SAP BPC documents

Hello,
If anyone please provide documentation on SAP BPC overview ? I tried in google and there is all documents belongs technical part.
We want BPC functional flow against the SAP FICO,PS and other functional modules.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Vivek,
I am also interested in material and i have also send you a test mail.
Regards,
Sahil

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Hello,
I have to do an upgrade document about an outlooksoft 5.0 SP2 to SAP BPC 7.0 SP4 in a cluster system.
It has 2 front-ends (IIS cluster windows) & 2 back-ends (SQL Cluster).
We are going to do first the migration in 1 node, and then in another. The first upgrade in the first node I understand. I uninstall outlookdoft 5.0, install SAP BPC 7.0 SP4 and then restore the backup of the Appset, and do the posts upgrade action of the Dimension TIME.
But in the second, what do we do??? I uninstall outlookdoft 5.0, install SAP BPC 7.0 SP4 and then what??? Do I have to restore the backup of the Appset again???
I need help.
Best regards.
Pablo Mortera.

Hello,
On the second cluster node, you have only to install the software, nothing related to the appset. If you alreay run the migration stepts for the appset, all the information are into daatbase and file server.
However, the normal behaviour is to make the installation on the both nodes, make the basic tests to validate the installation and then proceed with the appset migration.
Best regards,
Mihaela

Transport Control in SAP BPC 7.0 M

Hi,
We are an IT company with more than 250 reporting units. We intend to implement SAP BPC 7.0 M in our organisation to unify our forecating and reporting process across reporting units. I gather that there is no transport tool available in BPC to transport from development to quality to production. I am curious to know if SAP has provided a best practice for controlling changes to production. What is the best method to ensure that an administrator or a developer does not incorrectly make changes in the production system?
Also how do we convince our internal infra guys that changes have to be made directly in production? We have a central team for remote hosting all our systems and they have raised some following questions related to the security/disaster recovery aspects.
a. What is the backup and recovery procedure in case something happens to the production system.
b. Is there a best practice that I could refer to with respect to transports to convince them.
I am trying to prepare a document to convince them. I have got come inputs from sdn but I would really like an authoritative source to better understand this. Any answers/help would be highly appreciated!
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Hi Shivram,
for diaster recovery, you can just use the backup/restore functionality in BPC server manager. Where an admin can schedule it. Even you can use the SQL backup functionality, but if you use this you need to manually backup the fileshare folder.
Regarding Transports, yes when the project is already in production, it is a bit dangerous to use the backup/restore functionality as we will loss the production system data. So need to use the dev/QA system to develop and test it and later do the changes manually in production system. Before take a backup of production system, then you will be safe.
regards,
Sreedhar

SAP BPC Consolidations vs SEM-BCS

Hi all,
Has anyone compared the features/functionalities of SAP BPC Consolidation with SEM-BCS consolidation? What are the advantages of BPC Consolidation over SEM-BCS, and vice-versa? For a brand new implementation, what is the preferred tool?
Thanks,
Sujoy Banerjee

Hi Sujoy,
In general if you are starting out with a new implementation, BPC is the recommended solution for several reasons:
1) It's a unified solution offering both Consolidations and Planning
2) It's designed to be owned and managed by business users, not IT
3) It's integrated with the Enterprise Performance Management for Finance suite, which also includes profitability and strategy management
If however you need support for complex consolidation scenarios, such as legal consolidations, you may want to consider BCS.
You should be able to find several documents comparing the two solutions if you go the Support Center (https://websmp104.sap-ag.de/support) and do a document search on BPC vs. BCS.
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Can any one explain me consolidation topic in sap bpc ?

hi
please explain me consolidation
can any one explain me consolidation topic in sap bpc
thank you .......
suresh

Hi Sures,
It's like can you explain BPC ?
Do search on scn.
Refer below links, may be helpful,
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/7070134c-1b04-2d10-f29d-bbb35abfa119?QuickLink=index&…
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SAP-BPC Faq's

Hi Experts,
This is Arjun i am new to BPC Could you please help me to provide some BPC Documents and BPC Faq's ,as soon as possible
Thanks in advance,
Arjun.

Hi Arjun,
You will get lot of BPC related guides and documents on the following links
http://help.sap.com/content/bobj/sbu/docu_sbs_bpc_design.htm
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/advancedsearch?query=bpc#sdn_content_category_value_library
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How to Run Allocation in Outlooksoft Everest 4.2 or SAP BPC 5.1

Hello,
Currently we use OS Everest 4.2 and we are in the Process of installing SAP BPC 5.1. We haven't used OS or BPC for allocation. I am trying to find a document that helps us guide through the process of creating a Allocation rules / formulas.
We found a Allocation Manual in Old Outlooksoft Support site and tried using it but it doesn't work or may be I am doing something wrong.
This is a Sample Allocation formula that we were just trying to see if it works.
*RUNALLOCATION
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*ENDALLOCATION
*COMMIT
It gives us an error shown below when validating the Logic: shown below
Update Excel file to Server
Getting formulas
Creating LGF file
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If you have any documents that will show the step by step instructions on how ALLOCATION works and how to implement, please send it. I didn't find any thing in the helpfile. Its very difficult to figure out without any documentation.
I would appreciate any help.. Thanks a lot !!!

First of all, I am feeling for you. It is very hard situation that thousand of users has own local "MyDocument" folder in local PC.
Folder structure between 5.1 and 4.2 is almost identical. Only difference is name of folder in My Documents. It was "Everest" in 4.2 but "OutlookSoft" in 5.1.
And there is couple more differences but it is going to recover automatically. Something like dimension cache, appinfo archive.
So, I like to suggest rename current "Everest" to "OutlookSoft" in My Documents. And do some test. I think biggest issue of here is report functionality between two versions.
At least, simple rename procedure is much easier than copy all reports to correct path.
I'm praying for your luck.

Consolidation for SAP BPC

HI Gurus,
I have gone through the documentation provided by SAP for SAP BPC Admin document
which just talks about the various business rules available for consolidation.
Can someone o explain in brief the sequence steps that one needs to follow for consolidation? (e.g. First develop the dimensions - account, entity, etc., then application - finance, rate, ownership, then set up the consolidation rules, then methods, then automatic adjustment detail etc.)
Also it will be helpful if someone can actually describe the required properties in each dimension to perform consolidation?
(e.g. Account needs to have ElimAcc for Eliminations etc.)
Regards
kishan

Hi Kishan,
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                      2.Rate----
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these are the basic requirements for legal Consolidation.
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                                       3.Load the Appset and Application Parameters.
                                       4.Customizing the Logic(We have the existing logic in BPC-BI use that Logic).
                                       5.Reports are based on your need.
If your an Finance background you should have known the steps to process the logic i.e sequence of steps.....if not reply me i will let you know..
Hope these helps you...
have a nice day......
Regards,
Naresh.K

SAP BPC Requirment Gathering Templetes

Hi Experts,
I am part of a SAP BPC Implementation Team, we are in the requirment gathering phase right now, it is a Financial planning and consolidation project.
I ask your kind self to post me the Templetes and Checklist that could help me in the requirment gathering.
I would appreciate you if you would post the document which are required for Requirments gathering at
stevehunt dot bpc at gmail dot com .
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Steve

Hi Peri,
Different companies use different charts of accounts and the intercompany group of accounts have to be confirmed by customers finance.
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Why not displayed new member in dimension sap bpc?

Good day guys
I have the following problem:
Add new members to a dimension but not displayed.
example: DIMENSION(inputcurrency) added MEMBER: MXN (Mexican Pesos); when I excel interface I can not see the new member, before this process the dimension and active AppSet.
that could be?
Use SAP BPC 7.5 SP8

Hi Bish,
Without processing a dimension the data should no go to the database. If you modify the the dimension and you want those new members in report you have to process that dimension. And if you save that dimension after modification its save the members in application sever. while retrieving the data it pick up from the database layer not from application layer, So the on fly calculation are stored in application layer( Like conversion files, Transformation files, script logics and Member formulas). So if you want the new members in report you have to process. Its by SAP design it self.
After modification of dimension no need to logoff and login every time. In order to avoid that option we have a anothe solution that is Activate Metadata Cache option.
In order to use that go to EPM--> User OPtions---> Activate metadata Option
You can clear the metadata cache. When the cache is cleared, the structure of the data source you are connected to is synchronized with the structure copied locally; which means that the members of dimensions that have been added, modified or deleted in the data source are loaded.
For more details related to Metadata option go to the EPM 10 Office Addin User Guide document which is available in google free of cost
Regards,
Saida Reddy G

SAP BPC AUTHORISATION

Dear all,
I am seeking documents or step by step guide on SAP BPC overview and SECURITY authorisation?
can someone advice where I can locate this information from?
thanks all,

http://service.sap.com/instguidescpm-bpc
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/wiki?path=/x/zb4
For BPC security.. please go through this link..
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/604e3755-ffd6-2a10-0eb4-cbdfbeda45d9#rating
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SAP BPC Training

Hello,
I am a new entrant to SAP world. I would interested in taking up SAP BPC as technology and learn. I downloaded the documents from SCN site, but unable to implement them or understand them unless there is a live environment or video sessions availble.
could some one route me to SCN video trainings on BPC module?
Thanks

Saraswathi,
I agree with Saida, your first step should be taking either the 410 (MS) or 420 (NW) Admin class.
Link to classes here. If you take the class you can use the environment provided otherwise you will either need to build one on a server or get access to a server which could be problematic.
In terms of videos, try this site.

Issue with Work status in SAP BPC 10.1 Unified Model

Hi Everyone,
I am are tying to setup work status functionality in SAP BPC 10.1 Unifed Model. But I am not getting any dimesions to select in the Owner dimension dropdown in the BPC Web Admin.
Is there any pre-requiste for setting up work status in Unified Model. Is there any document related to it? Any help would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Ramanathan

Hi Ramanathan,
Had the same problem when I began using 10.1 Embedded.
In BW you need to identify which infobject will be used as the "Owner Dimension" to control work status, access, etc.
To this infobject you must add an attribute to contain the string (userid in BPC) of the owner. The name of the infobject can be anything.
I used 0ORGUNIT as the "Owner Dimension" control infobject and added attribue ZBPCOWNR. I maintained ZBPCOWNR with the userid's.
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Once I added the attribute, maintained the attribute, and added the hierarchy I was presented with my choices in the dropdown boxes.
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SAP BPC - Formation - Need help

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First of all, I want to thank all people who will at least read my thread. I'm a junior consultant who need help on SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) - ex. OutllookSoft. So, if you have some tutorials, some documents, something that can help me to learn how to use SAP BPC, I will be very grateful to you. Up to now, I just read the "Help" of SAP BPC (OutlookSoft 4.2.419), the version I have to use. But it is just a technical help, I have nothing about the terms used (what is an application, a member, etc.), the philosophy of the tool, etc. To finish, if someone, from Paris (in France) is using this tool, I can pay him or her to form me on this tool.
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Best regards, Ivan.
PS: sorry for my English...

Hi,
You can go to
http://help.sap.com/
And navigate to SAP Business Objects -> EPM Solutions -> Business Planning and Consolidation.
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However, you will need S-user ID to ligon to SAP Marketplace.
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Restore the components as they were before in a Migration (SAP BPC) - DOC

Hello,
I am going to do a Migration from Outlooksoft 5.0 SP2 to a SAP BPC 5.1 SP6 in a productive instance (Cluster system) with 2 front-end & 2 back-ends and I wan to know if someone knows is there a way to do a good backup incase it turns out to be a failure in the migration, I want to have a restore document incase.
Does someone has this document. Does SAP has this document to restore the components as they were before?
Best regards...
Pablo Mortera.

HI Pablo,
Actually you are not performing a migration you are performing an upgrade.
You have to do backup of your appset.
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