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what is the difference between BW 3.5 BPS and SEM BPS 4.0

Former Member
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Currently we are on BW 3.5 and have plans to work with BPS but don't know the difference between BW 3.5 BPS and SEM 4.0.

Can anybody tell / explain what are the differences between the two BPS versions and reasons for using BW BPS or SEM BPS?

thanx in advance

Tom

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BW 3.5 BPS does not include the planning applications, like SEM BPS does.

For example: BPS contains applications for financial planning, these are not included in BW BPS

Message was edited by: Maik Burbach

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The planning applications (starting with 4*) are only used as examples or a starting point. It is not like BW business contents where FI contents such as GI, AR, AP, CCA, PCA, etc. match about 80%+ of your needs.

Those sample application was occassionally useful when you need to run initial workshops and get the users to make some choices early on in the project and they need to see something to help them visualize.

The reasons that it is not available in BW-BPS 3.5 is that some of those sample planning applications do use some of those 10 planning functions that did not get over to BW-BPS and that some of them was done a while back in SEM-BPS 3.0 or 3.1. We had tried some transports from a SEM-BPS 3.1 system to a BW-BPS 3.5 system but it did not work so it was easier to create some prototypes quickly for the workshop rather than spending a lot of time on it with potentially no results.

Have commented to several people within SAP that it might be nice to have some of those planning applications (collected without the unavailable 10 planning functions) as a set of transports or included in upcoming support packs.

Former Member
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Hi Mary,

Where can i find more information about these "10 planning functions" which are missing in BW-BPS.

Will BW-BPS include the following?

- P&L Planning

- Balance sheet Planning

- Investment Management Planning

- Liquidity planning functions

thanks.

Harsha

Message was edited by: Harsha Senanayake

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Those are sample scenerios rather then BPS.. No, those sample contents are only in SEM-BPS.

There are some product marketing documents but basically they are the financial type functions such as allocation, IRR, NPV, time lag, etc...

Mary

former_member93896
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Harsha,

please have a look on the SAP Service Marketplace:

http://service.sap.com/bi > SAP BW-BPS > Further Information > Planning functions in BPS (SAP BW and SAP SEM)

Regards,

Marc

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If you have installed SEM add-on already, you are on the SEM track where

BW 3.0 with SEM 3.1

BW 3.1-3.3 with SEM 3.2 or SEM 3.5

BW 3.5 with SEM 4.0

If you upgraded your BW to 3.5, if you have SEM already you have to upgrade your SEM to 4.0. No choice about it.

You can only have BW-BPS 3.5 if you have not installed the SEM add on before and only have BW. If you upgrade to BW 3.5 and get BW-BPS, you can later install the SEM add ons if you need BCS, CPM or SEM-BPS functions.

The difference between SEM-BPS 4.0 and BW-BPS 3.5 is about 10 planning functions, mostly in the financial area, that was not migrated to BW-BPS 3.5. If you need functions such as allocation or account based currency translation, you need SEM-BPS 4.0. Also BW-BPS seems to have a new forecasting function and some improved status and tracking. The full list of function differences can be found comparing documentation or from product marketing whitepapers avaiable on SDN or ASUG.

Have been using BW-BPS recently after close to 3 years of SEM-BPS and have not notices any major differences other than some more SPs and notes and the missing function which I only really miss allocation but can work around with copy, distribution and delete.

Hope this helps,

Mary

Mary

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Hi Tom,

take a look to https://websmp104.sap-ag.de/bw in SAP BW Business Planning and Simulation -> Further Information... then check these docs:

BW-BPS: Planning with SAP NetWeaver

Bus. Planning in SAP BW 3.5 - SEM-BPS transition to BW-BPS

Enhancements BW-BPS (formerly SEM-BPS) in SAP NetWeaver 04

Hope it helps!

Bye,

Roberto