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SAP Cloud For Planning Overview
Pras Chatterjee,
Director of Product Marketing,
SAP AG
Introducing SAP Cloud for Planning
Pras Chatterjee, SAP EPM Product Marketing
March 2015
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FP&A may be
the most important skill set
for finance leaders
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FP&A empowers the business to
make better informed decisions
Ivo Bauermann, Vice President and General Manager EPM, SAP
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5%
More Productive
6%
More Profitable
Source: “How Does Data-Driven Decision making Affect Firm Performance?”. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). April 22, 2011
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How Technology Can Help
In Memory
Computing
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Analytics
Cloud
Mobile
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Organizations are increasingly leveraging Cloud, Mobile,
Information and Social capabilities
Nexus of Forces* Adoption Thus Far
Cloud
Don't
know
One offering / product,
23%
Don't leverage
any
76%
Four offerings/
Products
16%
Mobility
Information
use at least one of
the Nexus
technologies
Social
None of the above
Two offerings /
products, 24%
Three offerings /
products, 13%
Don't know
0
10
20
30
40
50
Percentage of respondents
*Gartner defines “ the nexus of forces” as the convergence and mutual reinforcement of four interdependent trends: social interaction, mobility, cloud, and information
Source: Gartner. John Van Decker. Survey Analysis: Critical CFO Technology Needs from the 2014 Gartner FEI Study. June 2014.
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And Finance is leading the way
Nexus of Forces* Demand by Department
Finance
74
Sales
69
Marketing
63
IT
39
Product development
33
Supply Chain
33
HR
32
Operations
7
Other
18
Don't know
3
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Percentage of respondents
70
80
*Gartner defines “ the nexus of forces” as the convergence and mutual reinforcement of four interdependent trends: social interaction, mobility, cloud, and information
Source: Gartner. John Van Decker. Survey Analysis: Critical CFO Technology Needs from the 2014 Gartner FEI Study. June 2014.
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Our Vision For EPM
Connect finance and lines-of-business
High-performance,
real-time platform
Consumer grade
user experience
SAPvEPM
Embedded ERP
and stand alone
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In the cloud
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Announcing SAP Cloud for Planning
Plan Simpler.
•
Future-oriented
•
People-centric
•
Analytics-embedded
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Future-oriented
•
Enjoy a new generation of
planning in the cloud with a
modern look and feel
•
Plan and simulate at any level of
detail, with any number of users,
at any time
•
Trust your application will perform
when and how you expect
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People-centric
•
Simply create and modify planning
models on the fly
•
Take action anytime, anywhere on the
desktop or on the go
•
Align plans across Finance and
business units with direct integration
into SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation
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Analytics-embedded
•
Analyze and plan in the same app
•
Personalize your KPIs and
dashboard
•
Collaborate in-context of your plan
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Integration with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
Hybrid Scenario
Corporate Finance
Strategic Business Units
On premise
Extend SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation deployment with
complementary, integrated
Departmental/Strategic Business
Unit (SBU) scenarios in the Cloud
SAP Cloud
for Planning
Public
Cloud
SAP Business
Planning and
Consolidation
Private Cloud
(HEC)
SAP Cloud
for Planning
Future Direction
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SAP HANA Cloud Security
Certified operations
World-class data centers
SAP HANA Cloud
Advanced network security
Reliable data backup
Built-in compliance, integrity,
and confidentiality
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Additional Resources
Website
Blogs
http://www.sap.com/cloudforplanning
http://blogs.sap.com/analytics/?s=%22clo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnnD
ud+for+planning%22
PQZ_7Fo
Product Intro Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYCd
Gr1FMmo&feature=youtu.be
SAP Conf. for EPM Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gsz
CyrrWI4&feature=youtu.be
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YouTube Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL
ufF7pZxICBjJ3HM5A0_lv-z0RQ0f96Gr
Product Demo
Next Generation FP&A Report
from the Aberdeen Group
https://dam.sap.com/mac/download/asse
t/master.htm?code=a063217a27c6d0fdfe
20bf1034d4318b46d17b2c
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Thank you
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