Sap Enterprise Performance Management Epm Add-in : Managing Your Business With Excel

In our dynamic business environment reporting, planning and analysis are more relevant than ever. The SAP EPM Excel Add-In is a business enabler. This book will provide useful information to jumpstart project implementations and facilitate end-user training in practical manner. Understand key features and concepts that the EPM Add-in brings to the table.

Walk through a detailed case study and examples to familiarize yourself with the SAP EPM Excel Add-in features and functions within the context of a business example. This book was written with a broad audience in mind and will appeal to different implementation roles ranging from consultants to business users, and architects to planners. For entry-level and seasoned SAP practitioners alike, this book will serve as a reference guide that distills years of experience and focuses on some of the most frequently used features in successful implementation projects. This book offers tips, tricks, and time savers that you can immediately apply.

• Learn about the Connection Concept
• Familiarize yourself with the SAP EPM Add-In for Excel and BPC 10.1
• Create a basic report from scratch
• Walk through a detailed case Study

Kermit Bravo is a Consultant at TruQua Enterprises, LLC, and offers deep techno-functional savvy in SAP, Banking, and Finance. Kermit started his career at IBM as a Project Management Financial Analyst before moving into a SAP FICO consultant position within the organization. For four years, he worked designing and developing financial solutions to help deliver value to customers. He left IBM in 2014 to join TruQua Enterprises as a BPC Consultant. While at IBM, Kermit specialized in FICO and in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. He has a Masters in Finance with the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico and a Masters in Banking from the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Scott Cairncross is a partner and co-founder of TruQua Enterprises, LLC. TruQua is an SAP software and services partner specializing in solving complex analytical problems within the enterprise. Scott is an expert in cross-industry planning and financial consolidation processes with deep product knowledge of SAP BPC (both Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver versions), SAP HANA, SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects. He also specializes in user experience design and cloud-based developments and deployments. Scott has a proven track record in software development and project delivery of SAP solutions that are high-performing, provide long term customer value, reduce traditional SAP implementation costs, and lower total cost of maintenance. With project charters to improve both management effectiveness and operational efficiency, Scott has been through many full-life-cycle implementations at Fortune 100 companies. Scott has spoken regularly over the past decade at various events focusing on optimizing enterprise performance management such as SAP Insider, SAPPHIRE, ASUG, SAP d-Code (formerly TechEd) and others.