SAP Financial Close and Disclosure Management rapid-deployment solution: Software and Delivery Requirements

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1 SAP Disclosure Management 10.1 July 2015 English SAP Financial Close and Disclosure Management rapid-deployment solution: Software and Delivery Requirements SAP SE Dietmar-Hopp-Allee Walldorf Germany

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4 Table of Contents Contents SAP Financial Close and Disclosure Management rapid-deployment solution: Software Requirements Purpose of the Document General Project Prerequisites Solution Options IFRS Options US GAAP Options Technical Requirements Required SAP Product and Software Component Versions Technical Requirements SAP Notes and additional solution-specific instructions Required Content System Landscape SAP SE Public Page 4 of 10

5 SAP Financial Close and Disclosure Management rapid-deployment solution: Software Requirements 1 Purpose of the Document This document contains all information to: Validate that key prerequisites such as software components and versions match the customer situation. Check that all prerequisites for a customer implementation are in place Check that correct content, tools and skills are in place before the project starts. The document will list requirements for all Scope Items included in the package. For requirements valid for certain scope items only, these scope items are mentioned. The document contains prerequisites only, not the procedures to meet them. For more information on downloading the solution content and configuration, see the Quick Guide for this rapiddeployment solution. 2 General Project Prerequisites The following prerequisites need to be in place before an implementation project can start. Prerequisite Kick off and workshop dates, location and attendees agreed team allocated with correct skills and training in place Project sponsors and stakeholder identified Hardware fully commissioned Software licenses in place Infrastructure team can respond to requests quickly enough e.g. CSS notes, BW content, patches, user requests, authorization changes and transports User interfaces agreed, for example, SAPGUI, SAP NetWeaver Business Client or Portal Remote access is in place for SAP consultants and SAP Active Global Support Decision made whether pre-assembled delivery will be used Decision made whether SAP Best Practices Solution Builder will be used to activate content. Decision made whether Solution Manager will be used. Solution Manager set up with any relevant templates. Tool for project repository and collaboration agreed Test management tool agreed Responsibility SAP SE Public Page 5 of 10

6 2.1 Solution Options There are two primary accounting frameworks, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP). Each has key differences affecting how results are prepared and reported. SAP Financial Close and Disclosure Management rapid-deployment solution provides an answer using either framework with additional options for systems landscape, depending on the accounting conventions required to be reported in your financial statements IFRS Options If you use the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) this rapid-deployment solution has 4 options for system landscape: 1. SAP Disclosure Management with SAP Financial Consolidation 2. SAP Disclosure Management with SAP Business Planning & Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver 3. SAP Disclosure Management with SAP Business Planning & Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform 4. SAP Disclosure Management with another consolidation system (external data) US GAAP Options If you use the United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) this rapiddeployment solution has 2 options for system landscape: 1. SAP Disclosure Management and SAP Business Planning & Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver 2. SAP Disclosure Management with external data The options you choose to implement will determine the technical system requirements. SAP SE Public Page 6 of 10

7 3 Technical Requirements This section contains technical requirements in different areas. For each requirement, the relevance for scope items of the package is provided. 3.1 Required SAP Product and Software Component Versions The table lists the software required to implement and run the solution (dependent upon options): Product Product Version Component Comments Options explained in Sections 2.1 SAP Financial Consolidation 10.0 Not applicable Required for: IFRS Option 1 SAP Financial Consolidation Excel add-in 10.0 Not applicable Required for: IFRS Option 1 SAP Business Planning & Consolidation* NW 10.1 Or MS 10.0 Not applicable Required for: IFRS Option 2 & 3 US GAAP Option 1 SAP NetWeaver 7.31 or later BI_CONT 747 or above BP-BW 731V3 or above NW731 for BPC10.0 NW740 for BPC10.1 Required for: IFRS Option 3 US GAAP Option 1 SAP BusinessObjects EPM Excel add-in 10.0 Not applicable Required for: IFRS Option 2 & 3 US GAAP Option 1 SAP Disclosure Management 10.1 Server and Client Required for all options SAP Disclosure Management XBRL Mapper FUJITSU Interstage XWand Taxonomy Editor 10.1 Not applicable Required for all options CR13 Not applicable Required for all options Microsoft Office Excel 2003 or higher Not applicable Required for all options SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0 SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Optional if mobile reporting used SAP HANA* 1.0 revision* Not applicable Optional* SAP Solution Builder 70 Version9 BP_SOLBLD Optional *This solution may leverage the functionality of SAP HANA as the underlying database (SAP HANA 1.0) when using SAP NetWeaver. If you decide to use SAP HANA: SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 require SAP HANA 1.0 Patch 70 (or higher) SAP SE Public Page 7 of 10

8 3.2 Technical Requirements This solution provides RDS contents and configuration for setting up your system for either IFRS or US GAAP reporting. Additional technical requirement for using the Content: SAP Business Planning and Consolidation EPM add-in for Microsoft Office The RDS content is shipped with Excel reports leveraging the SAP EPM Excel add-in. The RDS content requires SAP Planning and Consolidation, add-in for Microsoft Office version 10.0 with Support Package 16 and build 8602 (10.0 SP 16 NET 4) or any higher version to be restored and operated. Microsoft Office The RDS content is shipped with Excel reports leveraging the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation add-in for Microsoft Office. Most of these reports use the latest specific Microsoft Excel 2007 features in terms of calculation formulas, themes for cell formats and conditional formatting. Therefore, it is mandatory to install Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010 on client computers to use these Excel reports 3.3 SAP Notes and additional solution-specific instructions The following SAP Notes must be implemented for the particular options using that application. SAP Notes referring to software not used with your option can be skipped: SAP Note # Description Component Area Remark This SAP Note contains critical information for implementing the SAP Best Practices for EPM, which are the basis for the system pre-configuration related to the SAP Financial Close and Disclosure Management rapiddeployment solution. Before you start the activation of the related SAP Best Practices scope, check the latest versions of this SAP Note. All Scope Items SAP Business Planning & Consolidation 10.1 NW SP02 Patch 01 Central Note Primary Component: EPM-BPC-NW- WEB Secondary Component: EPM-BPC-NW Activation SAP Note contains additional information on the installation and documentation of this rapid-deployment solution. Only relevant for option 3. Additional SAP Notes are dependent on the system configuration you use. SAP SE Public Page 8 of 10

9 3.4 Required Content The following content is required: Product Product Version Components as tested Solution Manager Component Comments Relevance SAP Best Practices Configuration Content (for SAP BW and SAP NetWeaver) BP-BW 731V6 or above BP-BW None Add-ons containing configuration content All Scope Items SAP SE Public Page 9 of 10

10 3.5 System Landscape System landscape Front-end reporting tools (Dashboards, Web portal ) SAP Disclosure Management IFRS or US GAAP consolidation SAP Financial Consolidation SAP Planning & Consolidation for Microsoft SAP Planning & Consolidation for NetWeaver Other consolidation source Financial Information Management SAP Financial Information Management BW Relational Database SAP HANA (optional) 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 1 Figure 1: System Landscape for the rapid-deployment solution including all options Options The options shown in the diagram provide the basic 4 approaches for this solution. SAP Disclosure Management is used to file reports based on financial close or consolidation data from: OPTION 1: SAP Financial Consolidation OPTION 2: SAP Business Planning & Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform OPTION 3: SAP Business Planning & Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver OPTION 4: From other consolidation sources (External Data) SAP Disclosure Management produces Document and Entry Information (DEI) and extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) for reporting. SAP SE Public Page 10 of 10