Financial Information Management - An overview
Purpose
This Wiki explains what Financial Information Management is, and provides useful links to other related information.
What is FIM
SAP Business Objects Financial Information Management (FIM) is a specialized ETL for the EPM applications, and provides connectivity to other SAP applications such as BW and ECC.It is part of the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Suite and provides a business encapsulation on top of SBOP Data ServicesIt has a user-friendly interface, dedicated transformation rules, and integrated business specific workflows specifically for its target audience, the business users
The purposes of FIM are:
* Move data between EPM suite applications
* Import data from not-EPM sources such as flat files, database tables, SAP ECC, SAP BW
FIM can load data to the following EPM solutions:
Strategy management
Business Planning and Consolidation
Financial consolidation
Intercompany reconciliation
Profitability and cost management
How to setup the specific EPM applications
In order to use FIM with the various SAP EPM solutions, specific settings and configurations may be needed.
Each of the following links below will have more information, specifically related to each EPM product:
Strategy management
Business planning and consolidation
Intercompany reconciliation
Profitability and cost management
EPM products use Datastores for their connections.