Solutions for specific business needs

1. SAP Rapid-Deployment Solution for Public Sector Budgeting and PlanningSolution Summary, July 2012

2. Solutions for specific business needs Budget and Forecast in SAP EPM 10 • Need to control public spending efficiently • Greater budgetary pressures and demand for accountability and transparency • Need to make budgeting process more efficient and faster so government agencies can do more with less • Need to adapt budgeting methodology and templates without dependency on technical resources Load Actuals from Source Systems into SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Compare Budget and Forecast with Actuals in SAP EPM 10 Budgeting Cycle in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

3. Leverage SAP ERP transaction and master data for faster planning • Leverage existing SAP ERP data for building budget planning • Integrate content from SAP ERP into SAP Business Planning and Consolidation • Leverage best practice templates that contain public sector content in SAP ERP • Leverage actuals when completing a budget planning process • Leverage transaction and master data from SAP ERP to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation • Maintain master and transaction budget planning data in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation • Introduce basic budget planning activities, including input schedules, reporting, and analyses • SAP rapid-deployment solution for public sector budgeting and planning • The purpose of this rapid-deployment solution is to address a key planning need of SAP public sector customers. Customers want to leverage transaction and master data in SAP ERP, make planning flexible and integration easy.

4. What’s included – solution scope • The purpose of this rapid-deployment solution is to address key public sector budget planning needs. The solution leverages existing transaction and master data currently in SAP ERP, and helps make planning flexible and integration easy. • Rapidly access and leverage the funds management infrastructure in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for best-practice budget planning • Increase budget user adoption with a budget planning solution that leverages native Microsoft Office (Excel) and Web browsers and includes preconfigured planning templates. • Allow budget planning owners to set up budget planning-only data as needed • Quickly configure drill-through to relevant SAP ERP sources • Start collecting actuals and budget planning figures in a matter of weeks, not months

5. Target Implementation is 12 Weeks! • Addresses planning needs for government, universities, and NGOs • Delivers a production-ready application within weeks • Is based upon a baseline functionality and pre-deliverable reporting functionality • Delivers the value of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation to the organization • Delivers a high value solution for planning • Offers accurate, transparent, and timely information that can be used for confident decision making A special step-by-step guide describes each activity during the deployment

6. System requirements • Software requirements Software: • SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver 10.0, SAP NetWeaver SP5 or above • SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, V7.3 SP04 or above • SAP EPM solution add-in for Microsoft Excel V10.0 SP8 patch 4 or above • Web services enhancements (WSE) 3.0 for Microsoft.NET (required for EPM add-in for Microsoft Excel) Hardware, databases, and operating systems: • Requirements for hardware and supported operating systems and databases for this analytic application are based on the requirements for each of the software components listed above. • More information can be found using the product availability matrix (PAM) on the SAP Service Marketplace for each of the required components.

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