SAP BPC Resources

Your guide to SAP BPC resources from Opal Wave


SAP provides a set of essential resource documents on BPC, but due to the sheer volume of materials (and how they are organised) it can sometimes be difficult, time consuming, and frustrating to find exactly what you are looking for.

To help, we’ve put together a section in our website what materials are available, at least the most commonly used ones, and where they can be found. There is also a separate list of nearly 100 SAP sites containing BPC and EPM materials.

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There is also a bookmark file containing the links discussed in this article that can be imported into Internet Explorer. Please note that the attached bookmark file has been tested on IE 11 only, but is likely to work on other versions. It is used at your own risk.

The main SAP portals that provide information on BPC are:

  • The Help portal
  • The Support portal
  • SAP Community
  • Blogs
  • Idea Place

Please note that a valid SAP ID is required to access many parts of these portals; this can be provided by your organisation’s SAP Administrator.

The Help Portal

The Help Portal is accessed here and contains the bulk of the formal product reference information that is published by SAP, including:

  • Product help pages
  • Product documentation i.e. manuals
  • Documentation for the IFRS and USGAAP starter kits

A list of links to the BPC and other EPM content is in the attached workbook.

The Support Portal

The Support Portal is accessed here and contains many items including:

  • SAP Notes and Knowledge Base search
  • Product Availability Matrix (PAM)
  • Software Download Centre (SWDC)

If you’ve not come across them before, SAP Notes are short documents issued by SAP that address a specific issue, and PAM shows release planning information for SAP products.

SAP Community

The SAP Community portal is accessed here and contains a variety of “information needed for troubleshooting and learning about [BPC]” including:

  • Product news
  • Technical information
  • Featured SAP Notes
  • “How-to” guides for all EPM products
  • The “EPM add-in academy”

BPC Blogs

SAP blogs are accessed here. BPC blogs can be found using the search function or by using SAP product tags as shown in the attached list of hyperlinks. In addition, a full list of SAP product tags can be found here.

The articles on the blog pages can be filtered by “blog” or “question”, and the separate answers pages are here.

The Blog pages are an essential source of product news (for example).

Idea Place

The Idea Place is accessed here and enables users to submit enhancement requests to SAP for functionality to be incorporated into existing products.

Sap documentation

SAP BPC Product Documentation

For reference purposes the main help pages (for example) contain links to a great deal of product documentation.

Bpc wiki

SAP BPC Wiki Pages

Provide an indispensable portal to BPC and EPM information that is not covered by the reference manuals (for example). This content includes product news and technical information.

SAP EPM Use Guide

The EPM plug-in/add-in user guide is regularly updated and is an essential source of reference for anyone developing EPM templates. It can be accessed via the AO help page here.

The Blog pages are an essential source of product news (for example).

Opal Wave SAP Links


SAP General

BPC product page

Need SAP ID? No
Link

Support Portal

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

Early Knowledge Transfer

Need SAP ID? No
Link

ONE Support Launchpad

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

SAP Note and Knowledge Base Article Search

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

Glossary

Need SAP ID? No
Link

List of SAP Blog tags

Need SAP ID? No
Link

Community wiki

Need SAP ID? No
Link

Software Download Center

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link


BPC v11

BPC v11 Main help page

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC v11 “What’s new guide”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC v11 “Feature Scope Description”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC v11 “Conversion Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC v11 “Master Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC v11 “Installation Guide for Modeling Tools”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC v11 “Administrator’s Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC v11 “Security Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC v11 Embedded Application Help

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC v11 Standard Application Help

Need SAP ID? No
Link

Application Help for SAP BW/4HANA

Need SAP ID? No
Link


BPC NW General

BPC NW document archive

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC NW community

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC NW Wiki space

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC NW (tagged) blogs

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC NW (tagged) community questions

Need SAP ID? No
Link


BPC NW v10.1

BPC NW v10.1 Main help page

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC NW v10.1 “What’s new guide”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC NW v10.1 “Master Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC NW v10.1 “Installation Guide” (BW 7.4)

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC NW v10.1 “Installation Guide” (BW 7.50/7.51)

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC NW v10.1 “Upgrade Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC NW v10.1 “Security Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC NW v10.1 Application Help

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC S4/HANA Application Help

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC NW v10.1 “Documentation Addendum” (SAP Note 2030418)

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link


IFRS

IFRS Starter kit “Installation Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

IFRS Starter kit “Configuration Overview”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

IFRS Starter kit “Configuration Overview (appendix)”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

IFRS Starter kit “Operating Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link


USGAAP

USGAAP Starter kit “Release notes”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

USGAAP Starter kit “Installation Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

USGAAP Starter kit “Configuration Design”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

USGAAP Starter kit “Configuration Overview”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

USGAAP Starter kit “Configuration Overview (appendix)”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

USGAAP Starter kit “Data Entry Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

USGAAP Starter kit “Operating Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link


BPC MS General

BPC MS community

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC MS Wiki space

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC MS (tagged) blogs

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC MS (tagged) community questions

Need SAP ID? No
Link


MS v10.1

BPC MS v10.1 Main help page

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC MS v10.1 “Master Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC MS v10.1 “Installation Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC MS v10.1 “Upgrade Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC MS v10.1 “Administrator’s Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC MS v10 “EvDRE User’s Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC MS v10.0 “Partition Wizard User’s Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC MS v10.0 “Server Extension User’s Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC MS v10.1 “Sizing Guidelines”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

Troubleshooting SSL

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC MS v10.1 “Security Guide”

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

BPC MS v10.1 Application Help

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC MS v10.1 “Documentation Addendum” (SAP Note 2105245)

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link


AO Add-in

AO Add-in main help page

Need SAP ID? No
Link

AO “What’s new guide”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

“Analysis Plug-in User Guide”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

“EPM Plug-in User Guide”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

“SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Plug-in”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

AO “Administrator Guide”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

“How to Work with Activities” (video)

Need SAP ID? No
Link

“How to Customise User Interface Areas” (video)

Need SAP ID? No
Link

SAP Analysis Developer Forums on SCN

Need SAP ID? No
Link

SCN Tutorials

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link


EPM Add-in

EPM Add-in main help page

Need SAP ID? No
Link

EPM Add-in “What’s new”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

EPM Add-in “Installation Guide”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

EPM Add-in “Upgrade Guide”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

EPM Add-in “User Guide”

Need SAP ID? No
Link

EPM Add-in Academy

Need SAP ID? No
Link

SAP Community – EPM Add-in

Need SAP ID? No
Link

EPM how-to guides

Need SAP ID? No
Link

EPM WIKI home

Need SAP ID? No
Link

EPM Add-in WIKI

Need SAP ID? No
Link


BPC Blogs

Blogs (search for BPC)

Need SAP ID? No
Link

BPC blogs (discontinued)

Need SAP ID? No
Link


PAM

SAP Product Availability Matrix (PAM)

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

PAM BPC v11

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

PAM BPC NW v10.1

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link

PAM BPC MS v10.1

Need SAP ID? Yes
Link


Design Studio

How to call a Design Studio app from a BPC v10.1 BPF

Need SAP ID? No
Link

SAP Design Studio tutorials

Need SAP ID? No
Link


Influence (was “Idea Place”)

Influence home (was “Idea Place”)

Need SAP ID? No
Link

Continuous Influence Session for AO (was Idea Place for AO)

Need SAP ID? No
Link