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Hi,
I would like to know what are the differences between BW-APO and Standard BW? I need to gather the Basic InfoObjects and Info Cubes for Demand Planning(DP)for Sales Data. Please advice what are the BC cubes can be used for DP for Sales Data?
When I execute transaction RSA1 in APO, I get all the features of BW like data modeling, Business content etc. Of course, DP will have many functionalities that won't be available in BW e.g. Planning Book etc.
Second part of the question is why should a customer implement separate BW and a separate APO system when BW features are available in APO? I appreciate your suggestions.
Thanks for your time

Hi dear,
the APO Shipment includes an embedded SAP BW which is mostly used for the SAP APO Demand Planning application.
An external SAP BW System integrated with SAP APO can be used as a reporting system if required.
Moreover, it is possible to use BW within the APO for reporting, however it might have some effects on the performance...so, the priority of reporting in the discussed environment has to be clearly defined.
There are several reasons why a customer wants to keep BW and APO as one instance.
One might be the lower investment; another one the reduction of complexity and maintenance.
If this is really the case depends very much on the reporting requirements. Thus it has to be checked how many users would work with the APO-system as BW-users. Since APO is designed and tuned for planning functions it is likely that a parallel tuning for the BW demands will contradict with the earlier made settings.
Two different instances for APO and BW is the recommended approach by SAP.
BW serves as a Data Consolidation and Reporting tool whereas APO is dedicated to specific planning functions. Information necessary for planning can be retrieved from BW using the DATAMART-Interface.
Hope it helps !
Bye,
Roberto

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