Accelerated Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)

Reporting Using Virtual InfoProvider Jeffrey Holdeman

January 2013

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-23201

SAP Customer Solution Adoption (CSA)

Know-How Webinar Series Schedule

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Accelerated CO-PA Reporting Using Virtual InfoProvider Agenda

Overview

Current Challenges

Description and Features

Benefits

Implementation

Setup

Execution

Wrap Up

Further Information

Q & A

1

2

3

Overview Current Challenges

Description and Features

Benefits

Accelerated CO-PA Reporting Using

Virtual InfoProvider

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Are you spending critical Finance and IT time to attain

sufficient reporting and process performance ?

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Challenges in Finance and Controlling

Process performance

Running reports is performance intensive

and at certain times in the month impact

period end closing runtimes

Data volumes

Challenged by large volumes of data

Speed of analysis and reporting

Lack of easy access to finance and

controlling data results in poor cost control

Poor productivity

Currently many period end closes involve

laborious and time consuming processes

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SAP HANA™ Time Becomes Your Competitive Advantage

Run Bolder

Game changing innovation

Analytics, operations, AND performance mgmt in one

Innovative new business applications

Run Simpler

Streamlined IT landscape and reduced TCO

Groundbreaking functionality without disruption

Simple to deploy and without compromise

Run Smarter

Enables smarter business decision making

Increases visibility into massive amounts of data

Delivers real-time operational analysis and reporting

BICS SQL MDX SQL

SAP HANA

studio

Real–Time

Replication

Services

SAP

BusinessObjects

Data Services

SAP HANA appliance

SAP BusinessObjects Other Applications

SAP NetWeaver

BW

SAP Business

Suite 3rd Party

SAP HANA database

Calculation and

Planning Engine

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Accelerated CO-PA Reporting Using Virtual InfoProvider What is it? Description and Features

Description Features

InfoProvider that permits analysis and

reporting of the Profitability Analysis

data with the BI Suite of Tools

Offers a modern reporting interface using the SAP

BusinessObjects reporting tools or Business Explorer

(BEx) queries directly against the CO-PA data

The system automatically and

dynamically creates the InfoProvider

and the corresponding InfoObjects

using the definition of the CO-PA

Operating Concern

Transaction KEIP

Avoid the need for modeling of the InfoProvider in the

Data Warehousing Workbench (RSA1)

Works for both types of Profitability Analysis:

Costing-based and/or Account-based

The VIP is created in the embedded

BW platform within the ERP system

Does not require loading of data into a separate SAP

Business Warehouse

Acceleration through SAP HANA Using CO-PA Accelerator performance gains from HANA

The the Virtual InfoProvider does not address Enterprise Data Warehouse use cases,

so CO-PA reporting in a separate SAP BW instance may still be recommended.

What it is not?

What is it?

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SAP Virtual InfoProvider Gateway to modern BI UIs, reporting directly on ERP data using the embedded BW

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Virtual Info Provider Gateway to modern UIs, reporting directly on ERP data

Dashboards

Reporting

Ad-hoc OLAP

Analysis

Exploration

How do I visualize

key performance

indicators for

better decision

making?

How do I answer

ad hoc questions

and interact with

shared

information?

How do I find

immediate

answers to

business

questions?

How do I uncover

trends from

historical data and

make possible

better forecasts?

How do I turn data

into pixel-perfect

formatted reports

for greater

insight?

Virtual Info

Provider

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Accelerated CO-PA Reporting Using Virtual InfoProvider Summary of Benefits

Summary of Benefits

■ Automatic VIP generation in the embedded BW within the ERP system

■ Access to modern UI and BI reports directly on ERP data in near real time

■ Ability to use VIP from Business Explorer (Bex) without separate BW system

■ Report acceleration by reading data from SAP HANA in-memory database

■ Minimal setup of authorizations in SAP HANA Studio needed

■ Reuse master data and authorizations existing within ERP

■ No SLT replication of master data into SAP HANA required

■ Avoid data modeling in Information Composer or SAP HANA Studio or BW Data

Workbench

Implementation Setup

Execution

Accelerated CO-PA Reporting Using

Virtual InfoProvider

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SAP CO-PA Virtual InfoProvider Application Source Code

Transaction KEIP is used to generate the CO-PA Virtual InfoProvider

This function is delivered with the following Support Packages in the standard ERP

system:

SAP ERP

System

Enhancement

Package

Support

Package

ERP 6.0 SP21

ERP 6.0 EHP2 SP11

ERP 6.0 EHP3 SP10

ERP 6.0 EHP4 SP11

ERP 6.0 EHP5 SP08

ERP 6.0 EHP6 SP02

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SAP Notes for CO-PA Virtual InfoProvider

SAP Note 1627285 CO-PA Virtual InfoProvider

SAP Note 1679108 Error in the case of hierarchies in Virtual InfoProvider

SAP Note 1709531 KEIP Error R7 024 when generating Virtual InfoProvider

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SAP HANA CO-PA Accelerator Virtual InfoProvider

KEIP – Generate Virtual InfoProvider 1

RSA1 – Data Warehouse Workbench 2

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for Microsoft

Excel 4

Business Explorer Query Designer 3

Demo

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SAP CO-PA Virtual InfoProvider “One-click” Generation of BW objects

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SAP CO-PA Virtual InfoProvider Access to ERP data via Function Module

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SAP CO-PA Virtual InfoProvider BEx Query Designer, Connected directly to ERP data

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SAP CO-PA Virtual InfoProvider SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Connected directly to ERP data

Wrap Up Further Information

Q & A

Accelerated CO-PA Reporting Using

Virtual InfoProvider

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Accelerated CO-PA Reporting Using Virtual InfoProvider Further Information

• Product Information:

• SAP Note 1559994 Profitability Analysis with Accelerated CO-PA

• SAP Note 1632506 SAP ERP RDS for profitability analysis with SAP HANA

• SAP HANA CO-PA Accelerator Quick Guide

• SMP http://service.sap.com/rds-hana-copa

• http://www.saphana.com/ Resources HANA Solutions RDS – COPA Accelerator

• SAP Help on Profitability Analysis

• Blogs:

• SCN: http://scn.sap.com/people/jeffrey.holdeman/content

Further Information

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SAP CO-PA Accelerator Source Code

The CO-PA Accelerator source code is delivered with the following Support

Packages in the standard ERP system:

SAP ERP

System

Enhancement

Package

Support

Package

SAP ABAP

Basis

ERP 6.0 SP21 7.00 SP 26

ERP 6.0 EHP2 SP11 7.00 SP 26

ERP 6.0 EHP3 SP10 7.00 SP 26

ERP 6.0 EHP4 SP10 7.00 SP 10

ERP 6.0 EHP5 SP06 7.00 SP 09

ERP 6.0 EHP6 SP01 7.00 SP 01

Also required is SAP Kernel 7.20 (or 7.20 EXT) with at least patch level 90 and

at least HANA DBSL patch level 92

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Questions & Answers

Thank you

Contact information:

Jeffrey Holdeman Product Expert – Database and Technology (D&T) | SAP HANA | SAP Financials and CO-PA Accelerator

Customer Solution Adoption (CSA) | Technology and Innovation Platform (TIP)

SAP Labs, LLC | 3010 Highland Parkway, Suite 900 | Downers Grove, IL 60515

Jeffrey.Holdeman@sap.com

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