BI Integrated Planning provides business experts with an infrastructure for realizing and operating planning scenarios or other applications. Planning covers a wide range of topics from simple data entry to complex planning scenarios.

Business planning allows developers to create and operate planning scenarios or other applications.

Business planning provides the following planning tools for these purposes:

• BI Integrated Planning, a solution that is completely integrated into the BI system
• BW-BPS (Business Planning and Simulation)

SAP Business Intelligence Integrated Planning (SAP BI-IP) provides the standard allocation formulas which are used for basic allocation requirement. For more complex business cases, standard formulas are not able to fulfill the requirement and in this case FOX which comes with SAP BI-IP can fulfill the complex development requirements.