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FIN: Key Differences Between Standard & Embedded BPC v10.x for NetWeaver

Nov 28, 2016 | 9:00 AM – 10:03 AM CST
Online
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Key Dif­fer­ences Between Stan­dard & Embed­ded BPC v10.x for NetWeaver

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Host­ed by: EPM (Enter­prise Per­for­mance Man­age­ment) SIG with­in Finan­cials Community

This pre­sen­ta­tion will com­pare two imple­men­ta­tion approach­es for SAP Busi­ness Plan­ning & Con­sol­i­da­tions for NetWeaver: Stan­dard and Embed­ded. It will address sys­tem require­ments, data inte­gra­tion, and  lead­ing prac­tices for mod­el design. The ses­sion will also cov­er report and input form design dif­fer­ences as well as key lessons learned from a recent embed­ded imple­men­ta­tion. It will con­clude with an overview of migra­tion paths from each approach to BPC Opti­mized for S/4HANA Finance.

Web­cast Agenda

  • Overview: His­to­ry, Key Sys­tem Requirements
  • Design: Data Inte­gra­tion, Mod­el Design
  • Reports & Input Forms: Design Approach­es for Analy­sis for Office vs EPM Add In, Lessons Learned from Embed­ded Implementation
  • Future Migra­tion: Migra­tion Paths from Stan­dard / Embed­ded to BPC Opti­mized for S/4HANA Finance

Speak­er:

Jeff Hat­ten­dorf

Jeff Hat­ten­dorf is Macrospect COO/​Principal Con­sul­tant with more than twen­ty years of expe­ri­ence mov­ing data for busi­ness. He co-found­ed Macrospect with Randy Mar­vel in 2005, which is one of the lead­ing imple­men­ta­tion part­ners for SAP’s EPM suite of prod­ucts. For the last ten years, he has focused on plan­ning, con­sol­i­da­tions, and relat­ed busi­ness intel­li­gence report­ing using the SAP EPM suite of tools. Macrospect works with some of the largest com­pa­nies in the world, such as The Estee Laud­er Com­pa­nies, Pep­si­Co, Agri­um, Union Pacif­ic Rail­road, Philips Health­care, Lex­mark Inter­na­tion­al, Chase Pay­mentech, Tyson Foods, Ascend Per­for­mance Mate­ri­als, Inter­na­tion­al Fla­vors & Fra­grances, and Cana­di­an Pacif­ic Rail­way, among others.

Mr. Hat­ten­dorf over­sees every engage­ment and his client indus­try expe­ri­ence includes:

  • finan­cial services
  • oil and gas
  • trans­porta­tion
  • healthcare/​pharmaceuticals
  • tech­nol­o­gy

He spe­cial­izes in solu­tion archi­tec­ture, process design, data inte­gra­tion, con­tract nego­ti­a­tion, engage­ment lead­er­ship, and training.

Grad­u­at­ing from The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin in 1992 with a BBA in Mar­ket­ing & Man­age­ment, Mr. Hat­ten­dorf also earned an MBA with an empha­sis in infor­ma­tion sys­tems­from Texas Chris­t­ian University‑M.J. Nee­ley School of Busi­ness in 1996. He is cer­ti­fiedin numer­ous tech­nolo­gies, includ­ing mul­ti­ple ver­sions of SAP Busi­ness Plan­ning & Con­sol­i­da­tions soft­ware. He is a Nation­al Mer­it Schol­ar and a mem­ber of Mensa.