SAC - Currency Conversion in an Analytic Model with a BI License

[former_member361089]

Hi Community,

I have a question about Currency Conversion in SAC:

• With a BI License I can create an Analytic Model
• That Analytic Model can be enabled for Currency Conversion but ….
• A Currency Conversion table can seemingly only be created with a Planning License

So, how do you use Currency Conversion on an Analytic Model with a BI License if you can’t create a Currency Conversion table?

Interestingly I noticed that recently downloaded SAP Content for SAC, for example SAC Concur content, includes a Currency Conversion table that can be updated with Missing Rates and used by an Analytic Model. So, I can’t create a Currency Conversion table from scratch with a BI License, but I can download one as part of standard SAP Content and then use it and update it. This seems a bit strange.

Does anyone else have any experiences or thoughts around Currency Conversion in this situation?

Thanks

[Terry_Penner]

Hi Mark and Henry,

According to the licensing documentation , a user in your system would need a Planning Professional license to create and update currency conversion tables (search for "currency conversion" in the documentation link). A BI user would be able to view tables and charts based on the currency field tables and their converted values in reports.

Restating this, a user with the Planning Professional license would need to set up the data model and currency conversion table, and a BI user could view a story based on that data model.

[Henry_Banks]

Hi Mark

my understanding is that a Planner license would set it up, and a BI user would consume it.

nice observation about the Concur package - i wonder if that content is shipped with something like a lesser "Update" right on the file, rather than a "Maintain" keeps it in play as a BI license or, once the artifact (conversion table + model) has been published?

Not quite sure how that's been implemented. Need to check it out! Thanks for your help 😉

Kind regards,

H

p.s. terry.penner any steers you could provide here pls?!