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@timoelliottDiscover SimpleTimo Elliott, SAP VP, Global Innovation Evangelist

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SOCIALANALYTICS

MOBILEAPPLICATIONS

CLOUDNETWORKS

SIMPLE


Complex Business Processes Complex TechnologyComplex Decision Making

Deep management No consensus on data Data lags reality Yet another meeting

Historic complexity User experience Batch processing No real-time corrections

Legacy systems IT Consumerization Budgets to business Big Data

The Curse of Business Complexity

10.2% or US$237 billion of profits is lost by top 200 global companies due to hidden costs of complexity. Global Simplicity Index, 2013


Business Complexity Hinders Performance

Business complexity has hurt efforts to meet process- and decision-making goals

Technology complexity adds barriers to achieving goals

74%

60%

Survey by SAP and Knowledge@Wharton 2014


What Does This Mean For You?

40% of executives worry that their organizations will not keep pace with technology change and lose their competitive edge.

McKinsey study, 2013

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The Benefits of Simplicity

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37% KEY TAKEAWAY:

62% of respondents say simplification improvesproductivity and business performance.

Survey by SAP and Knowledge@Wharton 2014

TechnologyDecisions Processes

SAP’s Next Big Thing

R/2

1979

R/3

1992

ERP

2004 2015


SAP HANA, the great simplifier of enterprise software

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

2011 20132012 2014 2015


SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (S/4 HANA)

• All enterprises

• All industries

• All roles

• All data

• All regions

• All deployments

• All extensions

Simple User ExperienceRole-based

All devices

Simple Business SolutionsDigitally connected

Real time

Simple Data ModelWithout aggregates

Without redundancy

Boardroom of the Future

Source:In-Memory Data Management: An Inflection Point for Enterprise Applications. Hasso Plattner Alexander Zeier

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“Intricate calculations of sales by territories will appear as if by magic in the digital age ahead”


Forecasting and simulations Prediction and simulation to evaluate financial

impacts of strategic business options Integrated liquidity forecasting using

multidimensional real-time analytics

Near real-time period closing Better process oversight through new

management dashboard Flexible on-the-fly aggregation, no time delays of

data loss due to replication

Real-time revenue and cost analysis Interactive drill down to explore root causes for

deviations Optimization strategies to improve company’s

overall financial health

SAP Simple Finance


SAP Simple Finance


Top Three Barriers to Better Finance

Insufficient knowledge of business strategy and dynamics among finance staff

Insufficient access to operational metrics that drive and impact financial measures

Staff buried in basic duties; no time to improve FP&A

27%

31%

62%

Source: Grant Thornton, APQC FP&A report Influencing Corporate Performance with Stellar Processes, People, and Technology Feb 2015

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Driving transformation of

Finance

70% less reconciliation time

ICO reconciliation

30%less processing time

Financial Close

10% fewer fraud cases

Risk & compliance – real time screening on anomalies

40%less posting corrections

Financial Close

10%DSO reduction

Receivables management

1,8 TB SAP’s ERP Database

Database footprint reduced from once 7.1 TB

80% less cost center re-org time

Organizational change

22% further

reduction in processing timeFinancial Close (automation)

500 GB SAP’S ERP Database

Database footprint radically reduced further

Margin optimization

Better decision support, prediction & simulations

Soft close

Intra-month. Information when & where needed

3% cash optimization

Treasury

Taking Finance to the next level – HANA & Simple Finance @ SAP


Is this your finance team?

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Taking Analytics to the next level – HANA & Simple Finance @ SAP


Enable the business to make better decisions in real time,

anytime, anywhere

Enable Finance executives to manage their operations more

effectively

.

Accelerate key process cycle times and eliminate approval

bottlenecks

Q2C Dashboard CFO Central app

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Receivable Manager with Financial Fact Sheet

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Shopping Card approval Approve allCFO DashboardAnalytics Store

Mobile Finance – Reality Today

http://www.sap.com/solutions/rapid-deployment/index.epx


Hyper-personalizeCustomer Experience

Plan & optimizeResources in Real-time

Engage & empowerWorkforce of the Future

Harness the intelligence ofNetworked Economy

Key Areas of Opportunity


CUSTOMERENGAGEMENT


Reinvent Luxury Service

25© 2014 SAP AG or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Burberry

The benefits of the SAP HANA platform are significant with a hugely simplified footprint.

We’re putting the whole business on the SAP HANA Enterprise cloud

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Centerpoint Energy


Engage Your Fans

RichardPetruška


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EMPLOYEEEMPOWERMENT


Empowering Individual Performance


Empowering Employees SAP Lumira


The Right Skills In The Right Place at the Right Time

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RESOURCEOPTIMIZATION

Unilever

“if we knew then what we know now, we would have started deploying SAP HANA much earlier, because it’s so important for business... We think it’s even more disruptive than we initially thought — we’ve only just started”

Marc Béchet, VP Global IT ERP, Unilever


Savannah Cement

"Now, we are able to make decisions based on actual informed facts instead of on people’s intuition.”

Brian Wamwenje, CIO


Predictive Maintenance


NETWORKEDECONOMY


Information Ecosystems

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Join The Business Network Of The Future

SuppliersBuyers

ProcurementSales

FinanceLogistics

Supply ChainSustainabilityCompliance

Partners


CONCLUSION


For more than 40 years, SAP has helped businesses run better and improve people’s lives everywhere.

Market leaderfor mobile

business applications

Fastest growing database vendor Market leader in

productsfor business

analysis

SAP HANAis the market

leading platform forreal time computing

Fastest growing company at scale

in the cloud

We are the world’s largest provider of Enterprise Application SoftwareAnd we run the world’s largest Business Network


Hyper-personalizeCustomer Experience

Plan & optimizeResources in Real-time

Engage & empowerWorkforce of the Future

Harness the intelligence ofNetworked Economy

Let us work with you to help you Run Simple


“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the

opposite direction.”

E.F. Schumacher

S/4 HANA: Run Simple.

“Enterprise software used to be about making existing work more efficient. Now the opportunity is for software to

transform the work itself.” Aaron Levie

Thank You!Timo ElliottVP, Global innovation Evangelist

[email protected] @timoelliott

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