planning ® Define JCo Destinations. |
Configure JVM settings (BI Integrated Planning) |
Configure all systems (including the portal) with the settings for the Java Virtual Machine recommended in SAP Note 723909. |
Assign portal roles (BI Integrated Planning) |
For users to be able to call the tools for business planning as an iView in the portal, you must assign them the portal role com.sap.ip.bi.business_planning_showcase in the Portal Content Directory (PCD). For more
information, see |
Settings for starting the planning modeler from transaction RSPLAN (BI Integrated Planning) |
Specify which J2EE installation is to be used to start the Planning Modeler or the Planning Wizard from transaction RSPLAN. You can choose from: ● Portal J2EE server that is also used as the BEx Web server (default setting) ● Add-In J2EE installation ● J2EE installation that is defined using an arbitrary URL. If you choose this option, you have to specify a URL prefix using the format <protocol>://<host>:<port>. For more information, see SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® BI Integrated Planning ® Settings for Starting the Planning Modeler. |
Settings for lock management |
The common lock management of BI Integrated Planning and BW-BPS ensures that transaction data within a planning application is protected against changes by other users. You can make your own settings for storing these locks. They are described using selection tables. For more information, see SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® BI Integrated Planning ® Settings for Lock Management (or transaction RSPLSE). |
Release function modules for formulas |
This activity allows you to specify which function modules can be called from the formula editor for planning. For more information, see SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Customizing Implementation Guide ® SAP NetWeaver ® Business Intelligence ® BI Integrated Planning ® Release of Function Modules for Formulas. |
Activate Web services (BW-BPS) |
You activate the
Web services used by the Status and Tracking System for BW-BPS (see |
User maintenance and distribution by e-mail (BW-BPS) |
To use the automatic e-mail notification system of status management for BW-BPS, you have to maintain the e-mail address in the user data of the people to be notified. For more
information about User Maintenance (transaction SU01), see |
Authorization maintenance |
In the User
Maintenance (transaction SUI01), you also have to assign the required
authorizations for the various user types. For the Status and Tracking system
of BW BPS, these are authorizations for technical administrators, owners and
planning coordinators (see |
Tasks Performed Regularly
The following tasks are performed regularly:
Tasks |
Further Information |
Process chain maintenance |
You can schedule planning sequences to be processed in the background as a step in a process chain (special process type Execute Planning Sequence). For more
information, see |
Analysis Process Design Scenario Variant
Tasks on Demand
The most important administration tasks that are to be executed on demand are listed below:
Tasks |
Further Information |
Monitor analysis runs |
You can monitor
your analysis runs in the Analysis Process Monitor. For more information, see
Job Overview in |