SAP Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) can bring your people and plans together to increase agility and performance. But what does xP&A really mean? As Gartner have summarised: “Cloud xP&A consists of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and multiple packaged operational planning solutions delivered on a single integrated, composable, data-harmonized vendor platform. It “extends” traditional FP&A solutions....
I’m S.Sreejith and I’m a Financial Planning Consultant at Applexus Technologies. The SAP Analytics Cloud’s allocations feature is a useful tool for businesses to allocate values gathered on one object to a number of other receiving objects depending on a driver. What instructs the system on how much of the collected value to allocate....
Learn how a SAC Planning model can be populated with data coming from custom calculations or Machine Learning. This blog focusses on importing the calculated results from SAP Datasphere into the SAP Analytics Cloud Planning Model and orchestrating the E2E data flow process and is part of a blog series, which explains the concept of....
Learn how a SAC Planning model can be populated with data coming from custom calculations or Machine Learning. We describe this concept in a series of three blogs. The blogs in the series are: Accessing planning data with SAP Datasphere (this blog) Create a simple planning model in SAC Make the planning data available in....
Integrated Financial Planning is a comprehensive content package for SAP Analytics Cloud that covers planning of operating expenses, product costs, sales and profitability, CAPEX, and financial statement. With the CAPEX module, capital expenses are planned on an aggregated level, not on single investment projects. Therefore, depreciations only can be taken into account on a global level....
The aim of this blog series is to explain the status of SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (SAP BPC) integration with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and our strategic direction. Furthermore, we want to show you how SAP Analytics Cloud can extend and provide a positive ROI for your current planning, forecasting and analysis scenarios and....
Introduction The aim of this blog series is to explain the status of SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (SAP BPC) integration with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and our strategic direction. Furthermore, we want to show you how SAP Analytics Cloud can extend and provide a positive ROI for your current planning, forecasting and analysis scenarios....
The aim of this blog series is to explain the status of SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (SAP BPC) integration with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and our strategic direction. Furthermore, we want to show you how SAP Analytics Cloud can extend and provide a positive ROI for your current planning, forecasting and analysis scenarios and....
Introduction The aim of this blog series is to explain the status of SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (SAP BPC) integration with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and our strategic direction. Furthermore, we want to show you how SAP Analytics Cloud can extend and provide a positive ROI for your current planning, forecasting and analysis scenarios....
Last year SAC introduced the new model type as successor of the classic account model. The new model brings together the measure based and the account based approach. When you create a new model there are two basic decisions that you need to take: Use/Not use the account dimension Define the structure priority between measure....
If we travelled in a car that could take us to the future, where would we see FP&A? The future of FP&A would not be standstill. FP&A may borrow from many of the traditional planning and analysis processes, but will make them more dynamic and accessible to companies of all sizes. Instead of crunching numbers,....