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James Willis

November, 2014

Route to SAP Simple Finance Real Time Insight for a Volatile World

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Route to SAP Simple Finance

1. Introduction

2. What is SAP Simple Finance

3. Routes to Simple Finance

– Side by Side

– Step by step

– Go direct

4. Summary

CF

O

Today’s Volatile World Needs Strong CFOs

Steward

Business

Partner

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Accounting and

Financial Close

Financial Planning

and Analysis

Treasury and

Financial Risk

Management

Collaborative

Finance Operations

Enterprise Risk

and Compliance

Management

Collaborative

Invoice to Pay

Travel Management

Receivables Management Enterprise Risk

Management

Controls and Compliance

Management

Access Governance

Accounting

Entity Close

Corporate Close

Develop and Translate

Strategy

Planning, Budgeting and

Forecasting

Profitability and Cost

Management

Payments and Bank

Communications

Cash and Liquidity

Management

Debt and Investment

Management

Monitoring and Reporting Reporting and Disclosure

Financial Close

Governance

Commodity Risk

Management

Financial Shared Services Financial Risk

Management

International Trade

Management


LOB Finance Value Map

Fraud Management

Audit Management


1. Introduction



– Side by Side

– Step by step

– Go direct

4. Summary


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Transforming Through Innovation and Customer

Focus

Transact Analyze Accelerate Transactions + Analysis

directly in-memory

VS.

SAP’s In-Memory Data Management Innovation

Providing Real-time Platform for Enterprise Applications

A common Database Approach for OLTP and

OLAP Using an In-Memory Column Database Hasso Plattner

Cache

SAP

In-Memory

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Instant Insight

in memory-enabled

Intuitive User Experience

all devices

Flexible and Non-disruptive

cloud or on premise

Introducing SAP Simple Finance

” “ The world’s leading Finance solutions reinvented

Financial Planning

and Analysis

Treasury and

Financial Risk

Enterprise Risk

and Compliance

Accounting and

Financial Close

Finance

Operations

1 block = 10 data objects

Data Storage Simplification Example – This picture shows the number of data structures

in “classic” SAP ERP for SAP Financials

1 block = 10 data objects

Data Storage Simplification Example – This picture shows the number of data structures

in SAP Financials using

… HANA!


Introducing SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA

Logistics

Document

CO

Document

FI

Document

Totals & Indices

Financial Accounting

Totals & Indices

Management Account.

From … Stability

Processing

Analytics

CO Document

FI Document

Flexibility

HANA views on the fly

Pre-Defined Aggregates

Flexibility

Stability

Processing

Analytics

Logical document

Logistics

Document

… To

Customer

benefits

Harmonized

internal and

external

reporting

Account driven

data model

Significantly

reduced

reconciliation

effort

Higher flexibility

in reporting and

data

customization

Significantly

reduced

memory

consumption



Reporting Flexibility

User-defined reporting

Users can explore data on the fly by

restricting financial statements to self-

defined data sub-segments

SAP will continue to provide standard

reports but with focus on frequently used

reports

Available information

All record dimensions can be used for

segmentation

Unrestricted selection of multiple

dimensions for segmentation

Customer-specific dimensions can be

easily added and are available for

segmentation



Single Source

of Truth

Real-time

Processes

Dynamic Planning

and Analysis

?

Σ Σ Σ

Transforming Finance with Instant Insight

” “ Instant insight-to-action based on real-time information


Instant Insight

in memory-enabled


all devices


cloud or on premise



Financial Planning

and Analysis

Treasury and

Financial Risk

Enterprise Risk

and Compliance

Accounting and

Financial Close

Finance

Operations


1. Introduction



– Side by Side

– Step by step

– Go direct

4. Summary



Customer Roadmap to SAP Simple Finance - Example

” “ Adopting SAP Simple Finance is a journey – start early

Side-by-side SAP

HANA Acceleration

• SAP HANA accelerators,

BW, BPC, GRC

SAP Business Suite on

SAP HANA

• SAP ERP on SAP HANA

• SAP ERP in SAP HANA

Enterprise Cloud

SAP Accounting

Powered By SAP HANA

• Simple Finance add-on/

Simple base package for

SAP HANA Enterprise

Cloud

• Central Finance

Key Value Scenarios

• Smart business cockpits

• SAP Business Planning

and Consolidation 10.1

• SAP Cash Management

powered by SAP HANA*

• SAP Working Capital

Analytics

• SAP Fraud Management

* planned


Real Time Working Capital Management

Real Time Receivables Management

Real Time Working Capital Analytics

What is the

status of my key

drivers of

working capital

like DSO or

DPO?

How can I

accelerate cash

collection to

improve DSO?



1. Introduction



– Side by Side

– Step by step

– Go direct

4. Summary




Side-by-side SAP

HANA Acceleration


BW, BPC, GRC


SAP HANA



Enterprise Cloud

SAP Accounting

Powered By SAP HANA



SAP HANA Enterprise

Cloud

• Central Finance

Key Value Scenarios







Analytics


* planned

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Period End Close Intercompany Reconciliation on the Fly

FBICR3

Reconcile Documents

FBICS3

Select Documents

FBICA3

Assign Documents Automatically

New user experience Improved data drill

down

Reduced time to close

books Improved and accelerated

automated matching

No more batch jobs, real time

analysis supports continuous

intra-period process execution

Improved user experience and

enhanced data drill down

reduce manual reconciliation

effort

Better process oversight

through new management

dashboard


SAP Financials Add-On

1. Introduction



– Side by Side

– Step by step

– Go direct

4. Summary

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Side-by-side SAP

HANA Acceleration


BW, BPC, GRC


SAP HANA



Enterprise Cloud

SAP Accounting

Powered By SAP HANA



SAP HANA Enterprise

Cloud

• Central Finance

Key Value Scenarios







Analytics


* planned


One central finance platform for the entire

group with full line item detail

Real-time analysis directly from

operational data

On-the-fly analysis without system

limitations from pre-built aggregates

Built-in harmonization between financial

and managerial accounting


SAP Accounting Powered by SAP HANA

” “ Insight from a single source of truth – flexible and harmonized

Close Books Faster $ Improve Working Capital Prevent Fraud

Real-time Processes Of SAP Simple Finance

Plan More Dynamically



1. Introduction



– Side by Side

– Step by step

– Go direct

4. Summary


Instant Insight

in memory-enabled


all devices


cloud or on premise



Financial Planning

and Analysis

Treasury and

Financial Risk

Enterprise Risk

and Compliance

Accounting and

Financial Close

Finance

Operations


One system, one platform

Standard technologies: SQL, HTML 5

Reduced memory footprint

Faster adoption of innovation

Application management as service

Deployment flexibility and scalability

Tables and reports still accessible (virtualized)

No re-configuration of solution

Migration anytime within reporting period

Simplified System

Landscape

Cloud

Deployment

Non-disruptive

Migration

Benefits of SAP Simple Finance for IT

” “ Lower complexity, lower TCO – without disruption

Thank You


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