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Announcing the availability of SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation 10.1 SP03

Stephane_Neufco
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
‎08-09-2016 4:31 PM


SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation 10.1 SP03

 

We continue to deliver on our goal to modernize and enlarge the scope of functionality of SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation. Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of release 10.1 support package SP03 on July 13, 2016. With this new product version you can:

  • Benefit from a smoother, more beautiful, rejuvenated HTML5 web user interface now upgraded to SAP Fiori 2.0 and providing additional capabilities such as manual journal entries and consolidations

  • Leverage the new Live package reconciliation and Live currency conversion features to help you streamline the intercompany reconciliation process

  • Reinforce your SOX compliance with a new User Management function which simplifies the external and internal auditability processes

  • Perform smart data management with the SAP HANA multi-temperature archiving of consolidated data

  • Get support for SAP HANA SPS11, Windows 10, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft SQL Server 2014, Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Office 2016


 

Enriched HTML5 web user interface for smoother web experience

 

In SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation 10.1 SP03, the overall HTML5 Web user interface is upgraded to SAP Fiori 2.0. All existing features have been enhanced. This version also delivers on new web capabilities.

Illustration: SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation 10.1 SP03 HTM5 web UI login page


 

 

[Enhanced] Home Page

  • New Consolidation section regrouping tiles for accessing consolidation features


 

[Enhanced] Packages




  • New criteria to sort the package list

  • Reworked package editor

  • Choose to refresh data manually or automatically

  • Multiply and divide displayed amounts by factors

  • Improved control widget

  • Improved multi-user support for simultaneous data entry by multiple users

  • Set variables when running schedules, including for hierarchical dimensions

  • Enter Group comments in packages

  • Display existing local manual journal entries within the package

  • Create new journal entries

  • Validate new journal entries using the control widget

  • Duplicate and delete journal entries

  • Publish the package from within the package editor


 

[Enhanced] Analysis Reports

  • Set variables when running reports, including for hierarchical dimensions

  • Display headers and footers in reports

  • Multiply and divide displayed amounts by factors


 

[New] Consolidations

  • Display and filter the list of existing consolidation definitions

  • Open consolidation definitions and display their details

  • Run full and incremental consolidations

  • Display progress bar when the process is running

  • Lock and unlock consolidation definitions


 

[New] Reconciliations

  • Display and filter the list of existing reconciliation definitions

  • Open reconciliation definitions and display their details

  • Run reconciliations

  • Display progress bar when the process is running

  • Lock and unlock reconciliations


 

[New] Notifications




  • Receive notifications when a task is finished (i.e. consolidations or reconciliations)


 

[New] Central Manual Journal Entries

  • Display and filter the list of existing ledgers

  • Display and filter the contents of ledgers

  • Create new journal entries

  • Validate new journal entries using the control widget

  • Post and unpost journal entries

  • Protect and unprotect journal entries

  • Duplicate, reverse and delete journal entries

  • Enter comments on manual journal entries


 

[New] Central Manual Journal Entries Import

  • Import journal entries from txt and csv files

  • Validate, post and protect journal entries after import

  • Display import results and analyze rejects


 

[New] Conversion Rates

  • Display and filter the list of existing conversion rate tables

  • Display conversion rate tables in read only mode

  • Display information on data


 

[New] Tax Rates

  • Display and filter the list of existing tax rate tables

  • Display tax rate tables in read only mode

  • Display information on data


 

[Optimized] HTML5 Performance

  • This support package introduces a series of HTML5 performance optimizations.



Illustration: SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation 10.1 SP03 HTM5 web UI home page


 


Live package reconciliation & Live currency conversion to streamline the I/C process


 


In SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation 10.1 SP03, two new features are available to help you streamline the intercompany reconciliation process. The Live package reconciliation has been developed to check the completeness and accuracy of intercompany positions in a package. There is no need anymore for running a specific reconciliation process to see the I/C counterpart information. Data entered by the partner are now directly visible within a package. In addition, the Live package currency conversion feature enables the end-user to convert package amounts into a chosen currency directly within the package, which was not possible previously. The illustration below shows how Dynamic package reconciliation / currency conversion are used in a package to display all counterparts in the partner local currency as well as converted in the entity currency.



Illustration: SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation Live package reconciliation


 

 

Other SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation 10.1 SP03 key new features


 

  • A new User Management feature is available to grant different sets of rights to the same user for multiple entities; this new function is the outcome of a Customer Connection Program with our main user groups

  • Our archiving tool is enhanced with SAP HANA multi-temperature archiving of consolidated data. Due to information life cycle management, customers often apply multi-temperature strategies, whereby data is classified by access frequency as either hot, warm or cold. Depending on this classification and data usage, this data is stored in different memory areas. In SP03 our archiving tool is able to automate the move of data from Hot to Warm, helping you to reduce TCO.


Platform support


SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation 10.1 SP03 supports the following platform and technologies:




  • SAP HANA SPS11

  • Windows 10

  • Microsoft Edge

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014

  • Microsoft Office 365

  • Microsoft Office 2016


 

More information

 

 

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