Business Planning and Analytical Services in SAP

Business Planning and Analytical Services 

Purpose

Various BI interfaces and tools are available if you want to modify the Business Planning and Analytical Services scenario.

Advantages for Application Development

In this section, we distinguish between the two BI planning solutions, BI integrated planning and the BW-BPS, and analysis process design (for example, for data mining solutions).

BI Integrated Planning

·        You can develop your own data models and planning-specific metadata objects for your business planning.

·        You can use the BEx Query Designer to define input-ready queries for the manual entry of plan data.

·        In the BEx Analyzer and Web Application Designer, you can develop planning applications that support both manual and automatic data entry and changes.

·        With the SAP enhancement concept, you can make enhancements to the standard in the BI system. Within the BI system, you can use customer exits and BAdIs to make enhancements in the Query Designer and the Web Application Designer.

Business Planning and Simulation (BW-BPS)

·        You can use the BW-BPS Web Interface Builder to create Web-enabled planning applications in the form of Business Server Page applications (BSP applications).

·        Services that are based on the SAP NetWeaver Internet Communication Framework (ICF) are delivered with BI. The service for the Status and Tracking System (STS) is implemented as a Web service.

Analysis Process Design

·        You use the analysis process designer to define analysis processes that explore and identify hidden or complex relationships between BI data.

·        You use the data mining workbench to create models. This allows you to use the methods according to your requirements.

Prerequisites

Area	Prerequisites
BI integrated planning: modeling the data basis	-
BI integrated planning: modeling planning-specific metadata objects	-
BI integrated planning: definition of an input-ready query	-
BI integrated planning: creation of Web templates	Proficiency in standard markup languages
Enhancements using function exits and BAdIs	ABAP proficiency
BW-BPS: Web service for STS	-
BW-BPS: Web Interface Builder of BW-BPS	ABAP proficiency
Analysis Process Design	-
Data mining	-