EA162 Minimizing Data Replication Using

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

Sheldon Edelstein / SAP HANA Platform Solutions Group

Pravin Datar/ SAP Hana Product Management
Gerd Schoeffl /SAP Development

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Agenda
Overview of the BPC 10.1 solution
Minimizing data replication why is this important?
Overview of the exercises
Moving Ahead
Logging On

Locking
Execution Order

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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, version for SAP

NetWeaver, powered by SAP HANA Overview
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1,
version for SAP NetWeaver
SAP UIs
EPM Add-in

SAP Bus Suite

HTML5
Web UI

Mobile
Client

SAP BI
4.X*

SAP BPC 10.1

BPC Standard
Model

ECC

BPC Embedded
Model
(BW-IP Model Type)

SAP BW 7.4
Enterprise Data Warehouse

SAP HANA
Planning
Functions

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A richer user interface and visualization

experience, for true collaborative planning and
consolidations.
A pre-packaged planning and consolidations
solution, coupled with an advanced planning
development solution leveraging the IP/PAK
framework.
Real Time integration of data and master data
for planning scenarios
A planning and consolidation solution,
leveraging the full powers of SAP HANA.

HANA Planning
Engine

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Minimizing data replication why is this important?

What if there would be a central Database platform?
With no need for data replication?
Fewer Data redundancy
Fewer Data transfers

HTML5

Mobile

Fewer Data latency

Fewer Data reconciliation

Fewer Data correction
Fewer Data confusion
Fewer Data back-ups
Fewer IT involvement
past

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HANA

future

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Overview of the exercises

Exercise 1
A BPC Web report is
generated by linking to the
BEx query
Actuals and Plan data are
stored in two BW
infoproviders.

A BEx query is generated to

act as an infoprovider to the
reporting layer
An Excel report is
generated by linking to the
BEx query
The two infoproviders are
linked using a BW
multiprovider

The physical data records

are stored in HANA system
generated tables

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Overview of the exercises

Exercise 2
BEx query is generated
allowing visualization of data
Virtual Provider is linked into
the MultiProvider servicing the
BPC environment
BPC call in-memory allocation
function which uses the 2013
data to distribute new plan
data

Virtual infoprovider is created

linked to the HANA Calculation
View.

Calculation View is created on

the HANA physical table
A table with 2013 Revenue data
has been loaded into HANA and
will be used for 2014 allocations

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Overview of the exercises

Exercise 3
BEx query is generated
allowing visualization of data

Virtual Provider is linked

into the MultiProvider
servicing the BPC
environment

Using Smart Data

Access the
information is
virtualized in the
primary HANA
system

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Virtual Provider is created linked

to the HANA Calculation View

Calculation View is created

on the HANA virtual table

A physical table with

new 2014 data has
been loaded into a
separate HANA
database
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Overview of the exercises

Exercise 4
BEx query is generated to act
as infoprovider to EPM report

Virtual Provider is linked

into the MultiProvider
servicing the BPC
environment

EPM 10 Add In Excel report

generated to view data across
all infoproviders

Similar to Exercise 3, Smart Data Access

virtualizes the new data from H33 into a
Virtual Table, which is exposed into a BW
Virtual Provider using a Calculation View

New records are

added to physical
table using SQL
coding
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Move ahead
Logging On
Desktops:
User: Student Password: Welcome14 Domain: FAIR
BW, Business Explorer Query Designer (BEx), and EPM 10 Add In for Microsoft reporting user ids:
EA162-XXX (please use a dash)
Password is initial
User ids XXX are to be replaced by the workshop user id numbers assigned by the speakers at the beginning of
the session. Use the above BW user ids to access SAP Business Explorer Query Designer (BEx) and EPM 10
Add In for Microsoft reporting.

For HANA user ids, we are using the format:

EA162_XXX (please use an underscore)
Password: Welcome1
(Note: system HBD may request that you enter a new password when you logon to this system the first time,
please consistently use the password Welcome2 to avoid any confusion.)

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Move ahead
Locking
Please use the following assigned
country filter in all input forms and
functions to insure your data set is
unique and to prevent cross locking
issues

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Workshop
User ID
001
002
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Country
Code
AB
AD
AR
AT
AU
BE
BR
BY
CA
CH
CN
CO
CR
CY
CZ
DE
DK
DM
DZ
EG
ES

Workshop
User ID
022
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Country
Code
FI
FR
GB
GR
HK
HU
ID
IE
IL
IN
IT
JP
KE
KW
LA
LI
LK
LU
MA
MC
MX

Workshop
User ID
043
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Country
Code
MY
NG
NL
NO
NZ
PA
PE
PH
PK
PL
PT
PY
RU
SA
SE
SG
TR
UK
US
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Move ahead
Execution Order
These exercises were created in order of suggested execution.
Please do not jump ahead without completing the previous exercise, some reports
and structures generated in the previous exercise are reused in later exercises.
Optional Exercise 4 was provided with limited detailed guidance test your speed
and recall ability to complete it before the workshop ends!

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In case you wanted to know

SQL Code used in the creation of these exercises
CREATE COLUMN TABLE "EA162"."EA162_SDA_EX3" ("VERSION" VARCHAR(3),
"COUNTRY" VARCHAR(20),
"STORE" VARCHAR(4),
"MATERIAL" VARCHAR(18),
"MATGRP" VARCHAR(9),
"CALMONTH" VARCHAR(2),
"YEAR" VARCHAR(4),
"UNIT" VARCHAR(3),
"CURKEY" VARCHAR(7),
"AMOUNT" REAL CS_FLOAT,
"QUANTITY" REAL CS_FLOAT) UNLOAD PRIORITY 5 AUTO MERGE

Used to create the table in H33

INSERT into "EA162"."EA162_SDA_EX3" values('100','NEW','1','COPA500128','100','01','2014','ST','EUR',12000,350)

DELETE FROM EA162.EA162_SDA_EX3 WHERE VERSION = 100;
DROP TABLE EA162.EA162_SDA

DROP USER EA162_092;

CREATE USER EA162_092 PASSWORD Welcome1;
GRANT EA162_USER TO EA162_092;

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INSERT/DELETE/ DROP commands

used to add/selectively remove/erase
the table contents or the entire table

Used to reset user EA162-092 and

grant access permissions

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Further Information
Related TechEd && d-code 2014 sessions
EA201 SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, Version for SAP NetWeaver
EA209 Analytics with SAP BW on SAP HANA An End-to-End Scenario
EA212 ASUG Influence Council: Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
EA260 Integrated Planning Solution with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
EA302 Building Cool SAP HANA-Based Planning Apps
EA821 Road Map Q&A: SAP Solutions for Enterprise Performance Management
ITM101 Planning and Architecting an SAP HANA System Landscape
DMM260 Big Data with SAP HANA Including Hadoop and Smart Data Access

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Thank you
Contact information:

Sheldon Edelstein
HANA Platform Solutions Group
sheldon.edelstein@sap.com
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Pravin Datar
Dr. Gerd Schffl
SAP Hana Product Management SAP Development
pravin.datar@sap.com
gerd.schoeffl@sap.com

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