Xcelsius Dashboards in SAP Portfolio and Project Management
Xcelsius provides enhanced charting features. These charts can be embedded into the Portfolio Management
context using Business Context Viewer (BCV)
Customizing. Predefined Customizing is already delivered. You can modify your Customizing settings by using these predefined Customizing settings as examples.
Integration
The charts are populated by BCV search connectors. These search connectors configured for BCV queries are based on InfoSets. Xcelsius charts can be assigned to newly defined queries to display the charts.
Prerequisites
The required Customizing is available in BCV. For detailed information about BCV Customizing, see Configuring Business Context Viewer (BCV).
The mapping of financial views to chart views has been defined in Customizing for
SAP Portfolio and Project Management
under
Portfolio Management
Global Customizing
Portfolio-Independent Settings
Define Xcelsius Charts
Define Xcelsius Chart View Mappings
.
Features
You can use Xcelsius charts in Portfolio Management
to carry out financial analysis for buckets, items, and initiatives. You can call these charts up from the respective Portfolio Management
dashboards (see Dashboard in Portfolio Management) by choosing Reporting
, and from the object detail screens by choosing Reporting Cockpit
. The charts provide a comparison between the actual and planned costs recorded for that object. Furthermore, a detailed financial view based on distribution is displayed.
The following Xcelsius dashboards are available in the standard system:
Item Actual vs. Planned Cost
Initiative Actual vs. Planned Cost
Bucket Financial Analysis
In addition to this, overview charts for the analysis of financial data by timeline are available. For more information, see SAP Business Content for SAP BusinessObjects in SAP Portf. and Proj. Mgmt.
You can also define your own Xcelsius charts, if required.