Comparison with a Business Consolidation System(BCS) background

NOTE:  SAP BPC 7.5 NW

• Applications hold transaction data.
• Applications are InfoCubes in BW.
• Applications have multiple dimensions and they have multiple properties.
• The dimensions are characteristics and the attributes are navigational.
• The Legal application is equivalent to the InfoCube we define in the databasis.
• The Rate application would equal the TCURR table.
• The Ownership application is equivalent to the investment / equity data store object.
• Account Dimension = Item.
• Category = Version.
• Datasource Dimension = Posting level and document type.
• Entity Dimension= consolidation unit.
• Group Dimension= consolidations groups
• Intercompany Dimension = Trading Partner.
• Additional user defined dimensions = additional sub assignments.
• Business Rules = Methods.
• Account transformations = Reclassifications.
• Automatic Adjustments = Inter Unit Eliminations and COI Entries.
• Work status = Blocked tasks.
• BPF’s relate to the Monitor.
• Input and Report Currency Dimension= currency key.
• In the Rate App: Account = Exchange Rate Type (Avg, End, etc)
• InfoProvider data manager package = Load Data Stream
• Balancing logic = Selected Items
• BPC for Excel = Business Explorer Analyzer
• BPC allows periodic or YTD data storage while BCS is always periodic.






Note: Dimensions in Business Planning and Consolidation are the same as characteristics in BW. Dimensions in BW however are tables in an InfoCube. BW Dimensions may contain one or more characteristics.