SAP Integrated Planning is a mature application with a great framework enabling usage of global data warehouse objects out of SAP BW for planning. It integrates global objects and data such as master and transactional data into the planning application. Authorization out of the current system can be reused and frontends, like SAP Bex Web or Analysis for Office, are ready to use without any further licenses.

Having a looking in the glass sphere into the future of the SAP Integrated Planning, a very nebulous picture came up.

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