AfO vs. AfO for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC): Similarities, Differences, and Which One to Choose With Analysis for Office for SAC, an exciting new possibility opens up: accessing data from the SAP Analytics Cloud directly in Excel and working with it flexibly. But where exactly are the differences compared to the well-established and similarly named…
Schlagwort: PLANNING
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) – Export native planning to SAP S/4HANA ACDOCP Introduction SAC native planning works best when its planning capabilities are integrated with backend systems like SAP S/4HANA, particularly the ACDOCP table, which serves as the central storage for ERP plan data. In this blog, I will show how to export native planning…
The Future of Planning in Excel: The SAP Analytics Cloud Add-in as a Strategic Frontend – Part 1: Introduction For many business users in finance and controlling, Microsoft Excel is more than just software — it’s the daily tool for analysis, reporting, and, above all, corporate planning. Its flexibility and familiar environment are unbeatable. But…
Reflections on BW Modernization and Its Implications for Planning in the Cloud Since the announcement of the Business Data Cloud (BDC) a few months ago, I’ve followed numerous discussions surrounding the topic of BW Modernization with great interest. Given my background in planning applications and analytics architecture, these conversations have sparked several ideas about how…
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….
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…