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 SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, everything you need to meet your

bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements, as well ascomplete consolidation and reporting is available through a single unified application

and user interface which is tightly integrated with the MS Office suite.

Key Features and Benefits

• SAP BPC is an unified Enterprise Performance Management

(EPM) application that leverages a centralized performance database, common user

interface (Excel), and single sign-on across the whole of the EPM processes it supports

(including statutory consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, planning, reporting,

analysis, predictive analytics, scorecarding, and dashboards)

• SAP BPC is a real-time solution that provides business users rapidly with immediate

access to action-oriented, significant and decision-making information, and allows

users to dynamically view changes to plans, forecasts, budgets, and reports

• SAP BPC leverages the full extent of corporate intelligence,

incorporating bothstructured data (database-driven) and unstructured

data (employee-driven) to provide the "story behind the numbers" for transparency

required by the financial community (analysts, investors) and third parties

• SAP BPC leverages the power of Microsoft Excel on an enterprise-scale, transforming

Excel from a personal desktop tool into a collaborative, enterprise-scale EPM solution

that provides users with a familiar, intuitive, readily accepted environment

• SAP BPC lets administrators build and maintain SAP BPC applications using Microsoft

Excel as the easy-to-use interface for all administrative tasks. The SAP BPC customer

obtains full ownership of the solution

• SAP BPC's fully web-based architecture provides universal access, allowing people

at any level (including ‘non-linked' subsidiaries) to participate in the strategic

consolidation, budgeting, reporting and other processes. SAP BPC's unified, web-

based architecture allows for zero-footprint, ultra-fast deployment, scalable to the

hundreds

•Integration with your existing SAP and non-SAP source systems is seamless

Application SetsAn application set is a group of applications. An application set contains a set of dimensionsthat may be shared among its applications.ApplicationsAn application is a functional unit used for a particular purpose (for example: financeapplication, sales application). Applications may share dimensions with other applicationswithin the same application set, or have dimensions that are unique.DimensionsDimensions consist of members. If the members of the dimension are arranged in ahierarchical order, the relationship between members is described with terms such as Parent ,Child, and Sibling.PropertiesDimension members are described by properties.DataData is described by dimension members.