Business Planning and Consolidation Getting Started

Business Planning and Consolidation
Business Planning and Consolidation drives consistency, transparency, and reliability in financial planning, management consolidation, business reporting and operational activities. Designed to empower users, regardless of skill level, to access and interact with data for timely and effective decision-making. Standardizing business flow processes and predictive analytics provide actionable information to drive business decisions as well as meet compliance requirements.
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (a component of SAP BusinessObjects EPM portfolio) is an application dedicated to financial processes on a unified platform. Owned by the business and designed for the end user, it is the target environment to support planning, consolidation and financial reporting, through unique functionalities like Business Process Flow and tight Microsoft Office integration. Get a snapshot of the application and learn how Enterprise Performance Management is now entering the next generation of application.

Getting Started
Business Planning and Consolidation 5.0 - Monthly Financial Process
This demo takes you through the details of the Monthly Financial Process in SAP BPC 5.0.
Budgeting Best Practices with SAP Business Planning
These blogs talk about the budgeting best practices and how they are surfaced using SAP CPM solutions. EPM How-To Guides Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV introduce these best practices and explain how the SAP Business Planning solution supports them. This collection of EPM and CPM How-To Guides covers a wide array of topics for various stages of planning and development.
Online Help documents can be accessed here: http://help.sap.com/bp_bpc70/html/index.htm

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