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© 2015 ERP Corp. All rights reserved.
Innovations in SAP Planning: SAP Cloud for Planning
Scott Cairncross
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Introduction
• In this presentation we will explain how the cloud enables
software delivery.
• We will delve into the exciting new public cloud product from
SAP – Cloud for Planning.
• We will walk through an introduction to this public cloud
product.
• We will provide an overview of various features in the product
including the Event Manager.
• Together we will walk through a live demo of the Cloud 4
Planning system.
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Topics
• Cloud Computing Options
• SAP Cloud for Planning – An Overview
• SAP Cloud for Planning – Diving In
• Demo
• Summary
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Cloud Computing Scenarios
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
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• Servers available “On the Fly”
• Customizable networks
• Elastic Storage
• Elastic Computing Resources
• Managed Private Cloud
• Examples:
• Amazon Web Services
• Windows Azure
• Google Computing Engine
• SAP Examples:
• HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)
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Platform as a Service (PaaS)
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• Development platform available on the internet
• Platform to build Public cloud Apps
• Shared development infrastructure
• Examples:
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Google App Engine
• Amazon Web Services
• Windows Azure
• SAP Examples:
• HANA Cloud Platform (HCP)
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Software as a Service (SaaS)
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• Software available on the internet
• Public cloud
• Shared infrastructure
• Formerly known as “On Demand” Software
• Examples:
• Salesforce.com
• Linkedin.com
• SAP Examples:
• Concur
• SuccessFactors
• SAP Cloud for Planning (C4P)
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The Perfect Analogy
9Source: Albert Barron, IBM
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Cloud Adoption
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Social
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Cloud
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One offering/product, 23%
Two offerings/ products, 24%
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Four offerings/products
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Don't leverageany
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Nexus of Forces* Adoption Thus Far
76%use at least
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Nexus
technologies
*Gartner defines “the nexus of forces” as the convergence and mutual reinforcement of four
interdependent trends: social interaction, mobility, cloud, and information
Source: Gartner. John Van Decker. Survey Analysis: Critical CFO Technology Needs from
the 2014 Gartner FEI Study. June 2014.
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Topics
• Cloud Computing Options
• SAP Cloud for Planning – An Overview
• SAP Cloud for Planning – Diving In
• Demo
• Summary
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SAP’s EPM Vision
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v
Consumer grade
user experience
Connect finance and lines of business
SAP EPM
In the cloudEmbedded ERP
and standalone
High-performance,
real-time platform
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Introducing SAP Cloud for Planning
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• Future Oriented
• People Centric
• Analytics
Embedded
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SAP Cloud for Planning
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See how SAP Cloud for Planning can help you “Plan Simpler”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYCdGr1FMmo&feature=youtu.be
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SAP Cloud for Planning (cont.)
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• SAP Cloud for Planning is a people-centric solution designed to
help simplify financial planning and analysis and eliminates the
need for different tools. Finance and other line of business
professionals are envisioned to eliminate the complexity of their
planning processes and quickly integrate corporate and
divisional plans to drive better results with data driven decision-
making.
• Future-Oriented
• Completely based in the cloud
• People-Centric
• Removes complexity between you and your plans
• Analytics-Embedded
• Fully integrated into your work
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Future-oriented
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• Enjoy a new generation
of planning in the cloud
with a modern look and
feel
• Plan and simulate at
any level of detail, with
any number of users, at
any time
• Trust your application
will perform when and
how you expect
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People-centric
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• Simply create and
modify planning
models on the fly
• Take action anytime,
anywhere on the
desktop or on the
go
• Align plans across
Finance and
business units with
direct integration
into SAP Business
Planning and
Consolidation Source: SAP
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Analytics-embedded
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• Analyze and
plan in the
same app
• Personalize
your KPIs and
dashboard
• Collaborate in-
context of your
plan
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Topics
• Cloud Computing Options
• SAP Cloud for Planning – An Overview
• SAP Cloud for Planning – Diving In
• Demo
• Summary
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SAP Cloud for Planning: Home Screen
• The home screen is a dashboard –
a personal place in which you can
organize your data
such as in charts, reports, events,
and notes
• Interactive Tiles
• Flexible visualization and drill-
down capabilities
• Hichert IBCS Notation
• Professional business charting
• Collaboration and Timeline Panel
• Organize and structure your
work with build-in
chat and workflow functionality
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SAP Cloud for Planning: Models
• A model is a representation of business
data to define relationships, calculations,
and data of an organization or business
segment
• Easy set up
• Models with multiple perspectives are
easy to
create in an Excel-like interface
• Preview Panel
• Visual representation of your modeled
data
• Data Import
• Upload of external data sources and
integration with SAP on-premise
systems
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SAP Cloud for Planning: Reports
• A report is an organized
representation of
data, comprising multidimensional
data
views for the purpose of analysis,
reporting,
and planning
• Version Management
• Create and copy versions of data
and define
access rights
• Conditional Formatting
• Create, personalize, and monitor
KPIs
• Visualization
• Context-specific visualization
proposalsSource: SAP
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SAP Cloud for Planning: Reports (cont.)
• Start your planning in private
versions and decide when
you want to submit them
• Share them with you co-
workers for
joint planning or publish them
to make them available to
everyone
• Entered data gets
automatically spread over all
perspectives in a model
• Use advanced features such
as cell locking and
specialized report layouts
to get more productive
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SAP Cloud for Planning: Collaboration
• To optimize collaborative
decision-making processes and
ensure future accountability, SAP
Cloud for Planning comes with
context-based social
collaboration capabilities
• Stay in context
• Collaborate directly on your
plans instead of having to use
yet an other application and
send offline data
• Access from anywhere
• Share report versions, discuss
on cells, assign tasks, and
attach any file you uploaded
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SAP Cloud for Planning: Events
• The events section is a calendar
interface to organize events and assign
tasks to dedicated team members
• Content and Reminders
• Add content such as documents,
plans, or
versions and set reminders for
upcoming events
and tasks
• Workflow Management
• Export and import workflows to
synchronize
your planning data with other
applications
• Multi-Step Approval
• Define assignee(s), reviewer(s), and
approver to a specific task Source: SAP
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Private Versions
• Feature:
• Planning done in private
versions for individuals or
teams and then published as
a public version for everyone
to view
• Benefit:
• Changes can be made to
private version and then
easily discarded or shared
(i.e. publish) as needed
• Example:
• Analyst wants to model some
sales promotion scenarios
using private model prior to
sharing with his colleagues
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Calculated Members
• Feature:
• Create formulas on the
account dimension
• Benefit:
• Formulas will be applied to all
versions
• Example:
• General Manager would like to
track some key KPIs
calculations to track his team’s
performance. He can create
formula to track value like
operating profit %, sales per
headcount and other metrics
to help manage the business
across various regions and in
this case product groups.Source: SAP
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Simple Report Calculations
• Feature:
• Create reporting formulas to
aggregate values or perform
simple calculations within the
summary sheet
• Benefit:
• Reporting formulas can be
used to aggregate information
from multiple sources
• Example:
• Brand manager would like to
track her team’s performance
by creating a variance
calculation to compare actuals
to plan
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Direct Entry
• Feature:
• Adjust value in a report view by directly
entering this value at parent or base level
or by adding by %
• Benefit:
• Can directly enter in plan change at
various levels or change them by a
certain % to streamline plan adjustments
• Example:
• Purchasing manager wants to estimate
cost saving by switching vendors to
lower raw material costs
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Multiple Model Integration
• Feature:
• Integrate multiple models into
a report that can be used for
analysis and plan adjustment
• Benefit:
• Can integrate data from
multiple sources and write
back results to various
models
• Example:
• Analyst wants to separate out
headcount data within a
profitability report to validate
profitability based on
possible headcount changes
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Hybrid Scenario – BPC and C4P
Extend SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation deployment with
complementary, integrated
Departmental/Strategic Business Unit
(SBU) scenarios in the Cloud
SAP Cloud
for Planning
SAP Cloud
for Planning
Corporate Finance
Public
Cloud
On premise
Private Cloud
(HEC)
SAP Business
Planning and
Consolidation
Strategic Business Units
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Topics
• Cloud Computing Options
• SAP Cloud for Planning – An Overview
• SAP Cloud for Planning – Diving In
• Demo
• Summary
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DEMO
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Topics
• Cloud Computing Options
• SAP Cloud for Planning – An Overview
• SAP Cloud for Planning – Diving In
• Demo
• Summary
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Resources & Acknowledgements
• YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYCdGr1FMmo&feature=
youtu.be
• SAP Help
• https://cp.hana.ondemand.com/dps/d/preview/1949b084ea33
43df9e83923e906b7a03/9.0/en-US/frameset.htm
Thanks to Pras Chaterjee and Jason Reid from SAP.
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Five Key Ideas
• SaaS is a growing channel that more and more organizations
are leveraging for their Enterprise Software needs
• SAP Cloud for Planning is a new Public Cloud solution from
SAP
• SAP Cloud for Planning is a unified planning and analytics
solution that is future oriented, people-centric and analytics
embedded.
• C4P has a number of rich features including Event Manager,
Allocations and Stories.
• C4P does not replace BPC but is instead complementary and
can be used in Hybrid planning scenarios.
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Questions
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