SAP BPC in more languages

Hello,
I wan to know if SAP BPC can have more than the english language. Not the SQL Server or the Windows.
WEe want to see the menus and the data in other language. Is it possible??
Thank you in advance.
Pablo Mortera.

When you install the BPC for Office client, you can select for about 7 different languages (of which english, german, french, etc) , the BPC menus and dialogs will then be presented in the selected language. If you want to change this language, you have to reinstall the client software.
If you want to use multiple languages descriptions for dimension members you can create multiple properties (DES_ENGLISH, DES_GERMAN, ETC) which can be used in reports for showing the descriptions in the desired language.
For one of my customers I created an 'language' cube, one of the dimensions reflects all user ID's. In this cube, they can store and change a default language per user. All input schedules and reports will then first lookup what the default language is for your userid and then using an evpro to retrieve the descriptions in your language.
Hope this helps,
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