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How to Measure Forecast Accuracy with SAP APO and SAP BW

Learn about the key considerations in designing processes for measuring forecast accuracy. See how forecast accuracy reports can be implemented using SAP APO Demand Planning (DP) and SAP Business Warehouse (BW). Key Concept Forecast accuracy is a measure of the difference between a prediction and what actually happens. It is a crucial metric in any…...…
Implement a Compliant Identity Management Solution for Effective Provisioning, Reporting, and Role Management

Learn how to achieve efficient, compliant, and secure management of user accounts and identities with SAP NetWeaver Identity Management (SAP NetWeaver IDM). Step through an overview of SAP NetWeaver IDM, including the product’s architecture and integration capabilities. Key Concept SAP NetWeaver Identity Management (SAP NetWeaver IDM) provides provisioning capabilities for SAP and third-party applications. You…...…
Live Q&A: Take the stress off your SAP Access Control 10.1 implementation

Get answers to your questions on SAP Access Control 10.1 implementations, from budget and personnel resources to common pain points and blueprinting best practices. Meet the panelist: Dylan Hack, Deloitte & Touche, LLP Dylan Hack is a Manager with Deloitte & Touche, LLP. He has 15 years of SAP project experience with global clients in…...…
SAP HANA Administration Chat: Kurt Hollis on Architecture, Monitoring, and More

SAP HANA is an in-memory database engine and application platform that offers unique advantages for reporting and high-performance operations. Customers have to answer many questions in their path to running on SAP HANA. How can architect your SAP HANA solution to fit your needs? Once you are up and running, how can administrators monitor the…...…
Extending Your Vision of Value

Changes in technology and in the ways businesses operate have made the finance function increasingly fragmented, with data residing in disparate systems and locations. The Central Finance deployment option for SAP S/4HANA Finance helps finance departments overcome this challenge by enabling a single source of truth for finance data. This article looks at how Central…
Make Sure That User-Defined Statuses Appear in SAP NetWeaver BI for Reporting

Learn about a method you and your BI team can use to report on CRM transaction data with customized user status information in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence. With these five steps, which do not require custom coding, you can extract the CRM user-defined status along with CRM transactional data. Key Concept CRM user-defined statuses let…...…
Use Top-Down Distribution in CO-PA to Report Overhead Costs at Lower-Level Characteristics

Discover top-down distribution functionality and execution in day-to-day operations with two business examples. The first explains the allocation of expenses from cost centers to material groups through profitability analysis (CO-PA) assessment, with material group being a higher-level characteristic. The second explains how to distribute these expenses, posted through CO-PA assessments, from material group to material…...…
6 Steps to Enhance a CRM DataSource Using a BDoc BAdI

Learn about a new method you and your BW team can use to report on information obtained when you add new partner functions to SAP CRM — the Business Document Business Add-In. This six-step process allows you to collect data in real time and enables you to load the data into SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence…...…
Boost Your Data Governance Strategy with the Right Data Quality Metrics

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ManagementData quality metrics are critical to proving the value of your data governance strategy to business users. However, selecting the right metrics can be challenging. In this article, Jason McClain of Deloitte & Touche, LLP, illustrates a four-point strategy for choosing the right metrics for your company. Neglecting data governance can lead to several issues,…...…
Automate Data Loading in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5

/BILearn a data loading automation solution for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver. With this solution, business users can start and finish data loading by themselves by clicking a couple of buttons in the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation client interface and save the loaded data in a different version. Key Concept…...…