1. The SAP® BusinessObjects™
Business Planning and Con-
solidation application, version
for the SAP NetWeaver®
technology platform, helps
you manage planning, bud-
geting, forecasting, and con-
solidation processes. It is
the only unified planning,
consolidation, and reporting
application that natively inte-
grates with SAP NetWeaver.
SAP Technical Brief
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Performance Management Solutions
SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation
Transforming your organization into a
more agile, aligned, and forward-looking
enterprise requires an application that
leverages open, scalable technology
and integration between data, process-
es, and people. For the many organiza-
tions using SAP® software that need
usable, adaptable performance manage-
ment solutions, improving performance
must begin with choosing the right tech-
nology that natively integrates with the
SAP NetWeaver® technology platform.
Bring Order to Business Planning
Business planning is often a chaotic
and ineffective process. Budgeting can
quickly deteriorate into a “spreadsheet
nightmare” when operations managers
submit unrealistic budgets, executives
change the figures, and version control
problems spin out of control. Statutory
consolidations can be equally problematic
when data is distributed across depart-
ments, systems, and countries.
The SAP BusinessObjects™ Planning
and Consolidation application, version
for SAP NetWeaver, is the only unified
planning, budgeting, forecasting, and
consolidation application designed spe-
cifically for you, the SAP software user.
You get support for:
• Business planning – Budgeting, sales
and revenue planning, capital expendi-
ture planning, headcount and staffing
planning, expense planning, and cash
flow planning
• Forecasting – Rolling forecasts,
continuous planning, and collaboration
• Consolidation – Intercompany matching
and reconciliation, intercompany
eliminations, currency translation,
allocations, management roll-ups, and
legal consolidation
• Financial reporting and analysis – Ad
hoc reporting and driver analysis
Key features include:
• Use of familiar applications, including
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and
Microsoft PowerPoint, to accelerate
user adoption
• Business process flows to help
complete work consistently across
the enterprise, thereby improving
budget cycle times and accuracy
• Intelligent action panes to guide
users, driving productivity, efficiency,
and effectiveness
• Automated consolidation that facilitates
compliance with all statutory, regulatory,
and financial reporting requirements
and organizations, including GAAP
and International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRS)
• Harmonized charts of accounts, auto-
mated processes, and a Microsoft
Excel interface to work with greater
accuracy and close the books faster
• Full audit trail to save time and costs
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation is one of the SAP
BusinessObjects enterprise performance
management (EPM) solutions that help
your company capitalize on the value of
your existing data assets. These solutions
can integrate with SAP Business Suite
software; SAP BusinessObjects
SAP® BusinessObjects™ PLANNING
AND CONSOLIDATION
VERSION FOR SAP NetWeaver®
SAP offers unified planning
and consolidation software
that helps streamline planning,
budgeting, and forecasting
and deliver a faster, more
compliant financial close.
As the only such application
built on the SAP NetWeaver®
technology platform, it
lets you leverage existing
technology investments
and skills.

2. party planning and consolidation appli-
cations that treat SAP NetWeaver BW
solely as a data source. And thanks to
tight integration with SAP NetWeaver,
the application can exploit integration
between SAP BusinessObjects EPM
solutions and SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver
BW, the SAP Solution Manager appli-
cation management solution, and the
change-and-transport system within
SAP NetWeaver, to name a few.
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP
NetWeaver, is built on SAP NetWeaver
BW and the SAP NetWeaver Application
Server (SAP NetWeaver AS) component.
So you can use this single platform for
both your enterprise data warehouse
and localized planning data marts. This
leverages your existing investments
and skill sets to further reduce cost of
ownership.
Technical Benefits
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP
NetWeaver, utilizes the following:
• Online analytical processing (OLAP)
engine in SAP NetWeaver BW
• Data dictionary for the ABAP™
programming language and the data
warehousing workbench
• Process chains
• The change-and-transport system
within SAP NetWeaver
• SAP NetWeaver AS
• SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
Accelerator software, an optional
component purchased separately
business intelligence (BI) solutions;
SAP BusinessObjects information
management solutions; and SAP
BusinessObjects governance, risk, and
compliance solutions. As a result, you
can maximize business profitability;
manage risk and compliance; and
optimize corporate systems, people,
and processes.
Architecture
With SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation, version for SAP
NetWeaver, SAP has made significant
investments in a solution architecture
that is user centric while upholding the
SAP IT value proposition (see figure).
The application is tightly integrated with
the SAP NetWeaver Business Ware-
house (SAP NetWeaver BW) component
and the SAP ERP application. It takes
advantage of the same application and
database servers your current infra-
structure runs on to significantly reduce
your total cost of ownership (TCO)
over any competing solution. Standard-
ized SAP software components further
lower TCO as additional SAP software
is deployed.
Because it’s built on SAP NetWeaver,
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation can leverage SAP
NetWeaver BW to read and write data.
This is a great advantage over third-
Figure: Architecture
Client
Administrator
Microsoft Office
(Excel, Word,
PowerPoint)
Web Other
HTTP/SOAP1
Internet information server and Microsoft .NET application server
Web services
Conversion and application services
Remote function calls
SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse component (ABAP™ application server)
Application logic
SQL4
Database In-memory
MDX2
query
language
SAP NetWeaver Business
Warehouse Accelerator
SAP NetWeaver Business
Warehouse OLAP3 engine
Relational database
(any that SAP NetWeaver supports)
File
storage
1 Simple Object Access Protocol
2 Multidimensional Expressions
3 Online analytical processing
4 Structured Query Language

3. The application delivers:
• A client for “zero footprint” collabo-
ration, data collection, budgeting,
reporting, analysis, and report
distribution
• A native interface to Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Word, and Microsoft
PowerPoint
• Automatic routines for extracting,
transforming, and loading data from
SAP software and other data sources
New and Enhanced Features
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation 7.5, version for SAP
NetWeaver, includes the following new
features:
• Business process flows – Create
guided templates that drive consistent
planning and consolidation processes
across the organization
• Drill-through – Launch any targets
that can be accessed from a URL,
including SAP ERP via an Internet
transaction server (ITS); a Web
report generated by SAP Business
Explorer (SAP BEx) tools; or a report
generated by SAP BusinessObjects
BI solutions
• Microsoft Excel client enhancements
– Fully leverage the Excel ribbon for
quicker access to menus and tools
• Enhanced consolidation – Utilize a
new GUI-based dynamic hierarchy
editor and legal entity currency
conversion function to maintain legal
ownership structures more easily
• Integration with SAP BusinessObjects
BI solutions – Leverage Xcelsius®
software to create interactive
dashboards using data from SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Con-
solidation, allow users to create ad
hoc reports over the Web using SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®
software, deliver an intuitive interface
for exploring data and charts using
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
software, and more1
• New extensible business reporting
language (XBRL) functionality – Use
the SAP BusinessObjects XBRL
Publishing application by UBmatrix
for faster, easier compliance with
evolving regulatory requirements2
Available Languages
The languages supported include sim-
plified Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English, Finnish, French, German,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian,
Slovakian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Requirements
The following technical specifications are
required to run SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation 7.5, version
for SAP NetWeaver.
Server software requirements are:
• SAP NetWeaver AS, version for
ABAP
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or
2008
• Microsoft Internet Information
Services (IIS) 6.0 or 7.0
• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 or 2.0
• Microsoft XML Core Services
(MSXML) 3.0 SP1, MSXML 4.0 SP2
• Visual Basic 6 and Visual C++ run-
time libraries
• Any relational database supported
by SAP NetWeaver
• Any operating system supported
by SAP NetWeaver
• Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting
Library3
• Xceed Zip Compression Library, a
product of Xceed Software Inc.3
• Enhancement package 1 and service
package 5 or higher for SAP
NetWeaver BW 7.0
• SAP GUI 7.10
• PDF converter from Amyuni Technol-
ogies Inc.3
• Dundas Chart for ASP.Net4
• FarPoint Spread for Web Forms4
Client software requirements are:
• Microsoft Windows XP, Windows
Vista, or Windows 75
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or
later
• Visual Basic 6 and Visual C++ run-
time libraries
• Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007
• MSXML 3.0 SP1, MSXML 4.0 SP2
• Microsoft .NET 1.1 or 2.0
• Xceed Zip Compression Library3
Authentication
Microsoft Active Directory is a require-
ment for authentication.
Business planning is often
a chaotic, frustrating, and
ineffective process. Budget-
ing can quickly deteriorate
into a “spreadsheet night-
mare,” and version control
problems can spin out of
control.
1. Requires licensing of SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions
2. Requires licensing of the SAP BusinessObjects XBRL Publishing application by UBmatrix
3. Installed prior to the installation of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation; available from SAP
4. Third-party component installed during the installation of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
5. Support for Windows 7.0 planned for delivery in a service pack of the 7.5 release of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, subject to change

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Summary
The SAP® BusinessObjects™ Planning and Consolidation application, version for the
SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, brings agility to planning processes by helping you
plan, budget, and forecast more quickly and effectively. With support for financial
consolidation, the software facilitates compliance with regulatory and financial reporting
requirements. As the only unified planning and consolidation application built directly
on SAP NetWeaver, it lets you leverage existing investments and skills.
Business Challenges
• Accelerate planning and budgeting processes and increase productivity
• Improve plan and forecast accuracy
• Model business strategies to maximize value creation
• Streamline the statutory consolidation process
• Keep compliance and auditing costs down
Key Features
• Business planning and budgeting – Support top-down and bottom-up planning and
budgeting, leading to timely, more accurate plans aligned with strategic goals
• Forecasting – Enable continuous planning and rolling forecasts to meet changing
business conditions
• Reporting and analysis – Generate production and management reports (including
exception reports) on the fly
• Consolidation – Fulfill legal and management consolidation and reporting requirements
for a faster, more compliant close
Business Benefits
• Reduce cycle time in creating and approving budgets by enabling finance and
line-of-business managers to collaborate to align budgets
• Increase planning agility and accuracy via a unified solution that supports continuous
planning, rapid reforecasting, and standard processes
• Empower business users to own and modify common business processes without
IT help via a solution they can maintain themselves
• Increase productivity with native access to familiar tools such as Microsoft Office
• Minimize risk by enabling transparent financial reporting with a fully documented audit
trail from a single data repository
For More Information
Contact your SAP representative, or visit www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects
/large/enterprise-performance-management/planningandconsolidation/index.epx.
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