Planning the future with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) – How and Why While my colleague Andreas already wrote a blog post about SAC Planning with BPC Live connection, this blog covers the part of Planning with SAC Native Planning and can help you decide when this type of application could be suitable for your needs….

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How to – incrementing Versioning/Scenarios (in planning solutions using SAP BW) Versioning concept In many of my BW/SAC Planning projects, there are requirements for a versioning and scenario concept. Since there are several good ways to implement the Actual/Budget/Forecast and Time Component, there is often the requirement for an incrementing dimension. It can be called…

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How to – Custom Status management in SAP BW / SAP SAC with aDSOs (using BW-IP / BPC) Status Management – Introduction In BW there is often the need to track the status of a process. This can be a planning process or a regular data load/working process. In this Blog, I will show how…

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Road to Seamless Planning :: SAC Migration :: 4 :: Move and Test  Introduction  After three weeks of migration, we now enter the final phase—moving content to the new SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) tenant. We decided to use 5.3.8 (Content Network) to move our content, skipping 5.3.5 (Export Content) and 5.3.6 (Import Content), to save…

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Road to Seamless Planning :: SAC Migration :: 3 :: Migration of content from the source tenant to the new tenant  Introduction  Following our journey toward seamless planning, we now focus on the migration process itself. This chapter covers the key steps required to transfer content from the source tenant to the new tenant efficiently. …

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Road to Seamless Planning :: SAC Migration :: 2 :: Setup security settings Introduction As we move forward on our Road to Seamless Planning (https://www.zpartner.eu/road-to-seamless-planning-sac-migration-1-0-setup/), the next critical step in our SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) migration is setting up security in the new tenant. Security configurations ensure the right users and roles are assigned, access…

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Road to Seamless Planning :: SAC Migration :: 1.0 :: Setup Introduction As described in the Blog “Minimum Viable Product with Seamless Planning” (https://www.zpartner.eu/minimum-viable-product-with-seamless-planning/) a prerequisite for Seamless Planning is that the SAC tenant is running on HANA Cloud. Currently, our tenant is not hosted on HANA Cloud, making migration the first necessary step toward…

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Minimum Viable Product with Seamless Planning Introduction Seamless Planning was launched as a controlled release in Q4 2024. In this blog, we will develop a minimum viable product and share insights into how Seamless Planning could influence your SAP IT architecture. Distinction SAC Native Planning and Seamless Planning Many of you have likely worked with…

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Generate Combinations Function in SAC Planning In customer projects input queries are often restricted to only posted values to ensure optimal performance for the end-users. As business requirements are usually quite similar from year to year, this supports the end-user to easily plan their values in a well-arranged input form without thinking about validity of…

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Franz-Josef Katzdobler @ DSAG Jahreskongress 2024 Der DSAG-Jahreskongress in Leipzig war auch in diesem Jahr sehr gut besucht, mit mehr als 5.000 SAP-SAP-Interessierten, die daran teilnahmen. Mein persönliches Highlight war Seamless Planning. Die Vision stimmt: Plandaten sollen damit zukünftig in der Datasphere abgelegt werden können. Wir hoffen auf eine rasche Umsetzung. Mit der DSAG AG…

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