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The most comprehensive seminar available for finance and IT teams that evaluate, use, support, and deploy SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Streamlined planning processes for Sales and operations
Amsterdam October 3-5
Headcount Capital planning Budgeting and more Planning, budgeting, and consolidation benchmarks Guidelines for the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions of BPC
Orlando October 17-19
Best practices for both legal and management consolidations Data modeling, security, performance, and usability dos and donts Data migration strategies from older planning applications to BPC 7 lessons to get your BPC project off on the right foot
The BPC education offered at this seminar is unmatched in depth, breadth, and quality. We guarantee it. (see registration form for details)
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Sessions include
Title Page
DAY 1 1 2 3
Ask questions and receive advice from other finance and IT professionals evaluating, using, supporting, and deploying BPC
Leading strategies and benchmarks for planning, budgeting, and consolidation in this post-recession economy Updates and criteria to map planning, budgeting, and consolidation technologies to your specific requirements Mastering both the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions of BPC Lessons for more streamlined and effective planning Reduce closing and consolidation costs and timelines: An illustrated guide A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to efficiently build detailed, accurate business and financial plans 3 3 4 4 5 5
4 5 6
DAY 2 7 8 9 10 11
Detailed instruction for using BPC to streamline and ensure compliant financial closes and consolidated reports Best practices for integrating data from SAP and non-SAP systems to ensure valid calculations, plans and reports Data modeling techniques for architecting a high-performing planning and consolidation solution Key considerations for BPC adoption and data migration Bonus panel discussion: Making your SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation solution fly: Tips and tricks for performance optimization 6 6 7 7
DAY 3 12 13 14
Reporting and analysis with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Optimizing the end-user experience Steps for improving collaboration between IT and finance 7 keys to a successful BPC project or implementation 8 9 9
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Who is attending
Vice Presidents, Directors, and Managers of: Accounting Budgeting and planning Business intelligence Consolidations Controlling Corporate finance Finance Financial planning Forecasting Internal audits Operations Regulatory compliance Strategic planning Teams that lead and support: Accounting systems Budgeting Business analysis Capital expenditure planning Compliance Cost center budgeting Financial accounting Financial applications Financial planning Financial reporting Global finance Headcount planning Intercompany reconciliation Month-end close Operations analysis Profitability planning Reporting and analysis Sales and operations planning IT Teams: Basis administrator Business systems Configuration specialist Data analyst Database administrator Data modeler Master data management Planning and consolidation systems Report development SAP BusinessObjects SAP NetWeaver BW SAP system administrator Systems architect
DAY 1
SESSION 1
Leading strategies and benchmarks for planning, budgeting, and consolidation in this post-recession economy
CPE credits: FINANCE .6
This session provides an overview of the top financial industry benchmarks, best practices, and trends to help your team create a sound strategy for all planning and consolidation initiatives. Prepare for the steps you need to take to achieve unified planning, consolidation, and management reporting across your business, including process alignment, data harmonization and change management See how your organization measures up to the top 2011 industry benchmarks for planning and consolidation, such as time-to-close and the overall time spent on planning Get detailed answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, including how the solution can scale to meet an organizations unique needs Understand and prepare for the effects of specific regulatory and economic initiatives on your financial planning Explore some of the key trends within the financials industry, such as rolling forecasting, driver-based budgeting and IFRS conversion, and examine how they can be applied in your organization
Benchmark your planning, budgeting, and consolidation processes against those of leading companies
SESSION 2
Updates and criteria to map planning, budgeting, and consolidation technologies to your specific requirements
CPE credits: FINANCE 1.8
This session provides SAP and SAP BusinessObjects customers with the product updates, comparisons, and guidelines needed to choose the right budgeting, planning, and consolidation tools. Explore, in detail, the functionality, requirements, limitations, and usability of: SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation SAP NetWeaver BW Integrated Planning SEM Business Consolidation Systems EC-CS Understand the operational and end-user effects of SAPs new solution releasessuch as BPC version 10.0and maintenance strategy on your own solution adoption decisions Find out how each planning and consolidation solution affects a companys ability to meet evolving audit requirements Prepare for the change management effort required when migrating from IT-centric applications, such as SAP NetWeaver BW Integrated Planning functionality, to business-centric applications, such as BPC
SESSION 3
Learn four new methods for creating reports and input schedules
SESSION 4
SESSION 5
Obtain best practices for using BPC to execute six crtitical periodend closing steps
SESSION 6
A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to efficiently build detailed, accurate business and financial plans
CPE credits: FINANCE 1.8
This deep-dive session provides step-by-step instruction to help new and experienced users alike optimize their planning processes using BPC. View detailed demonstrations and get best practices for performing common planning scenarios, including: Headcount planning Sales and operations planning (S&OP) Capital expenditure planning Profitability planning Cost center budgeting Learn how to analyze your companys balance sheet, statement of profit and loss, and statement of cash flow to identify weaknesses in your financial plan Evaluate the three distinct options for bringing pre-delivered planning and consolidation content into your BPC environment: Consulting accelerator Starter kit Business analytics solution (BAS) Delve into the benefits of using the starter kit available with BPC, such as leveraging pre-delivered content for liquidity planning Explore the concept of business analytics solutions (BAS) with BPC, and understand how it supports supply and demand planning Review the various types of pre-delivered content contained within the consulting accelerator (e.g., capital expenditure content) versus BAS (e.g., sales and operations content), to know which would provide the greatest benefit in your organization
DAY 2
SESSION 7
Detailed instruction for using BPC to streamline and ensure compliant financial closes and consolidated reports
CPE credits: ACCOUNTING 1.8
Step through proven approaches for leveraging BPC to streamline closes and consolidation and ensure the accuracy and compliance of consolidated reportsboth within business units and across global entities.
Get best practices (such as leveraging the proper design of your entity structures) for performing both management consolidation and legal consolidation Understand the different accounting options within BPC, such as one-sided versus double-sided eliminations, and gauge which would best meet your teams financial needs Learn how to create business rules to optimize common consolidation activities, including: Currency translation Carry-forwards Intercompany bookings Account transformations Get best practices for performing three different methods of investment consolidation purchase, proportional, and equity Find out why entities and account dimensions are a critical element of master data management Learn how to use the starter kit to boost your consolidation project
SESSION 8
Best practices for integrating data from SAP and non-SAP systems to ensure valid calculations, plans and reports
CPE credits: ACCOUNTING 1.8
This session offers strategies for successful data integration between SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and your other SAP and non-SAP systems to ensure the accuracy of your financial reports and calculations. Learn how to leverage the data manager in conjunction with the ETL engine to load flat files or SAP NetWeaver BW data into BPC Discover how the BPC version for SAP NetWeaver versus the version for Microsoft integrate differently with SAP systems Acquire insight into the technical integration points between BPC and SAP NetWeaver BW Understand how data should flow from other SAP systems into BPC to perform common business processes, such as: Allocating IT costs Cost-center accounting Profitability analysis Review the top data integration challenges experienced by SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation users such as determining which allocations to execute and get best practices for overcoming them Obtain financial master data management and governance best practices that ensure valid data and reconciliations Explore creative solution architectures that will allow you to leverage real-time data for fast financial closes Hear the real-world experiences and lessons learned from organizations who have successfully integrated BPC with their SAP and non-SAP applications
SESSION 9
Data modeling techniques for architecting a high-performing planning and consolidation solution
CPE credits: ACCOUNTING 1.8
Examine the various data modeling options available within BPC, such as creating distinct application sets or workbooks, and evaluate the impact each option has on your solutions security, performance and usability. Explore best practices for determining dimension types and incorporating planned/actual data into your overall data strategy Get criteria to help you decide whether to take a data mart versus enterprise data warehouse (EDW) approach to modeling BPC data Gain insight into when you should leverage application sets versus application modeling to ensure optimized performance Leave with guidance for compounding time dependencies and determine whether to limit the size of your characteristic values ahead of time, or generate new characteristic values to integrate with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Understand the impact your data model design will have on script logic and custom coding Discover best practices for pulling non-account-based models (e.g., from SAP NetWeaver BW Integrated Planning) into BPC
Choose the right data migration path from your current planning solution to BPC
SESSION 10
SESSION 11
Bonus panel discussion Making your SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation solution fly: Tips and tricks for performance optimization
CPE credits: ACCOUNTING .9
This candid panel discussion offers proven strategies from all three expert speakers for optimizing the performance of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Based on years of experience, the experts provide techniques for ensuring your BPC solution runs as quickly and efficiently as possible, while uncovering key pitfalls and gotchas (so that you dont have to later). After the panelists offer their optimization tips and tricks, the session opens up to fast-paced, interactive Q&A. Bring your most pressing questions and leave with the real-world recommendations you need.
Learn new ways to exploit SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects BI for timely, accurate, userfriendly reports
DAY 3
SESSION 12
Reporting and analysis with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Optimizing the end-user experience
CPE credits: ACCOUNTING 1.8
When it comes to financial planning and consolidation, reporting is key. This session provides detailed instruction for leveraging complementary SAP BusinessObjects solutions to ensure accurate, user-friendly reports and analyses. Navigate a decision tree to identify the pros and cons of two distinct reporting strategies: Leveraging SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions in conjunction with BPC SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, Excel client Step through demonstrations that illustrate how to leverage the reporting tools native to BPC, including SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Live Reporting Assess the strengths and limitations of using specific SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions with BPC, including Xcelsius, SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Map each of these reporting tools to specific report types, including profit and loss, balance sheets, and cash flow Understand your options for report customization such as embedding an Xcelsius dashboard within your BPC workbook to meet your unique financial reporting requirements
SESSION 13
Step through proven models to improve collaboration between finance and IT and ensure success with BPC
SESSION 14
SPECIAL PREVIEW!
This session includes advanced coverage of: Strategic workflow planning SAP in-memory technologies SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA) Attendees of this seminar have the opportunity to evaluate these tools and their cost/benefit impact on budgeting, planning, and consolidation processes
Scott Cairncross
Chief Architect, TruQua Enterprises
Scott Cairncross is the Owner and Lead Consultant of TruQua Enterprises, a Software Development and SAP Services Company. Prior to starting TruQua, Scott was a Senior Director in the Enterprise Performance Management RIG and Head of the EPM RIG Americas. Scott specializes in business planning and consolidation and has a deep knowledge of SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects and the EPM suite. Scott focuses on helping customers successfully implement SAP BusinessObjects, EPM solutions, and SAP NetWeaver BW. Scott is also heavily focused on bringing SAP data into Rich Internet Applications, leveraging Flex, Cocoa and Rich Java Tools, such as Google Web Toolkit, on both PCs and devices. Scott has participated in numerous SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects and EPM go-lives and has spoken at SAP TechEd, SAPinsider, ASUG and SAPPHIRE events.
David Dixon
Independent Researcher and Solution Architect
David Dixon is an internationally recognized speaker and author. His authoritative book Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse and popular SAP-sponsored white papers establish him as a leading expert in SAP implementation and deployment strategies. David was a former Financials and Controlling Platinum Consultant with SAP, specializing in all the SAP information systems and tools. He has actively worked with SAPs development team for over fifteen years in support of applications in the enterprise performance management space, starting with SAP ERP-based Financial Consolidation (FI-LC). He has extensive project experience in implementing complicated global solutions for Fortune 100 companies and is a recognized speaker at SAPinsider and ASUG events.
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SAVE
seminar
Amsterdam October 3-5
The most comprehensive seminar available for finance and IT teams that evaluate, use, support, and deploy SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Orlando October 17-19
Streamlined planning processes for Sales and operations Headcount Capital planning Budgeting and more Planning, budgeting, and consolidation benchmarks Guidelines for the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions of BPC
Best practices for both legal and management consolidations Data modeling, security, performance, and usability dos and donts Data migration strategies from older planning applications to BPC 7 lessons to get your BPC project off on the right foot
Las Vegas November 2-4