SAP Simple Finance

SAP Simple Finance
Meet SAP Simple Finance
Henner Schliebs, Head of Finance Audience Marketing
February 6, 2015 @hschliebs

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TECHNOLOGY
TRENDS
The CFO’s New Reality for Achieving Financial Excellence
Keeping Up with the Accelerating Pace of Business
Increasing complexity of
external conditions
Pressure to support global
growth initiatives
Requirement to reduce the
cost of finance
Accelerated adoption of
technology innovations
Millennial work style enabled
by networks and mobility
Explosion of Big Data
BUSINESS
TRENDS

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87%
of finance executives say
that the finance function
will need to improve its
capabilities and
performance to support
profitable growth
(The Next Stage in the Creating Value-Added
Finance Function, CFO.com, 2014)
CFOs have spoken:
Finance executives see the need to transform their own finance organizations
58%
say that their company’s
line-of-business managers
have difficulty using finance
information systems to
identify and understand
the data they need to make
effective decisions

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SAP’s Response: Helping Finance Run Simple
We attacked complexity in finance by
re-building our global, comprehensive
solution to take advantage of SAP HANA.
With the resulting simplicity, IT enables
finance to operate more strategically.
SAP CEO Bill McDermott announces SAP Simple Finance
at the 2014 SapphireNOW conference

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Scope:
the entire portfolio for finance
Innovation:
driving finance with instant insight
Deployment:
full choice of options
What is SAP Simple Finance?

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Innovations of SAP Simple Finance help drive
Finance with instant insight
Drive one common understanding of finance data
to ensure enterprise-wide consistency to minimize
reconciliation and errors
Use prediction, simulation and analysis
to evaluate financial implications of strategic
business options
Enable real-time finance processes for instant
insight timely to make timely and relevant decisions

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Drive one common understanding of finance data to ensure
enterprise-wide consistency
87%
of finance executives say
they need to analyze
financial and performance
data much more
quickly to meet targets
for profitable growth
(The Next Stage in the Creating Value-Added Finance
Function, CFO.com, 2014)
Consolidation of financial,
managerial and operational data
Single financial data source for
transactions, analytics and planning
Reduction of duplication and
the need for reconciliations

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Personalized, instant insight across finance and controlling
• Leverage the same information
for external disclosures and for
management reporting
• One logical view across finance
(FI) and controlling (CO)
• Aggregation on the fly across all
balances and dimensions based
on transactional data
• Personalized reports across
finance, controlling, and operations

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Enable real-time finance processes for instant insight
timely to make timely and relevant decisions
83%
of finance executives agree
that better information
reporting and data
visualization capabilities
would help line-of-business
managers make better
decisions
(The Next Stage in the Creating Value-Added Finance
Function, CFO.com, 2014)
Real-time processes to
allow finance to transform their
organizations
Personalized self-service access
to KPIs with granular drill-down
Business and social networks
for collaboration with teams,
customers and partners

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Real-time processes enable Finance transformation
Financial Planning
and Analysis
Accounting and
Financial Close
Collaborative Finance
Operations
Enterprise Risk and
Compliance Management
Treasury and Financial
Risk management
 Provide advice on
M&A and divestitures
with unlimited
simulations
and what-if analysis
 Improve managerial
group reporting and
processing across
matrix organization
 Enable a “soft close”
by solving issues
throughout the
month
 Leverage integrated
managerial and
financial accounting
to reduce
reconciliation
 Instant visibility into
working capital to
support real-time
liquidity planning
 Make investment
decisions to fund
corporate growth to
manage financial risk
 Real-Real-time
receivables and
payables reconciliation
for better collaboration
with customers and
partners
 Immediate reaction to
collection
 Identify and predict
potential fraud and
define strategies for
fraud prevention
 Ensure compliance
and improve audit
management
efficiency

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Example:
Real-time processes enable a “soft close” anytime
Processes designed for real-time
operations eliminate close bottlenecks
Local close processes involve >100
tasks with multiple batch bottlenecks
Traditional Close Close enabled by SAP HANAClose
Batches
Consolidation
Batches
Initial Period Close & Consolidation
Reporting on-demand
Close & ConsolidationInitial Period

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Role-based, personalized dashboards
with granular drill-down
Role-based dashboards
• General Ledger Accountant
• Accounts Payable Manager
• Accounts Receivable Manager
• Collection Specialist
• Credit Manager
• Cost Center Manager
• Cash Manager
Additional roles are planned

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Identify strategic business options through prediction,
simulation and analysis
91%
of finance executive say that,
to meet targets for profitable
growth, the finance function
will need to become better at
providing managers with
forward-looking, predictive
analytics
Instant financial analytics
across multiple dimensions
of finance and operations
Modeling and prediction
to evaluate business options
Planning and simulation
across finance and operations

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Integrated Financial Planning across an organization
Production
Planning
Strategic
Planning
Sales
Planning
Price
Planning
Investment
Planning
Procurement
Planning
Headcount
Planning
Marketing
Planning
Cost
Planning
Revenue
Planning
Balance Sheet
and
Profit & Loss
Planning
Profitability
Planning

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Prediction and simulation enable better business decisions
• Drill-down on drivers of profitability including
customer, product, geography and channel
• Full access to financial master and
transactional data in SAP ERP for planning
and what-if analysis
• Identification of trends using prediction
• Simulation and prediction to determine the
financial impact of business options

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Benefits: Drive financial transformation with instant insight
• Reduce reconciliations and errors with
built-in consistency with one common
view of financial and operational data
• Enable timely and relevant decisions through
real-time processes with personalized instant
insight
• Provide strategic value to the business
with prediction, simulation and analysis
to evaluate business options

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Early adopter success by the numbers
>65%
Faster financial
close processes*
>50%
Faster foreign
currency revaluation*
1,000X
Faster reporting
(from 15 minutes to 1 second)*
>400 hours
Cut from close processes
86% faster
Real-time analytics
91% faster
Automatic maintenance revenue accruals

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SAP Simple Finance early adopter success
“Deloitte has been collaborating with SAP on
the next generation Finance solutions and we
have significant experience with SAP HANA,
as we use it within our own financial systems.
The role of the CFO and the CFO’s team
continues to evolve, and this new wave of
innovation will allow finance professionals to
access information in new ways enabled by the
speed and power of SAP HANA. This will help
to drive ongoing finance transformation as
we see it at Deloitte.”
Jan Waals, principal and global SAP practice
leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
“Our first experience with SAP Simple
Finance powered by SAP HANA has proven to
be the right solution to drive our key financial
processes and reporting in real-time. Our
finance users were really impressed by the
ability to perform reporting and analytics on
item levels. Reconciliations of costs and
financial accounting can now be done at any
time. I’m fully confident this is the way forward
to run finance at DSB.”
Ken Kastrup Nielsen, IT Finance Specialist,
DSB (Danish State Railways)
“Zurich wanted to be one of the first customers
to evaluate the financials innovation delivered
with SAP HANA. Deployed as a simple add-on
for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA,
we are really impressed by the results in terms
of the performance, simplification, and agility
it could bring to our finance community”.
Wilco Boosman, Director SAP Convergence,
Zurich Insurance Group

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SAP Simple Finance early adopter success (2 of 2)
“The financials add-on for SAP Business
Suite powered by SAP HANA was deployed
in less than two months without any disruption
to our business. We now have one common
platform for both regulatory and managerial
accounting as well as on-the-fly financial
processes. This innovation will help us deliver
stronger financial leadership through better
advice on strategic and operational plans
that impact the business performance and
effectiveness of SAP.”
Luka Mucic, Chief Financial Officer, SAP SE
“Our students live in a technological era,
and we must provide a consistent environment
so that their learning life and their social life
can seamlessly blend. Our teaching staff and
researchers must also have administrative
overhead lifted from them so they can
concentrate on their core activities. As an
example, with SAP Simple Finance, our
finance organization will be able to focus on
the most essential tasks and get the job
done in real-time.”
John Dewar, President & Vice Chancellor,
La Trobe University (AUS)
“As a leader in high security technology,
innovation is critical for us, which includes
implementing our internal processes, such as
finance, on the latest technology platform. SAP,
with its SAP HANA technology, is definitely
ahead of the competition with its database
technology and speed. We have run SAP ERP
since 2002, and will now change our platform to
SAP HANA, to enable us to take advantage of
SAP’s continuing innovations such as SAP
Simple Finance, to meet our goal of being a
technology leader both in our own business,
as well as in our internal support processes.”
Christian Helfrich, CFO,
Bundesdruckerei (Germany)

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Why SAP?
• 40+ years of finance experience across 50+
countries and 25+ industries
• Market-leading software with 57,000+ SAP
ERP Financials customers and 10,000+ SAP
EPM customers
• Innovations that help transform finance
organizations with instant insight

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Your Journey to Simple Finance without disruption
Journey Map for SAP Simple Finance:
simplefinance.sapjourneymap.com
Take 5 steps to identify the scope of
SAP Simple Finance, determine your scope,
and manage your deployment
Investigate the non-disruptive ways
to move towards SAP HANA in any
deployment mode
5
4 Deploy
3 Try
2 Identify
1 Explore
Experience

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For more information
SAP Simple Finance
www.sap.com/simple-finance
Journey Maps
• SAP Simple Finance
simplefinance.sapjourneymap.com
• SAP Business Suite on HANA
soh.sapjourneymap.com
• SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
hec.sapjourneymap.com
Line of Business for Finance
www.sap.com/financialsexcellence

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Henner Schliebs
Head of Finance Audience Marketing
@hschliebs
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henner.schliebs@sap.com
hschliebs

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Finance executives are still hampered by complexity
Uncertain Economy
• Margin pressure
• Working capital
• Financial risk
Globalization
• Increasing regulation
• Process standardization
• Diverse cultures
New Business Models
• Business partnerships
• Collaboration with customers
and vendors
Explosion of Data
• Structured & unstructured
• Viral content
• Analysis paralysis
Millennial Work Style
• Collaboration
• Mobility
• Continuously connected

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Controller
FINANCIAL PLANNING AND
ANALYSIS
Head of Corporate
Reporting
ACCOUNTING AND
FINANCIAL CLOSE
Head of Finance
Operations
COLLABORATIVE FINANCE
OPERATIONS
Chief Compliance Officer
ENTERPRISE RISK AND
COMPLIANCE
MANAGEMENT
SAP Simple Finance enables all finance processes
Corporate
Treasurer
TREASURY AND FINANCIAL
RISK MANAGEMENT
Chief Financial Officer

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Finance Value Map – Achieve Financial Excellence
Accounting and
Financial Close
Financial Planning and
Analysis
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
Real Estate Management
Financial Risk
Management
International Trade
Management
Fraud Management
Audit Management
Financial Shared Services

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Financial Planning and Analysis
Accounting and Financial Close
Risk Management
Collaborative Finance
Operations Enterprise Risk and
Compliance Management
Transforming Finance with predictive and real-time
processes
Unlimited simulation of business options with what-if
and predictive analysis
Advise the business on M&A, product introductions
Instant visibility into working capital, enterprise-wide
liquidity and financial risks
Make investment decisions to fund corporate growth
Real-time receivables and payables reconciliation for
better collaboration with customers and partners
React immediately to invoice disputes
Controls and pattern-based prediction of increased
potential risks and fraud events
Identify and define strategies to prevent fraud
Continuous intra-period soft close with pre-close simulations
Solve issues through-out the month, not only month-end

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Full choice of deployment
Cloud
Subscription licensing with deployment
in private cloud and maintained by SAP
Hybrid
Combine on-premise and cloud capabilities
to meet specific, modular needs
On Premise
Traditional licensing with customer
control of deployment and maintenance

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SAP’s proven market leadership across portfolios
supports finance goals
Enterprise Resource Planning
Top 10 ERP Software Vendors
by Total Software Revenue, Worldwide,
2011-2012 (Millions of U.S. Dollars)
2012 MarketShare %1
Administrative ERP: Financial
Management Systems
Financial Management System (Millions
of U.S. Dollars) 2012 MarketShare %1
Business Intelligence, Analytics
and Performance Management
BI, CPM and Analytic Applications/Performance
Management Market Revenue, Share and Growth
by Vendor, 2010-2012 (Millions of Dollars) 2012
MarketShare %2
1 Gartner Research, "Market Snapshot: ERP Software, Worldwide, 2012", Chris Pang, 29 April 2013
2 Gartner Research, “Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management, 2012” Dan Sommer, Bhavish Sood, 7 May 2013
3 Gartner Research, “Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites” by John E. Van Decker, Neil Chandler, Christopher Iervolino , February 14, 2013
4 Gartner Research, “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms", French Caldwell and John A. Wheeler Oct. 4, 2012
5 Gartner Research, “Vendor Rating: SAP” Donald Feinberg et al, 13 August 2013
SAP is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner Inc.’s Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites3 and
for Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms4
SAP is rated as “Strong Positive” for Operational ERP Products and as “Positive” for Administrative ERP Products.5
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SAP has 40+ years of financial expertise
SAP Simple Finance takes SAP’s 40+ years to the next level
The Finance Ecosystem
• 57,000+ SAP ERP Financials customers
• 10,000+ SAP EPM customers
• 60,000+ SAP Analytics customers
• GRC
• 7,000+ partners with proven track records
• Multiple communities, partners and user groups
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Innovating the Portfolio with SAP Simple Finance
If you simplify everything you can do anything
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Managing
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Buying & selling
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