BPC Administration Training: 10.1 NetWeaver Standard
Course Description / Summary:
This course includes in-depth instruction on primary tasks of an administrator of SAP BPC. In this course you will explore creating and running data manager packages and managing environments, models, and dimensions. You will also discover how to secure dimensions and how to provide users with specific tasks and data profiles. You will also learn how to streamline business processes by creating process templates and managing Business Process Flows, and much more!
Audience:
- BPC Administrators
- BPC Power Users
Prerequisites:
- Experience using Microsoft Excel
- Familiarity with modeling concepts and data warehousing
Courses:
- BPC Metadata
- Data Manager packages
- Security and Work Status
- Journals and BPC Web Client
- Publication and Distribution
- Process Flows (BPFs)
- Introduction to BPC Logic
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Timing:
- BPC Application Administration (NetWeaver Standard) is comprised of seven, 3-hour courses, which may be taken alone or in series. These courses should be taken as early in the implementation as possible.
Product Hands-On:
- Virtual Classroom Training: Interactive simulation exercises to provide hands-on experience with BPC
- On-Demand eLearning: Interactive simulation exercises to provide hands-on experience with BPC
- On-Site Classroom: Exercises performed in your BPC environment
Training Curriculum:
- Presentation, instructor demonstrations, and exercises use the Column5 Training environment.
- BPC 10.1 NetWeaver Administration Learning Objectives
- Metadata
- Identify the process for creating new environments
- Identify the process for deleting environments from the server
- Recognize the steps involved in monitoring user activity
- Identify the steps and rules for adding new dimensions to environments
- Recognize the process for managing dimension properties
- Differentiate between dimension types
- Identify the steps for creating and managing dimension hierarchies
- Recognize the process for storing data by creating new models
- Distinguish between model types
- Identify how to edit model properties
- Identify the purpose and process for optimizing a model
- Recognize how to optimize data by utilizing process types
- Data Manager
- Recognize the location and uses of Data Manager
- Identify how packages are represented
- Identify the file type used to represent packages
- Recognize the order of the standard five steps of the Package Cycle
- Identify how package prompts are used
- Identify the process for executing Data Manager Packages
- Identify the steps for using a Data Manager package to clear data within a model
- Recognize the method for utilizing package comments
- Identify the steps for using a Data Manager package to copy data between dimensions
- Identify the steps for using a Data Manager package to export transaction and master data from a model
- Identify the steps for using a Data Manager package to import transaction and master data into a model
- Determine how to handle duplicate records for import
- Recognize the process for organizing packages
- Identify the process for customizing an existing package
- Journals and Web Client
- Recognize the steps for creating a new journal template
- Differentiate between Translation Table Columns
- Identify the process for implementing Journal Reopen Rules
- Recognize the method for administering journals
- Recognize the process for restricting dimension members
- Identify the process for implementing journal security
- Identify the method for deleting journals
- Identify the correct method for adjusting existing journal entries
- Identify the method for creating, saving, posting, and un-posting journal entries
- Recognize the location to access Planning and Consolidation objects using the Web Client
- Identify the method for formatting a Report
- Recognize the steps for adding new Objects to the Library
- Identify the location and uses for Activities, the Process Monitor, and the Library
- Differentiate between the uses of Objects, Processes and Documents
- Recognize the steps for utilizing the Web Client to prepare reports on system information
- Security and Work Status
- Identify the location for accessing the BPC security components
- Differentiate between the four security components of BPC security
- Identify the method for adding, editing, and deleting Users, Teams, and Task Profiles
- Recognize the steps for granting read, write, or no access to members of secured dimensions using Data Access Profiles
- Identify how to designate the Owner dimension
- Recognize the process for selecting work status dimensions at the model level
- Differentiate between the two work status settings
- Identify the methods for creating, editing, and deleting a work status
- Recognize the method for utilizing the Change Work Status settings
- Identify the process for generating a work status report
- Publication and Distribution
- Differentiate between Portal Publication and Book Publication
- Recognize the steps in the process for publishing documents using Portal Publication
- Identify the method for producing a report using the EPM Pane
- Identify the steps for creating a book template
- Identify the process for modifying the properties of a book
- Differentiate between the dimension selector types in book publication and distribution
- Recognize how to select dimensions using the Dimension Selector
- Identify the steps for saving a book template
- Recognize the steps involved in publishing a book of reports
- Identify the correct method for creating a distribution template
- Identify the purpose and process for performing validation on a book or distribution template
- Recognize the steps involved in distributing and collecting reports and input forms
- Identify the correct steps for utilizing the EPM Add-ins for Word and PowerPoint to create BPC Reports
- Processes and Audit
- Differentiate between Process Templates and Process Instances
- Recognize the steps for using a process to run a sequence of application tasks
- Recognize the use of the Process Context to set dimensions
- Identify required dimensions and properties when creating Processes
- Identify the correct method for creating a new Process Template
- Recognize the correct method for configuring process template settings
- Identify the process for creating a workspace within a process template
- Identify the steps involved in opening, archiving, deploying and validating a process template
- Recognize the method for creating a new process instance
- Recognize the steps for administering a process instance
- Identify the steps involved in configuring auditing
- Recognize the steps for generating audit reports
- Intro to Logic
- Identify when different types of logic are used
- Identify the steps for creating worksheet logic
- Recognize the purpose and method for assigning dimension logic to a member
- Identify the purpose for adding the FORMULA property to a dimension
- Recognize the steps for writing script logic to logic files to perform calculations
- Identify the uses for different keywords used in script logic
- Recognize the purpose of scoping in script logic
- Differentiate between methods for executing script logic
- Identify the purpose of the Allocation Engine for performing complex allocations
- Recognize the keywords used with the Allocation Engine
- Identify the steps involved in adding and configuring global business rules
- Identify the steps involved in adding rules and rule types for business rules for models
- Differentiate between the types of Account-Based calculations
Take Away Training Materials:
- PDF of presentation
Software:
- SAP Planning and Consolidation 10.1 NetWeaver Standard
Advanced Preparation:
- None
CPE Credits for Onsite Training (Group Live) and Virtual Classroom (Group Internet Based):
- 5 CPE credits per course.