SAP Simple Finance

the new financial solution from SAP

Joachim Mette
April 2015
 What does it mean to simplify?

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 SAP Simple Finance
The worlds leading Finance solutions reinvented

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 Simple Data
Model
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

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 Simple Data
Model
Global financial solution on a modern in-memory
platform
Harmonized internal and external reporting
(Universal Journal)
Account driven data model
Significantly reduced reconciliation effort

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 Simple
Applications &
Processes
Elimination of multiple reconciliation tasks due to the
Instant Insight 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

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 Simple
Applications &
Processes
Significant speed-up of asset depreciation run
Instant Insight
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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 Simple
Deployment
Simpler IT with choice of deployment on-premise,
cloud, or hybrid
Flexibly choose your own non-disruptive
evolutionary path towards real time

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 SAP Business SAP Simple
SAP Business
Warehouse Finance
SAP HANA Suite powered
powered powered
by SAP HANA
by SAP HANA by SAP HANA

In-memory Real-time analysis Real-time business Instant financial insight

platform Real-time reporting OLAP and OLTP together No aggregates
Simplified data model
SAP HANA Enterprise Single source of truth
Cloud for SAP Business New user experience
Suite on SAP HANA 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:
5 Experience simplefinance.sapjourneymap.com

For customers already using SAP Finance,

4 Deploy Simple Finance is delivered as an add-on to
ECC 6.0 Enhancement Pack 7

SAP HANA migration and Simple Finance

3 Try installation can be done together

Minimal disruption: logic stays the same

2 Identify while the physical architecture is different
Existing reports, processes, and
customizations run via views
Interfaces for other apps remain the same
1 Explore Migrate any time within reporting period

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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
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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. Im fully confident this
is the way forward to run finance at DSB.
Ken Kastrup Nielsen,
IT Finance Specialist
DSB (Danish State Railways)
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
CFOs 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
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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)
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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 SAPs 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)
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
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 11. S/4 HANA is a new suite built to take full advantage of SAP HANA

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

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

44. The value in reducing redundancy is really flexibility

55. 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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 Thank you

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