November 2021:
For the updated maintenance strategy for the BPC product suite, please see https://blogs.sap.com/2021/11/26/sap-business-planning-and-consolidation-sap-bpc-strategy/
SAP follows a cloud first strategy for planning. This explicitl...
Your planners like Microsoft EXCEL? They praise its transparency of data, its visualization capabilities and functional richness. And they ask for your help when they find their data is outdated or they get lost in too many sheets and versions whil...
This blog is part of a blog series.ScopeThe business user executes the guided planning procedure.RoleLOB userUser interfacedifferent end user tools (to show the options; could as well be done in one envionment)When the LOB user logs on to the BPC hom...
This blog is part of a blog series.ScopeAn business process flow (BPF) is defined.RoleLOB expertUser interfaceBPC admin UI (HTML5)Back to the administration, we now create a process template. First we assign name and description. Then we specify 'cal...
This blog is part of a blog series.ScopeAn input form is created.RoleLOB expertUser interfaceBPC admin UI (HTML5)This time we switch to the BPC library to create a new input form. After specifying the name (00:20) we select the BW query out of the li...
Hi Sri,in theory this should work, but I have not seen really so far.Knowing that STS led to some issues on BW-IP in the past and knowing that BPF are explicitly adapted to work on BW-IP and knowing that BPF is nícely integrated into BPC and knowing ...
Hi Sri, you can continue to use STS in context of BPC 10.1 'embedded' like you did before. The same feature-set and the same limitations apply. However you do not have any integration with the BPC user-interface or the 'business process flows'. In f...
Hi Vadim, we are aware that the modelling tools of BW do not nicely fit into the BPC product, e.g. BEX query designer. We aim to provide an end-2-end modling even for the 'emebedded' model within the BPC user experience. But as a LOB solution, the fe...
Hi Vadim,have you managed to create a reporting form based on a BEX query? I'd start with that first as it does not require the input enablement.For the input form you need an input enabled query, hence a planneable InfoProvider in BW (e.g. realtime ...
