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fkatzdobler · 02-08-2024

IntroductionSeveral customers are currently reconsidering their planning architectures. If you are one of those, this blog might be interesting for you.Let’s start with some building blocks you will find in almost every planning application:FrontendD...

fkatzdobler · 02-16-2023

Introduction and Motivation Currently, there are different projects related to Integrated Business Planning ongoing. One motivation could be to have a successor for APO (Advanced Planning and Optimization). In case your system landscape contains a B...

fkatzdobler · 06-04-2022

Introduction The SAP Portfolio for planning is changing. The system landscape for reporting and planning is enhanced by SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Or maybe you are in the middle of a S/4 HANA project or a BW/4 project is going on. However your curre...

fkatzdobler · 09-16-2020

Requirement To implement a strategic planning solution is quite a common requirement. Usually the time horizon for strategic planning is 3-5 years. In contrast to operational planning it is also quite typical to plan in percentage rather than in abso...

Master Data Management with BPC Embedded · 07-28-2017

Requirement A typical requirement within a BW Project might be to offer Master Data Maintenance to End Users. E.g. to maintain specific global BW hierarchies. Overview of Possible Approaches In the following figure a compoarison between different app...

fkatzdobler · 02-09-2024

Hello @JefB !The roadmap item describes the possibility to store the SAC model in Datasphere. Will try this of course. But to the best of my knowledge this would not enhance the possibilities of the planning engine itself, because the possibilities f...

fkatzdobler · 11-13-2023

You could implement different options. In case you want to switch the frontend from Analysis for Office to SAC and reuse your datamodel in Business Warehouse, it is possible with the BPC Live Connection and the BPC Runtime License. In SAC you can st...

fkatzdobler · 11-10-2023

Hello! In SAP BW/4 you could continue your backend developments and work with the so Called BPC Live Connection and the BPC Runtime license if you plan to introduce SAC: https://blogs.sap.com/2022/08/23/introducing-bpc-runtime-license/ https://lau...

fkatzdobler · 02-16-2023

Well, that's an interesting point.Inside DWC things will not exist which are relevant, like BEx Queries for a retraction process.It depends which features will be available in DWC. Currently, I couldn't give an answer to an architecture with DWC inst...

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