What You Need to Know About BW-BPS

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What You Need to Know About BW-BPS

Published: 01/June/2005

Reading time: 7 mins

Learn about SAP’s Business Planning and Simulation (BPS) and why it now is a part of SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI). In addition, find out what has changed in BW-BPS from SEM-BPS and get an overview of your upgrade options. Key Concept SAP’s Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) is a module that provides strategic planning…

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