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Unleashing SAP Data for Improved Decision Making with Applix TM1

This event requires the WebEx player. To download the player, please copy and paste http://support.webex.com/support/downloads.html into your browser. Many companies have difficulty utilizing the financial information resident in SAP to operationally and financially manage, control and forecast product related expenditures. This is especially true when tracking the financial effectiveness of individual projects by product utilizing the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) of SAP. This was the challenge for the advertising and promotional areas within Bristol-Myers Squibb. Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global multi-billion pharmaceutical company with significant spending on advertising and promotion of its products. As a consequence, the budgeting, controlling and most of all, the forecasting of these expenditures over time, were a series of disjointed processes involving numerous Excel spreadsheets passed between Marketing and Finance throughout the planning cycles. The problem needed immediate resolution. What you will learn: How to utilize Applix TM1 to access data from SAP WBS to provide meaningful reporting summarizations, consolidations, comparative analytics and basic expense controls using a pure Excel front end for detailed individual products and/or projects How BMS totally revamped and systematized its processes for greater analytical integrity in a rapid approval process cycle, thus resulting in significant dollars saved How Applix TM1 can extend and complement your SAP investment, allowing easy access to financial information for: End-users to run ad-hoc financial reports without burdening IT Enable direct data input Easily integrate SAP data with Excel