August 18, 2026
What this webinar is about
Do you have planning inputs that aren’t quite as flexible or functional as you’d like? Asymmetric reporting in SAP Analytics Cloud is usually filed under reporting, but it has just as much to offer your planning process. Most planning templates start life as a rigid grid: every row crossed with every column, whether or not that intersection means anything. The result is input forms padded with cells nobody should be filling in, and the workarounds finance teams build to route around them.
Asymmetric reporting changes what that form can look like. In 30 minutes, Mike Sullivan walks through the use cases where it adds real value to planning — because despite the name, this is not only a reporting feature.
If you have already looked at scaling planning inputs across a large model, this session picks up where that leaves off. Our earlier piece on smarter ways to scale planning inputs across thousands of intersections covers the modelling side; here the focus is narrower and more practical: what changes once the input form itself is no longer a fixed grid.
What you will learn about asymmetric reporting
- What asymmetric reporting actually is in SAP Analytics Cloud, and why it is not only for reporting
- How to build planning input forms that are not locked into a rigid row × column grid
- Practical use cases where it removes manual workarounds from the planning process
- What to watch for when you apply it to your own planning templates
Who should attend
- CFOs and VPs of Finance
- FP&A Directors and Managers
- Financial planning and budgeting leads
- SAP Analytics Cloud planning modellers
- Anyone maintaining planning input templates
Why attend
Thirty minutes, one sharp idea. If your planning templates have become a grid of mostly empty cells, and a set of manual workarounds to cope with them, this session shows what the alternative looks like and where asymmetric reporting is worth applying first.
Your speaker
Associate Client Partner EPM at SimpleFi. A tenured EPM expert and practice leader, Mike previously ran EPM consulting practices at Kepion and Column 5.
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August 18th, 2026, 10:00 AM CT
Duration: 30 Min
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