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Software Requirements

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Contents

SAP Strategic Financial Planning rapid-deployment solution: Software Requirements

1Required Product Versions and Software Components

1.1Additional specifications for hardware, databases, and operating systems

2System Landscape

SAP Strategic Financial Planningrapid-deployment solution: Software Requirements

1Required Product Versions and Software Components

The table in this section list all software required to implement and run the solutionfor the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation version for the Microsoft platform:

Rapid-deployment solutionsoftware requirements for Microsoft environment

Product / Product Version / Component / Logical Component in SAP Solution Manager (Note 2) / Comments
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation / Version 10.0
Service Pack 10 or above / Version for SAP Microsoft / N/A / Platform for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application (design and runtime)
SAP EPM add-in for Microsoft Excel / Version 10.0
Service Pack 14 or above / Client component / N/A / Platform for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application (design and runtime)
Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 for Microsoft .NET (required for EPM add-in for Excel) / Version 3.0 / SAP EPM add-in for Microsoft® Excel / N/A / Platform for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application
SAP Solution Manager / ST-RDS 100 plus latest SP level / Not relevant / Not relevant / Documentation only

The logical component in SAP Solution Manager is an identifier provided by SAP for the combination of product and product version. After selecting the SAP Solution Manager template, the logical component provided by SAP is automatically mapped with the logical component in the customer system landscape. It has the same combination of product and product version to set up access from SAP Solution Manager to the correct customer system.

1.1Additional specifications for hardware, databases, and operating systems

Requirement for hardware and supported operating systems & databases for the analytic application are based on the requirements for each of the software components detailed in the previous table. For more information refer to the Product Availability Matrix (PAM) on the Service Marketplace for each of the required components.

2System Landscape

The SAP Strategic Financial Planning rapid-deployment solution uses SAP Business Planning and Consolidation version for the Microsoft platform. The following diagramdisplaysa high-level architecture for the environment.

High-Level Architecture - Strategic Financial Planning on SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform.

The rapid-deployment solution delivers prepackaged best practice content for strategic financial planning using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation version for the Microsoft platform.