This book serves as an authoritative guide to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, and helps you understand its features, functions, implementation, and integration with other SAP components and applications. Beyond exploring the product’s functional detail, you will learn best practices for budgeting planning, forecasting, and consolidation. You’ll understand how SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation works for the NetWeaver platform, and discover how it integrates with SAP ERP Financials and Financial Supply Chain Management, SAP NetWeaver BW, and other SAP components to provide a complete solution for planning and consolidation in an SAP landscape. In addition to the core topics related to planning and consolidation, you’ll also benefit from additional coverage of reporting and statutory compliance, predictive analysis, and a brief look at the future direction of the larger-scale enterprise performance management solutions offered by SAP.
Written in an easily approachable style, this book is a must-have for executives, finance professionals, consultants, and SAP implementation team members looking for a solid overview of what SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation can do for your enterprise.
Topic Highlights
- Planning and consolidation
- Collaboration
- Integration with SAP NetWeaver
- Loading and managing
- Process management
- Business logic and BPC
- Application modeling with BPC
- Data scheduling
Sridhar Srinivasan is a solution architect for Zebra Consulting, Inc., in Houston, Texas. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the College of Engineering in Guindy, Chennai, India. He graduated from the Master of Business Administration program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business with a specialization in finance. Sri has over two decades of experience in information technology and has been working with SAP products since 1995. He is certified by SAP AG for the SAP BuinessObjects Business Intelligence and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) products. He has been directly involved with implementations of solutions in these areas for clients in the United States and has functioned as a lead consultant in managing the entire lifecycle of SAP BPC project implementations, from the project preparation phase through post-implementation support. His expertise is in the functional, technical, and project management areas of the implementation. Sri lives with his family in Houston, Texas. He can be reached at sri.srinivasan@zebraconsultinginc.com.
Kumar Srinivasan is a senior business intelligence/SAP business planning and consolidation consultant for Zebra Consulting, Inc., in Houston, Texas. He holds a master’s degree in finance from Loyola College in Chennai, India. He is also a certified cost accountant. Kumar has almost two decades of experience in information technology and has been working with SAP products since 1999. He is certified by SAP AG for the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) products. Kumar has expertise providing solutions in the areas of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW), SAP Business Planning and Simulation (BPS), SAP BI Integrated Planning (BI-IP), and SAP BPC. He provides diverse solutions to clients in areas that cover both back-end configuration and development of front-end user interfaces. His articles on topics related to SAP NetWeaver BW and BPC have been published in “BWExpert.” Before working with Zebra Consulting, Inc., Kumar was employed with The World Bank as an information officer. During this time, he worked with relational database management systems, including Ingress, Informix, and Oracle. He also has extensive experience in the development of applications using messaging tools such as Lotus Notes. Kumar lives with his family in Cary, North Carolina. He can be reached at kshrini77@yahoo.com.
