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Jun 08, 2018 at 04:23 PM

What is the future support roadmap for EVDRE in BPC products?

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There are several sources that suggest that *existing* EVDRE functionality is fully supported and there's no plans to deprecate them (e.g. 2648783)... yet the functions exist under an Excel function category labeled "EVFunctions (Deprecated)" (e.g. 1888246).

Some of our reports designed with EVDRE in an old version of BPC 7.0/7.5 MS are able to be loaded in BPC 10.0/10.1 NW (they may or may not have been sent through an EVDRE migration by the consultants). While they load, some EPM functions (e.g. Edit Report) are disabled for sheets with EVDRE. It's also now not possible to create new reports with EVDRE (I'm not sure why you'd want to try anyway if you're in BPC 10.0+).

We initially tried to switch from EPM to AO for the client interface, but the EVDRE reports would not load correctly in AO. By default, AO does not enable EVDRE support (2367364) but it seems that it's possible to override this and get it to work... for now.

With all of these things considered, it seems obvious that EVDRE support in current/future products is fading fast. With future potential upgrades to BPC Optimized or BPC 11.0 for BW/4HANA, the chances of supporting these EVDRE reports seem unlikely. Native EPM reports may not work in future releases for all we know.

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Is there clear direction documented of the future support of these EVDRE reports?

The same question can be asked of reports that are using EPM functions instead of native EPM report design. We had a lot of reports in 7.5 that used EV functions to manually build reports that were converted to EPM functions by project consultants during our migration (instead of using native EPM design). Is there a planned point where we will be forced to re-engineer/redesign these reports as well?

Rich