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SAP BusinessObjects Financial Information Management 10 Solution Overview

Paul Ferro, EPM Solution ManagementFrantz Guionnet, EPM Product Management

January 2011

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Agenda

1. SAP BusinessObjects Financial Information Management 10.0 L-Map

2. Features and FunctionsUser InterfaceConnectivityAdministrationPlatform Support

3. Demonstration

4. Q&A


SAP BusinessObjects EPM Solutions For Finance 10.0

Direct link: http://service.sap.com/rkt-epm

OKP / Learning Maps for Application and Technology Consultants


New Flex User Interface

FIM user interface has been completely re-design in Flex


User Interface enhancements

Last execution date, duration and status now displayed in job list :

Possible to run jobs from job list :



Improved Job Run History :

Job execution duration instead of job execution end time :

Visual warning when no lines are imported



Improved Job Run History :Job run history and job run details merged



Improved Job Run History :Technical status for both the extraction and the loading phases :

Imported lines displayed



Improved Job Mapping Audit trail:

Improved readability:


Intercompany integration

You can create an Intercompany datastore in FIM

FIM leverages the new Intercompany Webservice interfaces

Only loading into Intercompany is supported (extraction is not supported)



For a given job you can load data into Intercompany at either the Balance or the Invoice level



Support standard loading options to IntercompanyInvoice import

Balance Import



Metadata browsing is available when creating your mapping tables :



Masterdata browsing is available when populating your mapping tables :



In Intercompany you can configure the links to FIM



When they are configured the following links appear in Intercompany :Launch FIM :

Drill to Origin :


Improved Integration with SAP ECC

You can create an SAP ECC datastore in FIM

These datastores can beused to extract data fromSAP ECC (not to import data into SAP ECC)



You can extract data from SAP ECC using the SAP datasources ( a.k.a. Business Content Extractors )




Limitation: Masterdata browsing is not available


Improved integration with SAP ECC :Drill to Source

From the Drill to Origin page, you are now able to drill to SAP ECC


Improved Integration with SAP Netweaver BW

You can create SAP Netweaver BusinessWarehouse datastores in FIM

These datastores can be used both to extract data and import into SAP Netweaver BW



You can extract data from SAP Netweaver BW using its OpenHub interface :



You can import data into SAP Netweaver BW :

FIM is « pushing » raw data into SAP NW BW Persistent Storage Area (PSA)

Complements Financial Consolidation Cube Designer which creates BI elements on top of data for easy user consumption



Masterdata browsing is available when populating your mapping tables and applying filters:


New Web Administration Console

Allows you to configure the FIM server after installation


New Platforms

Native 64-bits support


Demonstration


Demo scenario

Functional Workflow :Extraction of Account Payable (AP) module of SAP ECCImport Invoices into IntercompanyDrill to Origin from Intercompany to FIMDrill to Source from FIM to SAP ECC

Technical Platform :Intercompany 10.0Financial Information Management 10.0BOE Aurora ( CMS XI 4.0 )Data Services XI 4.0SAP ECC 6.0


Q&A


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How to Standardize Your Color Scheme

If you create objects to illustrate your concepts, use the following color palette. Refer to the notes area for details.

Secondary color palette100%

Primary color palette 100%

RGB 68/105/125

RGB 96/127/143

RGB 125/150/164

RGB 152/173/183

RGB 180/195/203

RGB 4/53/123 RGB 240/171/0 RGB 102/102/102RGB 153/153/153RGB 204/204/204

RGB 21/101/112

RGB 98/146/147

RGB 127/166/167

RGB 154/185/185

RGB 181/204/204

RGB 85/118/48

RGB 110/138/79

RGB 136/160/111

RGB 162/180/141

RGB 187/200/172

RGB 119/74/57

RGB 140/101/87

RGB 161/129/118

RGB 181/156/147

RGB 201/183/176

RGB 100/68/89

RGB 123/96/114

RGB 147/125/139

RGB 170/152/164

RGB 193/180/189

RGB 73/108/96

RGB 101/129/120

RGB 129/152/144

RGB 156/174/168

RGB 183/196/191

RGB 129/110/44

RGB 148/132/75

RGB 167/154/108

RGB 186/176/139

RGB 205/197/171

RGB 132/76/84

RGB 150/103/110

RGB 169/130/136

RGB 188/157/162

RGB 206/183/187

85%

70%

55%

40%

RGB 158/48/57Tertiary color palette100%

85%

70%

55%

40%

SAP Blue SAP Gold SAP Dark GraySAP GraySAP Light Gray

Dove Petrol Violet/MauveWarm RedWarm Green

Cool Green Ocher Warning RedCool Red


Grid


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