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SAP User Group
Hot Topics in the World of Finance Ian Hunter / James Willis SAP (UK) Ltd
22nd November, 2011
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Hot Topics in the World of Finance
1. SAP Disclosure Management
2. Embedded Analytics in SAP Finance
3. SAP Mobility..... What does this mean to Finance?
4. Q&A
SAP User Group
Disclosure Management
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SAP’s Acquisition of Cundus, AG Assets
In December 2010, SAP announced and closed its
acquisition of disclosure management solutions from
Cundus AG
Cundus AG
Headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, with
subsidiaries in Switzerland and the UK
A certified SAP partner which provides BI and EPM
consulting services and related software solutions
SAP has acquired:
Cundus Financial Statement Factory – now SAP
BusinessObjects Disclosure Management
Cundus InformationCollector – now SAP
BusinessObjects Notes Management
Solutions are 100% complementary to SAP’s existing
EPM and ERP solutions, and are already in use by a
number of SAP’s customers
Sample Joint Customers
SAP and cundus
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Entity Close
Corporate Close
Financial Accounting
Reporting and Disclosure
Financial
Close
Governance
Internal Controls
Master Data Governance for Financials
General Ledger
Sub-Ledgers
Entity Close
Management (e.g.
FCC)
Reporting
and Analysis
Intercompany
Reconciliation Consolidation
Notes
Management
Disclosure
Management
SAP Accounting and Financial Close End-to-End Process
As part of the enterprise
performance
management (EPM)
solutions, the new
collaborative disclosure
management solutions
complete the end-to-end
accounting and financial
close process
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Fundamentals - Today's Report Management Reality
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SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management Reduce the time, risk and cost of regulatory disclosures
Speed and flexibility
Accelerate the generation of disclosure statements
Optimize the close from source to digital disclosure
Collaboration
Assign ownership responsibility to finance teams
Automate integration and data flow
Compliance and control
In-house production of trusted financial statements
Support multiple financial and regulatory statements
Enable creation of iXBRL & XBRL-based statements
Process and Workflow
Organisation and structuring
Workflow & Approvals – multi user usage, Refreshing of data
Output of the comprehensive report
(E.g. doc, ppt, xls, PDF, HTML, XBRL/iXBRL, InDesign, LSE
RNS, Annual Report, earnings release, press release…..)
Monitoring and Audit trail
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Disclosure Management Architecture
SAP BusinessObjects
Disclosure Management
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Workflow
Holding
SGE 1 SGE 2 SGE 3
ZH 1 ZH 2
EG 1
EG 2
EG 5 EG 3
SGE 4
EG 6 EG 4
External files
(e.g. Spreadsheets)
Input Output
Data
Repository
Output
Processor
Document
Mgmt
Word
Processor
Entity Close Data
(e.g. General Ledger)
Corporate
Close Data
(e.g.
Consolidations,
Notes)
SAP Consolidations
BFC/BPC/BCS/BW
SAP Notes
Management
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SAP BW Integration
• Once inside the data cache you select “Datasources.”
• Upon selection of the Datasources Icon you will be provided a list of
options for Datasource formats
• Next select the SAP BW Server
Datasource.
• Users can either create a Disclosure
Management Briefing Book which
can be loaded with the existing BW
Queries, or select individual queries.
• From here users select the “Data
Link” icon. This will then bring up
the queries created on the BW
Server.
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SAP BusinessObjects Notes Management as Input into
SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management
(Simple Flow)
This presentation and SAP‘s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is
provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement
Consolidation
System (i.e. BPC, BFC etc.)
SAP
BusinessObjects
Notes
Management
Consolidated
Financial
Statement
Figures
Financial
Statement/
Group
Notes
SAP
BusinessObjects
Disclosure
Management
Workflow
Data
Repository
Document
Mgmt
Output
Processor
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SAP Disclosure Management
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Benefits of Improved Disclosure Management
Key Features Business Value
Speed and Flexibility
• Accelerate the generation of disclosure statements
• Integrate data for a single view across the organization
• Optimize the close from source to digital disclosure
Reduces Time
• Accelerates the collection and
management of information
across the entire enterprise to
support regulatory disclosures
Collaboration
• Assign disclosure responsibility to distributed teams
• Automate integration and data flow
• Designed for ownership by finance professionals
Reduces Cost
• Streamlines and automates the
collection, validation, and
approvals with an easy-to-use,
visual interface
Compliance and Control
• In-house production of trusted financial statements
• Support multiple financial and regulatory statements
• Enable creation of XBRL-based statements
Reduces Risk
• Enables the production and
publication of reliable, complete,
and auditable financial and
regulatory statements
Thank You
SAP User Group
Embedded Analytics
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Business Benefits enabled by ECC6
• Ease of use
• Business Process Automation
• Information-centric
• Adaptable
• Easier introduction to new
functionality
• Analysis, decisions and actions
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ERP Financial Analytics Preconfigured Crystal Reports and Xcelsius Dashboards
Benefits
Unifies look and feel of financial reports and an attractive user interface.
Reduces learning costs.
Offers scalability in back-end technology.
Allows switching between direct access for lean back-end scenarios and replicated data for high-volume environments.
New Features Description Target Users
Crystal Reports for FI-GL Balance Sheet
Income Statement
Cash Flow Statement
Financial Statement Actual / Actual Comparison
Account Balances
Account Line Items
Document Journal
G/L Accountant
Corporate controllers
Other users in corporate
finance
Crystal Reports for FI-AR Customer DSO Analysis
Customer Due Date Analysis
A/R Accountant
Crystal Reports for FI-AP Vendor Due Date Analysis A/P Accountant
Crystal Reports for FI-AA Asset History Sheet
Planned Depreciation
Asset accountants
Crystal Reports for CO Cost Centers: Actual/Plan/Variance – Cost Elements
Orders: Actual/Plan/Variance – Cost Elements
Orders: Cumulative Actual/Plan/Variance – Cost Elements
Profitability Analysis: Operating Profit
Corporate controllers
Business unit analyst
Other users in corporate
finance
Xcelsius dashboards for
FSCM
Dispute Management – 12 dashboards
Credit Management – 1 dashboard
Collection Management – 5 dashboards
Dispute Manager
Credit Manager
Collection Manager
Xcelsius dashboard for Cash
Management
Cash Management – 1 dashboards with 4 tabs Cash Manager
Business Function: FIN_REP_SIMPL_3
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Technical Integration Scenarios Delivered with Innovations 2010
Display lists with
SAP Crystal Reports
Deploy as
SAP NetWeaver BW content
Mash-up
user interfaces
Descri
pti
on
Reports off transactions
Layout option for SAP
List Viewer (ALV)
Reports and dashboards deployed
as SAP NetWeaver BW content
Support standard or custom
business content, or transient
providers
Integrate with roles and launchpad
Mash-up SAP
Business Suite
screens and
dashboards
2-way read/write
Deploy with current application lifecycle management
Customize and extend reports and dashboards
Cu
sto
mer
Valu
e
Best-of-breed reporting
Real-time
Leverage investments
in ALV
Best-of-breed reporting and
dashboarding
Leverage investments in SAP
Netweaver BW
Real-time
Truly seamless
user experience
Write-back
Real-time
2 1 3
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Display lists with SAP Crystal Reports End-to-End Workflow
Start ALV
Display with Generic
Crystal Report
Edit generated layout in
Crystal Report Designer
(additional license
may be required)
Save new Specific Crystal
Report as ALV layout option
1
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Deploy as SAP NetWeaver BW Content Key Concepts
Central ideas
Develop and deliver SAP NetWeaver
BW content using Crystal Reports and
Xcelsius following Simplified Reporting
approach
Data retrieval via BEx Queries
Key rational SAP BusinessObjects content fully integrated
into BI content development & deployment
Leverage existing SAP BI Content
investment protection
Portal roles of Business Suite use
Launchpads as access point for the most
important reports nonregarding the
technology behind Apply concept to SAP
BusinessObjects content as well
2
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What is New with Embedded Analytics in Ehp5
SAP Business Suite before SAP Business Suite after
Modern user experience
Compelling analytics for all users
Best-of-breed BI solutions
Change
Management
Problem
Management
Legacy reporting technology
Analytics for sophisticated users
Limited report formatting capabilities
SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions integrated
within the SAP Business Suite
Thank You
SAP User Group SAP Customer Financial Fact Sheet
Mobile App
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Mobility
It is having an impact ?
that there are now more mobile phones (4billion) than toothbrushes (2billion)?
Did you know?
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Definition: fully portable, real-time
access to the same information and tools
that, until recently, were accessible to
customers or your mobile workers only
from their desktop or laptop
Enterprise Mobility – What is it?
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SAP Customer Financial Fact Sheet
Target user: Sales representative
Goal: Check the financial situation of his
customers within 60 seconds
Features:
• Real-time data
• List of all customers
• Filter for critical customers
• Detailed view on single customer includes
• Receivables outstanding & overdue
• Dunning information
• Payment behavior
• Credit information
• Drill down to single invoice & mail invoice copy
Platform: iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4
iPad
Minimum Required Operation System: iOS 4.3.3
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DEMO
! AppDemoStore (password: demo)
YouTube
Thank You
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Questions & Answers? Contact Information
James Willis
Senior Presales Specialist
SAP (UK) Ltd.
Clockhouse Place, Bedfont Road
Feltham, Middlesex, TW14 8HD
M +44 (0)7966 975 004
Ian Hunter
Senior Presales Specialist
SAP (UK) Ltd.
Clockhouse Place, Bedfont Road
Feltham, Middlesex, TW14 8HD
M +44 (0)7966 975 877
