SAP S/4 HANA Finance

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SAP S/4 HANA Finance• Overview of SAP HANA• Overview of the SAP Simple Finance add

on• The Universal Journal & Central Finance• Migration to the SAP Simple Finance add

on• The New Asset Accounting- Overview &

Migration• Results of the migration• Overview of SAP Fiori• Cash & Credit Management

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SAP S/4 HANA Finance• Overview of SAP HANA• Overview of the SAP Simple Finance add on• The Universal Journal & Central Finance• Migration to the SAP Simple Finance add on• The New Asset Accounting- Overview &

Migration• Results of the migration• Overview of SAP Fiori• Cash & Credit Management

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SAP HANA SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that

is deployable as an on-premise appliance, or in the cloud.  It is a revolutionary platform that’s best suited for performing real-time analytics, and developing and deploying real-time applications. At the core of this real-time data platform is the SAP HANA database which is fundamentally different than any other database engine in the market today

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SAP HANA Real-time analytics – The Categories of

Analytics which HANA specializes Operational Reporting (real-time insights from

transaction systems such as custom or SAP ERP). This covers Sales Reporting (improving fulfillment rates and accelerating key sales processes), Financial Reporting (immediate insights across revenue, customers, accounts payable, etc.), Shipping Reporting(better enabling complete stock overview analysis), Purchasing Reporting (complete real-time analysis of complete order history) and Master Data Reporting (real-time ability to impact productivity and accuracy).

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SAP HANA Data Warehousing (SAP NetWeaver BW on

HANA) – BW customers can run their entire BW application on the SAP HANA platform leading to unprecedented BW performance (queries run 10-100 times faster; data loads 5-10 times faster; calculations run 5-10 times faster), a dramatically simplified IT landscape (leads to greater operational efficiency and reduced waste), and a business community able to make faster decisions. Moreover, not only is the BW investment of these customers preserved but also super-charged. Customers can migrate with ease to the SAP HANA database without impacting the BW application layer at all.

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SAP HANA Predictive and Text analysis on Big Data - To

succeed, companies must go beyond focusing on delivering the best product or service and uncover customer/employee /vendor/partner trends and insights, anticipate behavior and take proactive action. SAP HANA provides the ability to perform predictive and text analysis on large volumes of data in real-time. It does this through the power of its in-database predictive algorithms and its R integration capability. With its text search/analysis capabilities SAP HANA also provides a robust way to leverage unstructured data.

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SAP HANA Real-time applications – The Categories

of Applications which HANA specializes Core process accelerators – Accelerate

business reporting by leveraging ERP Accelerators, which are non-disruptive ways to take advantage of in-memory technology. These solutions involve an SAP HANA database sitting next to a customer’s SAP ERP system. Transactional data is replicated in real-time from ECC into HANA for immediate reporting, and then results can even be fed back into ECC. Solutions include CO-PA Accelerator, Finance and Controlling Accelerator, Customer Segmentation Accelerator, Sales Pipeline Analysis, and more.

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SAP HANA Planning, Optimization Apps – SAP HANA

excels at applications that require complex scheduling with fast results, and SAP is delivering solutions that no other vendor can match. These include Sales & Operational Planning, BusinessObjects Planning & Consolidation, Cash Forecasting, ATP calculation, Margin calculation,  Manufacturing scheduling optimization (from start-up Optessa), and more.

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SAP HANA Sense & response apps – These applications

offer real-time insights on Big Data such as smart meter data, point-of-sale data, social media data, and more. They involve complexities such as personalized insight and recommendations, text search and mining, and predictive analytics. Only SAP HANA is well suited for such applications, including Smart Meter Analytics, SAP Supplier InfoNet, SAP precision retailing, and Geo-spatial Visualization apps (from start-up Space-Time Insight). Typically these processes tend to be data-intensive and many could not be deployed in the past owing to cost and performance constraints.

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SAP S4 HANA SAP Business Suite 4 HANA -

S/4HANA is an ERP innovation based on a new and radically simplified data model design concept which is only possible with an in-memory database like SAP HANA. 

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SAP S4 HANA Based on the new data model, S/4HANA replaces

successively the old code line with a new code line which is unconstrained from the confinements of the traditional databases and which allows SAP, partner and customer developers to maximize the benefits of the modern in memory database technology to the fullest extent.

Modern in-memory technology as in SAP HANA we define as in-memory first processing instead of replicating a subset of data from disc to memory.

The first innovation delivered with S/4HANA is sFiN, available for cloud and on premise editions. Next lining up is a new project services module, currently only available in the cloud edition,

S/4HANA release 1511 (2015 - November) is the latest release for the on premise edition delivering innovations in additional Business Process areas. 

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SAP S4 HANA SAP is leading the S/4HANA innovation

with the S/4HANA cloud edition, releasing 4 upgrades every year, which are available as a bundle once a year for on premise customers. This year’s sFiN release was an exception, as this release was available on premise and in the cloud at the same time.

sFin is mandatory for all additional, future innovations, as S/4HANA is a fully integrated system.

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Planned Roadmap

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Q&A