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SAP Solution Brief
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Performance Management Solutions
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, Version for the Microsoft
Platform

Unified Planning and
Consolidation

STrEAMlInE PlAnnIng AnD DElIVEr A
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CFOs and executive teams are under
great pressure to maximize profitability,
reduce costs, minimize risk, and improve
stakeholderconfidence. To be effective,
you need reliable, up-to-date financial and
operational data for planning purposes
as well as budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and statutory and management
reporting. You need to integrate corporate and departmental planning, model
cost scenarios, and perform sensitivity
analysis to create budgets based on
strategic plans and assumptions. Finally,
you need toenable a fully documented
audit trail and compliance with regulatory
mandates such as the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act for consolidating and reporting company information, both externally and
internally.
But gaining a true picture of your organization’s current health – let alone future
performance – can be almost impossible
to achieve. Critical operational and financial information is typicallyscattered
across multiple applications and databases, trapped as unstructured data in
e-mail attachments and spreadsheets.
In many cases, financial data is difficult
to audit or unreliable due to ineffective
controls.

why leading companies turn to enterprise performance management solutions like the SAP® BusinessObjects™
Planning and Consolidation application,
version for the Microsoftplatform.

Designed for Users, Built for
Business
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation gives you access to reliable corporate data and streamlines
planning and consolidation processes.
It lets you align operational plans with
corporate goals, initiatives, and metrics
defined using the SAP BusinessObjects
Strategy Management application. You
execute to plan, understand risk factors,and have the financial resources budgeted to support all initiatives.
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation is designed for all business
users, providing personalized, role-based
access to functionality that is:
• User focused
• Process centric
• Unified

User Focused
The software offers an unparalleled experience to business users. Designed for
Business planning is often achaotic and intuitive use, it features familiar Microsoft
Office application interfaces, intelligent
ineffective process. Budgeting can
action panes, and self-service reporting.
quickly deteriorate into “spreadsheet
hell” as operations managers submit
Native Interface to Microsoft Office
unrealistic budgets, executives change
Applications
the figures, and version control problems causeconfusion. Consolidations
Familiar Microsoft Office applications
can be equally problematic when data is including Excel, as well as an intuitive,
100% thin-client Web interface, serve
distributed across different departas native interfaces to the application.
ments, systems, and countries. That’s

To manage performance
effectively, you need a unified
planning and consolidation
solution thatis intuitive and
agile yet adheres to standard
business processes. This
helps streamline the planning
process and produces statutory and management reports
that instill confidence while
reducing business risk.

Business users can access Microsoft
Excel spreadsheets linked directly to
live operational data; as data is updated,
so is the spreadsheet. Working with
tools they know well,business users
need minimal training and are productive from day one.
Intelligent Action Panes
Business users view relevant, contextsensitive selections based on where
they are in an application and their security profile, enabling them to understand
what to do, when, and why.
Self-Service Reporting
All users can access information and
create reports on the fly without help
from IT....