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On this page, you will find helpful information and resources on all SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning topics including:
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Plan Entry & Analysis
- Advanced Planning & Modeling
- Plan Workflow & Collaboration
- Predictive Planning
Introduction to Enterprise Planning
In today's economy, the need for visibility and agility in regards to business plans has increased exponentially, intensifying the focus on Enterprise Planning. Simultaneously, cloud computing has moved from leading edge to mainstream. These two forces have led to a new era of Enterprise Planning called Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A). xP&A eliminates the traditional barriers between finance and operations, and connects strategic, financial, and operational plans in real time. For more information about xP&A and our pre-built Business Content, please visit our new xP&A Business Content Community Page.
SAP Analytics Cloud for planning enables extended planning and analysis (xP&A), allowing you to crowdsource plans across your business, create accurate forecasts and drive better business outcomes. Make agile planning and analysis decisions with one enterprise solution!
- Playbook: SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning - Exploring Common Use Cases
- Product page: Financial Planning & Analysis solutions from SAP
- Blog: SAPβs Strategy for Enterprise Planning
- Video: Explore SAP Analytics Cloud for planning: Simulate Future Outcomes
- Blog: How to Make the Most of Your SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning Free Trial
- Blog: SAP a Visionary in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud FP&A Solutions
- Help: Planning

Getting Started
- View all SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning Blogs
- View all SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning Questions
- Article: Get Started with Planning
- Videos playlist: SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
- Webinar: End-to-End Planning Capabilities using SAP Analytics Cloud
- Webinar: Get Started with SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
- Video: Plan Smarter with SAP Analytics Cloud | SAP TechEd 2020
- Webinar: Financial Statement Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Webinar: Best Practices for SAP Analytics Cloud for planning General Troubleshooting
- Blog: Make the Most of Your SAP Analytics Cloud for planning Free Trial
- Blog: Building User Intuitive Stories in SAP Analytics Cloud (Tips & Tricks)
- Free Course: OpenSAP course on SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
- π‘ Free Course: OpenSAP course on Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud β Advanced Topics
- Training Course: SACP20 - SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
- Training Course: SACP30 - SAP Analytics Cloud: Integrated Planning
- Help: Features by License Type for Planning Models
- Help: Features by License Type for Analytic Models
- Use Case: Reconciliation from HGB or Local GAAP to IFRS with SAP Analytics Cloud
Best Practices published by SAP Analytics Cloud Product Management
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning: Leveraging Stories
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning: Modeling Checklist
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning: Optimizing Calculations
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning: Quantity Unit Conversion
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning: a few β no longer kept β secrets about Security

Plan Entry & Analysis
- Video: How to Create Planning Models from Blank Models
- Blog: SAC Allocation Series β Introduction
- Blog: Intro to Planning Allocations
- Blog: Consuming planning model in Story and creating Plan Version from Actual in SAC
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud β Validation Rules for Proper Data Entry
- Blog: Creating Dynamic Version over Version and Time Reporting (Column over Column)
- Webinar: Getting the most out of Allocations in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Webinar: How SAP Analytics Cloud enables Driver Based Planning
- Video: Value Driver Tree Highlights (Part 1)
- Video: Value Driver Tree Highlights (Part 2)
- Video: Value Driver Tree Highlights (Part 3)
- Blog: Inverse formulas and the Value Driver Tree to perform "What if" analysis
- Webinar: Tailoring Your Planning Solution with Analytics Designer
- Blog: Planning Analytic Application β Toggle table values with a mouse click
- Use Case: Custom Planning Application: Planning projects and distributing the charges across fiscal periods
- Use Case: Custom Planning Application with Approval Process (SAP Analytics Cloud, Analytic Application)
- Help: About Planning Data Entry Errors
- π Blog: Release of Fluid Data Entry β QRC2 Highlight

Advanced Planning & Modeling
- Webinar: SAP Analytics Cloud Advanced Planning
- Webinar: Advanced Features in SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
- Blog: Step by step guide to create a Planning Model in SAP Analytics Cloud using Excel file
- Blog: Topdown-BottomUp planning with SAP Analytics Cloud alternative hierarchies
- Blog: Create a Profit & Loss Statement in SAP Analytics Cloud importing data from an Excel file
- Video: SAP Analytics Cloud: Solve Complex Planning Scenarios with Advanced Formulas
- Blog: Creating Dynamic Version over Version with System Date Dynamic Time Reporting
- Blog: Calculating Variance using Cross Calculations
- Webinar: How to Optimize Currency Conversion in SAP Analytics Cloud Planning
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud & Currency Conversion (Part 1)
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud & Currency Conversion (Part 2)β―
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud & Currency Conversion (Part 3)
- Blog: SAP Analytics Cloud Planning - Linking Dimension Member with Property
- Article: How to export planning data from models in SAP Analytics Cloud?
- Video: Create and use parameters in data actions
- Help: Get to Know Data Actions for Planning

Plan Workflow & Collaboration
- Blog: Enrich your planning process with the new workflow capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud
- π‘ Blog: See how SAP Analytics Cloud Multi Actions change the way that you do planning
- Blog: Multi-level approval in SAP Analytics Cloud using Calendar Tasks
- Video: How to Manage Versions and Categories for Planning
- Video: Explore Planning: Collaborate Continuously with SAP Analytics Cloud
- Article: Collaboration in SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
- Webinar: Collaborate Effortlessly with the Planning Calendar
- Blog: Overview of Planning Processes with SAP Analytics Cloud Calendar
- π₯ Blog: Enablement Material for SAP Analytics Cloud Calendar
- Help: Use the Calendar to Organize Your Collaborative Planning Processes

Predictive Planning
SAP Analytics Cloud Predictive Planning provides the ability to automate data-driven enterprise planning with time series forecasting, through a tight integration. In practice, predictive scenarios can consume planning models as a data source. They can use not only the actuals but also the semantic richness of the concepts that are built in the planning model. The predictive models are βwhite boxesβ with full transparency. Easy to understand predictive insights together with quality indicators are accessible in the model debriefing. Additionally, SAP Analytics Cloud Predictive Planning should be understood as part of a bigger, end-to-end planning process where the predictive forecasts are reported in stories and financial planners add their business judgment to revise them.
For more details on predictive planning, visit Predictive Planning on the Augmented Analytics expert page