Past Webcasts

Overview of Strategy Management (SSM)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 10 AM PT (1 PM ET)
Steve Stone, Director of Performance Solutions, will discuss how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management (SSM) solution to automate the communication and prioritization of key initiatives across your organization. Learn best practices to execute enterprise strategy management within your organization concentrating on definition, rollout, monitoring, managing, and feedback loops to collaborate and refine strategy.

Using BPC Edge in a Midsize Organization
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Learn how Fluidmaster leverages BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to automate planning and forecasting requirements.

Leveraging BPC for XBRL Compliance
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Hear from the experts at Column5 and UBmatrix about how best to leverage the SAP BusinessObjects XBRL Publishing application in conjunction with BPC to simplify and accelerate the preparation of XBRL documents. During this session, we will review the following topics:

• Update on XBRL Reporting Compliance Requirements
• Describe how BPC works with the SAP BusinessObjects XBRL Publishing application by UBmatrix
• Provide a demo of these two solutions working together to deliver an XBRL solution

S&OP Integrated with BPC
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is an important planning process for many companies, perhaps especially for manufacturers and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry participants. Column5 is pleased to announce we are collaborating with SAP to build a solution accelerator on BPC to provide this functionality. This presentation discusses the S&OP solution accelerator and the value it can bring to users.

Advanced Reporting with BusinessObjects Planning & Consolidation
Thursday, June 3, 2010
This webcast includes a demonstrations and tips & tricks for EVDRE Reporting in BusinessObjects Planning & Consolidation.

Strategies for SRC to BPC Migration
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Learn about the migration strategy and best practices when migrating from SRC to BPC. This webcast explores some of the key application differences between SRC and BPC. These application differences drive different designs and overall approaches that need to be considered when migrating from SRC to BPC.

Best Practices in Global Financial Consolidations with BPC
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Learn how Column5 has helped companies deploy the BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solution to accelerate the financial close process. Hear about new features in version 7 and 7.5 which you can leverage to provide additional automation.

Overview of Profitability & Cost Management (PCM)
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Understand what SAP Profitability and Cost Management can do for you, and realize the power of the “Drag and Drop” approach to perform forensic analysis of financial data. SAP PCM is a dedicated Cost Allocation / ABC tool for doing customer, organizational or channel profitability reporting. The presentation with show you an overview of the application and the type of information it produces natively without writing code. You see how easy it is to create P&L statements by customers, service organizations or many other dimensions of a company.

Convergence of BPC & BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
This presentation demonstrates how to achieve maximum value leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application and SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions. With both solutions now part of the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, having a fully integrated ecosystem of enterprise performance management (EPM) and business tools (BI) components working in a coordinated manner is now a reality. We will demonstrate how we created utilities connecting EPM to BI into a more seamless platform of what we call “Next-GenEPM.”

Best Practices in Upgrading to BPC Version 7.x
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Hear about best practices of upgrading from prior versions of BPC (4.x and 5.x) and new features of 7.x from Column5 and SAP.