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Lars Fleminggard, SAP

November 2018

SAP Analytics Cloud – Financial Planning & Analysis How SAP supports the CFO and Controlling community

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SAP’s view on Finance Transformation

How SAP supports the CFO and Controller community today and tomorrow with Intelligent

Financial processes regarding

▪ Analyze-to-Optimize

– Plan & Forecast

– Cost Control

– Profitability Analysis

– Simulate & Optimize

▪ Record-to-Report

– Entity Close

– Group Close

Agenda – How SAP supports the CFO and Controlling community


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SAP’s view on Finance Transformation


Vision of Finance TransformationFrom daily routine to supporting growth and new business models

Today Future

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Employee roles will change

▪ Big-data analysts

▪ Market observes & analysts

▪ New business modelers

▪ Simulation & Prediction experts

▪ Business strategy experts

▪ Line of business experts/partners

Automation

Analytics


Vision of Finance TransformationFrom daily routine to supporting growth and new business models

Insights

Operations

Insights

Operations

Forward looking

Backward looking

Forward looking

Backward looking

Advanced

Analytics **Automation *

* KPI driven operations, Machine Learning enabled automation, the power of Networks,...

** Smart alerting, Predictive Analytics, Prescriptive Analytics,…

Delivering insightsRunning the business Support strategy

Record Analyse and Understand Re-act (Pro-)act


How to get to pro-active business steering

Record

Analyse and

Understand

Re-act

(Pro-)act

B/S P&L Cash Risk

Entity

Division

Group

Drivers (internal)

Business dimensions for financial measures incorporated in the financial

steering model (Universal Journal)

To allow for driver-based steering, an E2E steering model is required.

Sharing business dimensions but including non-financial measures as well

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Drivers (external)

S/4HANA

SAC

(Analytics)

Financial Planning & Analysis


Planning application embedded within

S/4HANA Cloud and other Cloud apps N/A

Standalone on premise application

Planning application embedded within

S/4HANA (on premise) BPC Optimized

Planning: What has changed

Before

BPC (all versions)

Standalone planning application in the

Cloud (SaaS) Analytics Cloud


Customers requiring an on premise

solution

Planning: What has changed

Now

BPC – Business Planning & Consolidation*

Standalone planning and with SAP

S/4HANA and other Cloud appsSAC – SAP Analytics Cloud

*BPC optimized can still be used for real-time planning on SAP S/4HANA on premise and BPC for

BW/4HANA is recommended for standalone on premise deployments


Basic Equation

Planning Tool (SAC / BPC)

+ S/4 Integration (SAC Connector / HANA Views)

+ Financial Planning Content

+ Flexibility

= S/4HANA Financial Planning


SAP Analytics Cloud for PlanningPlanning (is) for everyone

Act in the Moment Continuously Collaborate Become an Intelligent Enterprise

▪ Analyze, plan, predict, and report all in one

place to save time and better support the

business

▪ Plan and analyze directly within your

enterprise application for instant insight to

action

▪ Visualize KPI metrics and adjust drivers on

screen to simulate the impact of decisions

▪ Discuss plans in context for increased

accountability

▪ Create and share private versions to

model and socialize what-if scenarios prior

to publishing

▪ Crowdsource plans and budgets across

the business to improve alignment and

accuracy

▪ Discover top influencers of performance

without having to look and automatically

predict future values to improve results

▪ Augment manual insights with embedded

intelligence, including smart insights for

variances, for better data-driven decisions

▪ Answer the tough questions with natural

language questions


Let SAP Analytics Cloud for planning help you…

Plan Simple:

▪ Powerful data entry capabilities

▪ Native collaboration and cell commentary

▪ Private versioning

▪ What-if simulations

▪ Predictive Forecasting

▪ Single-click variance analysis

▪ Workflow and task assignment

▪ Smart Analysis

▪ Excel integration

And much more…..

Demonstration

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15CUSTOMER

Product Descr ipt ion

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Contextual user experiences Guided or free structure Data-driven insights

▪ Give executives a complete, real-time view of

company situations and KPIs across departments –

and foster trust among leaders

▪ Align executive decisions on one source of truth

across business areas

▪ Embedded and personalized to each individual

▪ Follow a traditional presentation structure

with the ability to break-off, skip, or go back

▪ Create a freeform presentation in a new

exploratory style to meet your organizational

structure

▪ Explore and combine KPIs, and use filters to

compare trends and spot correlations

▪ Simulate impact of potential decisions to financials

and operations

▪ Get a 360-degree view and visualize insights in

context across multiple touchscreen displays to

maximize impact

SAP Digital Boardroom

SAP Digital Boardroom - Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9hMHIGw0zI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9hMHIGw0zI

What do you think?

Contact information:

Lars Fleminggard

Senior Solution Advisor

Finance

SAP SE

+46 70 356 62 17

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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