20th Oct 2015

Simple Finance – SAP S/4 HANA

Agenda

A quick overview Simple Finance, SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, Central Journal Scenario

Single Source of Truth Architecture of SAP Accounting powered by HANA Reporting Architecture Real Time Revolution Prerequisite to Deploy sFIN Current & Future Design Architecture Benefits for Customers

– Over the years, growth in transactional databases and other data sources as well their associated systems have complicated enterprise applications and infrastructure

– SAP S/4HANA is the short form for SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA. It brings the next big wave of SAP innovation to our customers, similar to the transition from SAP R/2 to SAP R/3.

Simple Finance aka sFIN aka SAP S/4 HANA

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SAP S/4HANA is running on SAP HANA for massive simplifications (simplified data model: no indexes, no aggregates, no redundancies) and innovations (for example, open in-memory platform for advanced applications predicting, recommending, and simulating)

SAP S/4HANA is natively designed with SAP Fiori UX, offering an integrated user experience with modern usability and instant insight on any device (role-based, three steps max to get the job done, mobile-first, consistent experience across lines of business)

SAP S/4HANA is natively connected to the Internet of Things and business networks for real-time collaboration (planned: machine-to-machine, Ariba Network, Concur) in the networked economy

SAP S/4HANA is natively engineered for providing choice of deployment (on premise, cloud and hybrid)

SAP S/4HANA is natively born for easy adoption (guided, configuration, and easy onboarding, from the discovery of the solution through cloud trials to deployment with preconfigured best practices)

Simple Finance Contd…

SAP HANA Enables a single source of Truth

Separation of transactions, Analysis and Accelerated reporting

One Data instance as common basis for transactions, Analysis and accelerated reporting

• Various copies of data in different data models

• Serial processing to ensure data quality

• Reconciliation process to validate the data between R/3 and BW

• A single data copy in shared data models

• From serial processes to even driven collaboration

• Aggregation of elementary records in real time

Architecture of SAP Accounting Powered by HANA

FI Document

CO Document

Table & IndicesManagement Account.

Table & IndicesFinancial Accounting Processing

Analytics

Pre-defined Aggregates

FI Document

CODocument

Processing

Analytics

Aggregation on the Fly

Via HANA Views

Logistic Document

Logistic Document

From…

….To

Customer Benefits Higher flexibility

in reporting Significantly

reduced memory consumption

Central journal for heterogeneous system landscape

Stability Flexibility

Stability Flexibility

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What is Universal Journal??

• Universal journal is a structure of single source of truth for both FI and CO modules business transaction postings

• Simply speaking universal journal is a one line item table of all the dimensions from FI, CO, AA and material ledger

• The new universal journal entry replaces the FI document and the controlling document with a universal document

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Reporting Architecture

Web Dynpro Fiori Apps Business

Objects BI

Embedded BW (Queries)

SAP HANA Live (Virtual Data Model – Logical Documents

Physical Documents

FI CO CO-PA Master Data

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Real Time Process Revolution

• Month end closing activities• Real time reporting for all the business users without any latency• Elimination of monitoring

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Choice of Deployment and Prerequisite to Deploy S/4 HANA aka sFIN

Choice of Deployment

• Cloud - where differentiation is not essential but a high standardization is required, it would be ideal for customers The Road to SAP S/4HANA 4 to adopt the industry best practices. The SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition is the ideal choice in this case because it provides best practices right from the start

• On-premise – Its an environment where customers require the maximum amount of flexibility, have all configuration possibilities and modify SAP business logic according to their needs

Technical Prerequisites and Software Products

• Technically the SAP Simple Finance, on-premise edition 1503 is based on: SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 SAP NetWeaver 7.40 SAP HANA database

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Adoption - Current Design Architecture

• A transactional BW option also doesn’t allow for central transaction execution, shared use of data between transaction processing, planning, consolidation and reporting or process optimization

ERP BWReporting

Business Transaction

Process Optimization

Shared data

Source System (s) Central BW System

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Central Journal – Future Design

• Central transaction execution, shared use of data between transaction processing, planning, consolidation and reporting or process optimization with central journal

ERP Reporting

Business Transaction

Process Optimization

Shared data

Plan

Con

solid

ate,

Rep

ortFinancial

Add-Ons

Suite on HANA

SAP HANAPlatform

Central Journal InstanceSource System (s)

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Benefits for Customer

Business Benefits:

• All the aggregates and Index tables are removed and are calculated on the fly• Data model made very simple• OLTP and OLAP in a single system• Rich user experience through Fiori• Instant Access to any financial insight on any device• Easy deployment option - Cloud, on-premise or hybrid deployment options

IT Value Perspective:

• Opportunities to simplify the landscape and help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)• Enterprises can now reduce their data footprint and work with larger data sets in one system

(for example, ERP, CRM, SRM, SCM, PLM co-deployed) to save hardware costs, operational costs, and time

• Faster analytics and reporting• New SAP Fiori UX for any device (mobile, desktop, tablet)

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Thank You…!!!

Questions…??