SAP BusinessObjects EPM 10.0 solutions present a plethora of customer-driven enhancements and innovations, but the major user-experience benefits of this release are twofold:
- Ease of use through a new web-based user interface Easier integration with Microsoft Office tools. The new, harmonized, web-based user interface is both more intuitive and easier to work with, giving all the applications a modern look and feel . Besides helping business users and model builders be more productive, it will also provide them with a greater range of options in creating and consuming reports. But business users will always want to use familiar tools for exploring and gaining insight into data, and accordingly, each solution in the SAP BusinessObjects EPM 10.0 portfolio comes with a new EPM add-in for Microsoft Office. The add-in provides business users with the capability to analyze data from one or more SAP BusinessObjects EPM applications using familiar, easier-to-use Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint), for greater insight and understanding of the data underlying organizational performance.
- To add to the improved user experience, SAP BusinessObjects EPM 10.0 solutions integrate even more easily with the 4.0 release of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions via the BI workspace, with enterprise information management tools being more closely embedded in the BI tool. More specifically, users can now create BI workspaces with EPM and BI content in a single dashboard.
Another new piece of customer-driven functionality can be found in SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0, with the addition of bill of materials (BOM) functionality. This allows manufacturers to quickly and easily allocate costs to complex, tiered bills of materials, enabling them to not only better understand the fully absorbed costs of assemblies and sub-assemblies, but also simulate costs based on revised recipes and material costs. A further enhancement in SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 that will save model builders considerable time is the ability to choose between account line or cost center — at any level of the hierarchy — when determining the primary dimension for cost assignments. This enables model builders to assign every line item in a cost center in a single pass, simply doing manual overrides for exceptions.
Important new functionality has been added to other applications in the SAP BusinessObjects EPM portfolio, as well.
In SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management, for example, initiatives can now be grouped according to type and functionality for subjective assessments. Also, as companies strive to both become more agile and deliver more predictable performance, new functionality is available for planning and budgeting. The best-in-class planning capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation have been extended to facilitate “risk-adjusted planning,” where revenue at risk, cost exposure, and mitigation expenses assessed in SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management can be integrated into forecasts and budgets to improve accuracy and provide a more transparent understanding of financial and operational risks. The 10.0 solutions further highlight SAP’s investment in differentiated planning capabilities and build on the earlier introduction of the SAP BusinessObjects Strategic Workforce Planning built on SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA).
Although performance management solutions are proving their worth in the continuing economic uncertainty, there is growing pressure for quicker, lower-cost implementations that leverage best practices — and SAP recognizes that. This release addresses these needs with an increasing number of content-based offerings, including analytic applications and starter kits for lines of business and industries. This pre-packaged content helps customers rapidly implement best-practice methodologies and gain quick time-to-value.
SAP’s aim — and slogan — is to help companies “run better,” and the 10.0 release of the SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management portfolio reinforces that message with the three “betters” — a better user experience, better capabilities, and better content — continuing the momentum that has enabled SAP to progress rapidly to a leadership position in performance management. SAP BusinessObjects EPM 10.0 will be launched in North America at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando, Florida,May 15–18, and in EMEA at the SAPInsider Financials 2011 event in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 7-9.
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