What is Transformation file in SAP BPC?

What is Transformation file in SAP BPC?

Transformation file provides the mapping of fields from BW to BPC and is an excel file in BPC. It contains transaction data from Info Objects in BW with BPC dimensions defined in administration console.

What are the two versions available for SAP BPC?

This means there are about 4 different versions of SAP BPC available today, depending on how you count:

• SAP BPC 10.1 NetWeaver Standard on HANA, Oracale, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, DBMAX.
• SAP BPC 10.1 NetWeaver Embedded on HANA.
• SAP BPC Optimized for S/4HANA.
• SAP BPC 10.1 Microsoft.

What are transformation files?

Transformation files allow administrators to set up the rules for reading data from an external source and putting it in the proper form for your BPC database. Transformation files are Microsoft Excel files that contain one worksheet, named Instructions.

How do I upload a flat file in SAP BPC?

Master data loading from Flat file

1. Step1: Log on to the BPC Excel. Open excel and click on the tab EPM and click on Log on radio button.
2. Step 2: Upload data. In this step we are uploading our master data file into application server.
3. Step 3: Create a transformation file.
4. Step 4: Run the DM package.

Is SAP BPC on premise?

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is embedded within SAP S/4HANA on-premise, enabling real time plan to actual analysis and consolidations.

Why is BPC embedded?

BPC Embedded model is based on Business Warehouse-Integrated Planning (BW-IP) in which it uses BW objects directly. Using SAP HANA allows to perform certain planning functions like copy, distribute, etc. BPC-Integration planning supports the use of real-time InfoProviders and aggregations levels.

Is BPC part of BW?

SAP S/4HANA has an embedded BW 7.5 system which also includes SAP BPC 10.1 for planning and consolidation. Both products (SAP BPC 10.1 add-on for S/4HANA and BPC 11.0 for BW/4HANA) are totally independent and run on different platforms.

What is consolidation in BPC?

SAP BPC Consolidation module is used to manage and prepare consolidated data and provides a correct view of consolidated data in an organization. Consolidation module also provides an environment to perform consolidation tasks over the web. It contains Ownership Manager to manage ownership-based hierarchies.

Why do we transform data?

Data is transformed to make it better-organized. Transformed data may be easier for both humans and computers to use. Properly formatted and validated data improves data quality and protects applications from potential landmines such as null values, unexpected duplicates, incorrect indexing, and incompatible formats.