SAP Simple Finance

the new financial solution from SAPJoachim Mette

April 2015

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What does it mean to simplify?

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Analogy: sending a photograph to someone far away

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SAP Simple FinanceThe world’s leading Finance solutions reinvented

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Abolishment of pre-defined aggregates

Less Locking

Significantly reduced memory consumption

Non-disruptive

Higher flexibility in reporting

Drill-down to line item level

All relevant dimensions

Customer-specific dimensions

Simple Data

Model

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Global financial solution on a modern in-memory

platform

Harmonized internal and external reporting

(Universal Journal)

Account driven data model

Significantly reduced reconciliation effort

Simple Data

Model

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Elimination of multiple reconciliation tasks due to the

universal journal

Secondary cost elements are now G/L accounts

Intercompany Reconciliation on the Fly

Real-time profitability by earlier derivation of market

segment

Correct asset acquisition values at any time - now also

for valuation areas with “special items”

Simple

Applications &

Processes

Instant Insight

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Simple

Applications &

Processes

Instant Insight

Significant speed-up of asset depreciation run

Appendix Ledger concept, e.g. management views on

top of legal data

Financial Planning and Analysis

Treasury and Financial Risk Management: Liquidity

Planning, Bank Account Management, Exposure Hub

OLTP and OLAP together

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Intuitive User

Experience

Personalized user experience with instant access

to any financial insight on any device

Role-based to get the job done the way finance

users work

Instant access anywhere with drill-down to lowest

detail

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Simpler IT with choice of deployment on-premise,

cloud, or hybrid

Flexibly choose your own non-disruptive

evolutionary path towards real time

Simple

Deployment

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SAP HANA

SAP Business

Warehouse

powered

by SAP HANA

SAP Business

Suite powered

by SAP HANA

SAP Simple

Finance

powered

by SAP HANA

Real-time analysis

Real-time reporting

Real-time business

OLAP and OLTP together

SAP HANA Enterprise

Cloud for SAP Business

Suite on SAP HANA

In-memory

platform

Instant financial insight

No aggregates

Single source of truth Simplified data model

New user experience

Advanced processing

Choice of deployment

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Demo

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Your Journey to Simple Finance

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Journey Map for SAP Simple Finance: simplefinance.sapjourneymap.com

For customers already using SAP Finance,

Simple Finance is delivered as an add-on to

ECC 6.0 Enhancement Pack 7

SAP HANA migration and Simple Finance

installation can be done together

Minimal disruption: logic stays the same

while the physical architecture is different

Existing reports, processes, and

customizations run via views

Interfaces for other apps remain the same

Migrate any time within reporting period

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4 Deploy

3 Try

2 Identify

1 Explore

Experience

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“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

“Sanofi 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

Sanofi.”

Jan Waals,

Principal and Global SAP Practice Leader

Sanofi 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)

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“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 (Australia)

“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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1. S/4 HANA is a new suite built to take full advantage of SAP HANA

2. SAP Simple Finance is the first Exchange Innovation in SAP S/4HANA

3. Simplified data model + simplified UX = value for IT and Finance both

4. The value in “reducing redundancy” is really flexibility

5. S/4HANA Foundation License promotion through October 2015

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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

Charles succeeds with SAP Simple Finance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXk_03PiBw0

SAP CFO and Finance Leadership Center

http://www.sap.com/ms/2014-06-cfo-finance-leadership-center.html

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