Appraisal Form and Balanced Scorecard Integration

Dear Experts,
We are using an SAP R/3 4.7 system where we are running the Objective Settings and Appraisals. The requirement is to fetch the objectives stored in the Balanced Scorecard for the concerned org. unit; into the appraisal form, so as to allow the appriasee to choose from the Balanced Scorecard objectives as KRAs.
What are the steps required to do so? How do I integrate SAP R/3 HR PMS and Balanced Scorecard.
Edited by: AXE on Jul 7, 2009 11:48 AM

Balance Scorecard is part of SEM-CPM (Strategic Enterprise Management - Corporate Performance Management).
You need to extract the data from HR into BW and the data resides in infocubes.
You need to use these infocubes in order to populate data in Balance Scorecard.
Regards,
Ravi

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