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SAP Roadmap for EnterprisePerformance Management for

Finance



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2011 Gartner / FEI Technology Study , May 2011

Performance management solutions helpaddress top priorities for finance professionals

0 10 20 30 40 50

Integrating finance with overall enterprise

Integrating strategy with operations

Enterprise view of business relationships

Position company for profitable growth

Measuring customer and product profitability

Measuring business performance

Effective sharing of information

Data quality

Reducing enterprise operating costs

Facilitating analysis and decision making

% of respondents

Process highlighted as most in need of improvement




Comprehensive and proven suitefor solutions that incorporates a

risk management perspective

Unified, finance-owned solutionswith self-service reporting and

analysis

Complete solution for the financialclose from transactional processing

to disclosure with embedded

controls and risk management

OUTPERFORMFINANCIAL OBJECTIVES

ENSURE REGULATORYCOMPLIANCE AND EFFECTIVE

RISK MANAGEMENT

How customers deliver „Best Practice‟

DELIVER SUPERIOR SERVICE

AT REDUCED COST

SAP BusinessObjectsStrategy Management

SAP BusinessObjectsPlanning and Consolidation

SAP BusinessObjectsProfitability and Cost Management

SAP BusinessObjectsPlanning and Consolidation

SAP BusinessObjectsFinancial Consolidation

SAP BusinessObjectsIntercompany

SAP BusinessObjectsDisclosure Management

SAP BusinessObjectsFinancial Information Management

SAP BusinessObjectsDisclosure Management

Supporting applications Supporting applications Supporting applications




Planned Innovations Future DirectionSolution Today

Overview of SAP Road Map for Enterprise PerformanceManagement for Finance

Planning, Budgeting andForecasting

Financial Consolidation andClose

Disclosure Managment

Starter Kits

Strategymanagement planning.

Budgeting and forecastingfinancial consolidation

disclosure managementprofitability and cost

management

Strategize& Prioritize

Plan &Execute

Monitor& Analyze

Model &Optimize

IncreasedRegulatoryCompliance

Cloud

In-memoryComputing

MobilePerformanceManagement

IntegratedBusinessPlanning

Strategy Management

Profitability and Cost

Management




SOLUTION TODAY Planned Innovations Future Direction





Starter Kits IncreasedRegulatoryCompliance

Cloud

In-memoryComputing






management


Plan &Execute

Monitor& Analyze

Model &Optimize

Strategy Management


Management




SAP Solutions for Enterprise Performance Managementfor Finance

SOLUTION TODAY

Strategy ManagementPlanning, Budgeting and

ForecastingProfitability and Cost

ManagementFinancial ConsolidationDisclosure Management


Plan &Execute

Monitor& Analyze

Model &Optimize

Align BetterDrive consistent execution of strategyEnsure everybody is on the same page by linkinggoals, metrics and plans throughout the organization

Adapt Better Increase organizational agility Be prepared and able to rapidly adjust plans andrealign resources to seize opportunities or mitigate risks

Operate BetterImprove profitability and efficiency Make informed decisions that drive the bottom line andreduce the time and cost of regulatory compliance


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SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise PerformanceManagement 10.0

SOLUTION TODAY

TransformationalComprehensiveUnified

Common interfaces for a seamlessuser experience that leads toquicker adoption and improvedproductivity

Deeper integration with SAP NW,ERP, and other Business Analyticsapplications improvesmanageability and reduces cost ofownership

Pre-packed best practice-basedsolutions for specific industriesand lines of business deliver fastertime to value with better results

Most complete suite of EPMsolutions including disclosuremanagement capabilities thataccelerate the „last mile of finance‟

Mobile performance managementincreases productivity and helpsorganizations become more agile,responsive, and better equipped to

succeed

Powered by SAP HANAapplications provide instant insightand allow users to plan at levels ofdetail never before possible



SAP Solutions for Enterprise Performance Managementdrive value for customers today

SOLUTION TODAY

60%faster reportingcycle time

66% 55%less time toforecast monthlyrevenue

reduction intime to allocateproduct costs



Future DirectionSolution Today PLANNED INNOVATIONS






Cloud

In-memoryComputing






management


Plan &Execute

Monitor& Analyze

Model &Optimize

Strategy Management


Management



Planned key innovations for Enterprise PerformanceManagement for Finance

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

Key Needs Key InnovationsStrategyManagement

Desire to leverage industry best practices andlearn from peers

Improved ease of use, lower cost of ownershipwith industry specific content

Planning,budgeting andforecasting

Growing aspiration to integrate planningprocesses across the organization

Need to address increasing data volumes In-memory enabled planning processes

Financial

Consolidationand Close

Increased pressure for an integrated end-to-

end financial close and reporting solution toaccelerate the closing process withoutsacrifice of compliance, control or flexibility

Enhanced integration of Master data,

Intercompany and Disclosure Management Performance enhancements in reporting via

HANA and improved support for time-dependent reporting

DisclosureManagement

Need to cope with an ever more complex “last

mile of finance” processes and changingregulatory reporting requirements

Planned support for additional regulatoryformats and filings

NotesManagement

Manage unstructured data that supplementsfinancial and regulatory disclosures and tie it

to consolidation values

Enhanced integration and compatibility withstrategic SAP solutions and Microsoft Office

solutions

Financial CloseStarter Kits

Ability to speed deployments and effectivelycomply with financial regulations

Enhancements to the scope of deliveredcontent and the regularly rules supported

Profitability andCost Management

Increasing focus on analysis and decisionmaking requires greater insight acrossbroader teams

Advanced integration with best in marketbusiness intelligence solutions



Solution Enhancements Key Benefits

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SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management

Enhanced ease of use

User definable Initiative fields

User driven incrementalenhancements

Broadened range of initiative types

that can be managed within thesolution

New industry specific use casesand embedded content

• Enhanced ease of use

• Reduced cost of ownership

• More flexibility in managinginitiatives across the enterprise

• Faster time to value

• Ability to leverage industry bestpractices

PLANNED INNOVATIONS


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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,version for the Microsoft platform – Planning

• Support MS SQL Server 2012

• Improved Business Process Flowsand Admin client functionality

• Enhanced Excel Integration

• SharePoint Integration

• Publicly supported APIs forenabling extensible solutions

• Expanded Browser support

• Utilize latest MS server/clienttechnology for In-Memory forperformance and scalability

• Admin client functionality is moreuser friendly and intuitive

• Grow the Ecosystem via Partnerdeveloped solutions/content

PLANNED INNOVATIONS






SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,version for SAP NetWeaver – Planning

• Performance improvements andscalability by utilizing SAP HANA

• Support for Time DependentHierarchies

• More flexible data access security

• Driver Based Planning provides outof the box functionality to make thistype of planning model easier toconfigure and deploy

• Automated Variance Analysis (AVA)provides delivered variancecapabilities making it easier toanalyze data as opposed tovalidation reports

• Expanded Browser support

• Increased Integration for SAPNetWeaver BW, SAPBusinessObjects BI and SAPBusiness Suite

• Performance and Scalabilityimprovements with In-memory/column storage providedby SAP HANA

• In addition to basicperformance/scalability we can

address businessproblems/functions that mightotherwise have been not practicaldue to performance reasons

• Lower TCO for integration intoother SAP tools

PLANNED INNOVATIONS






SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,version for the Microsoft platform – Consolidation

• Enhanced Control and Validations

• Consolidation Monitor

• Enhanced Audit Capabilities

• Enhanced integration with SAPBusinessObjects Disclosure

Management

• Reduced time to close throughenhanced monitoring andperformance on re-consolidation.

• Increased confidence in thereliability, accuracy andcompleteness of reported financial

information

• Reduced costs and time to closethrough automation of previouslymanual activities and analysis.

PLANNED INNOVATIONS






SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation,version for SAP NetWeaver – Consolidation

• Extended Audit Capabilities

• Integration with SAP Master DataGovernance for Finance

• Enhanced for support for Time-Dependent Reporting

• Enhanced Integration with SAPBusinessObjects Intercompany

• Enhanced integration with SAPBusinessObjects Disclosure andSAP BusinessObjects NotesManagement

• SAP HANA as underlyingdatabase

• Increased visibility into changesaffecting reported balances.

• Accelerated financial closingthrough integration and automationof the financial close process.

• Enhanced support for reportingbased on both current(management) and historical (legal)views of reported data.

• Performance enhancementsavailable via SAP HANA asunderlying database.

PLANNED INNOVATIONS






SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation and SAPBusinessObjects Intercompany

SAP BusinessObjects FinancialConsolidation

• Enhanced support for integrationwith external Master DataMaintenance Applications

• Enhanced integration with SAPBusinessObjects DisclosureManagement

SAP BusinessObjectsIntercompany

• Support for multi-dimensionalmatching and reporting

• Increased flexibility in automationof transactional matching

• Enhanced Integration with SAPBusinessObjects Planning andConsolidations

• Accelerate the end to end financialclose process

• Consistency of master data acrossFinancial systems

• Reduced costs and risk of errors

• Accelerate the end to end financialclose process through greaterautomation

• Reconciliation processes

PLANNED INNOVATIONS






SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management

• Deeper integration with SAPlandscapes for server-side refreshof data

• Planned capabilities for singlesign-on to source data systems

• Enhanced tools for dataconsistency and validation

• Extended language support

• Planned support for additionalregulatory formats and filings

• Enhanced usability for XBRLtagging and extension

• Accelerate the update of financialinformation by streamlining theintegration of consolidationinformation

• Increase confidence in thereliability of financial statements by

enabling simpler verification ofdisclosure data

• Lower the cost of compliance ofregulatory filings in the XBRLformat by supporting additionalstandards

• Increase the usability for financialprofessionals to manage disclosure

data for XBRL filings

PLANNED INNOVATIONS






SAP BusinessObjects Notes Management

• Compatibility with supported SAPBW landscapes for supplementingnumeric data with notesinformation, including NetWeaverBW on SAP HANA

• Enhanced integration with other

SAP BusinessObjects solutionsincluding consolidations anddisclosure management

• Enhanced compatibility withcurrent Microsoft Office solutions

• Simplified creation of forms tocollect unstructured data

• Enhancements for increasedusability

• Delivery of standard acceleratorswith predefined content

Lower cost of ownership throughconsistency of data integrationand compatibility with SAPlandscapes

Embrace the future strategicdirection of the SAP portfolio to

support SAP HANA

Accelerate the financial closethrough superior integration withSAP solutions as part of the end-to-end close process

Enable continued acceptance ofthe Microsoft Excel environmentwith compatibility of on-going

Microsoft Office upgrades Reduce the cost and complexity of

implementations for specificindustry and regulatoryrequirements

PLANNED INNOVATIONS






Financial Close Starter Kits

• Planning and Consolidation StarterKit for Legal and ManagementReporting on SAP NetWeaver

• First set of BI on Mobile financialKPIs for Planning andConsolidation on SAP NetWeaver

• SAP BusinessObjects FinancialConsolidation Starter Kit for IFRSSP1 with goodwill automatedcalculation

• Disclosure Management XBRLStarter Kits For US GAAP, IndianGAAP

• Disclosure Management Starter Kit

For Key IAS1 Publishable FinancialStatements

• Pre-defined Unified planning &consolidation content for thecorporate financial close in IFRSand non-IFRS countries

• KPIs as Budget Ratio, SalesGrowth %, ROCE… ready-to-use

on mobile device and/or Planningand Consolidation, version for SAPNetWeaver

• Streamlined compliance IFRS 3“Business Combinations” and IAS

28 “Investments in Associates”

• Lower the cost of compliance ofregulatory filings in XBRL format

via additional standards support• Pre-designed data cache and 9-

chapter IFRS based financial reportincluding best practices BPC data in BW

DDT Connector

PLANNED INNOVATIONS






SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management

• Integration with latest release ofBI solutions

Advanced Analysis support

Reporting through theDimensional Semantic Layer

Integration into BI Portal andauthentication services

• Enhance Export to Universe

Incremental exports

Drill up and down for raggedand unbalanced hierarchies

Support of main and attributehierarchies

Creation of multi-measureuniverses

Sample Reports

• Cost Tracing

• Cost Object Unit Rates

• Leverage advances in latestrelease of BI solutions

• Support for rich hierarchies andOLAP style reporting

• Options for static (published) andreal time reporting approachestaking advantage of in-memorycomputing

• Example universe and reportingcontent for faster time to value

• End users visibility into the sourceand target of costs and the relateddrivers

PLANNED INNOVATIONS




FUTURE DIRECTIONPlanned InnovationsSolution Today






Cloud

In-memoryComputing



Strategy

management planning.Budgeting and forecasting

financial consolidationdisclosure management

profitability and costmanagement


Plan &Execute

Monitor& Analyze

Model &Optimize

Strategy Management


Management




FUTURE DIRECTION

Growing need for Integrated Business Planning

Enabling planning processes spanning strategicplanning, financial planning and sales and operationsplanning

Increased regulatory complexity

Support adoption of changing standards like XBRL and

IFRS and changing attitudes towards risk

Increasing number of deployment options andneed to manage processes anytime, anywhere

On-premise, hosted, virtual and cloud

EPM solutions on mobile devices and tablets

Growing challenge of “Big Data”

Increased organizational complexity requiresorganizations to collect, analyze and report onincreasing volumes of data to spot key business trends

Key trends driving the future for enterprise performancemanagement

IncreasedRegulatoryCompliance

Cloud

In-memoryComputing






Key trends driving the future for EPM – IntegratedBusiness Planning

FUTURE DIRECTION

Single platform for real-time data,functional models, processes, security,UIs and Business Logic acrossFinance and beyond

Enabled by SAP HANA for complex

calculations, large data volumes andreal-time performance management

Support for Any Deployment and AnyDevice

On Premise, Hosted, Virtual and Cloud

Device and Browser agnostic Native Microsoft Office

High PerformanceReporting and Planning Platform

Operational Systems(e.g. ERP, TPM, APO)

StrategicPlanning

FinancialPlanning

Sales and

OperationsPlanning

Operational

Planning

SAP HANATM Platform

Execution Systems(ex. ERP, CRM, SCM)




Key trends driving the future for EPM – IncreasedRegulatory Compliance

FUTURE DIRECTION

Convergence of global accountingstandards and drive towards globaladoption of IFRS

Growing adoption of XBRL based filingfor financial and business data in all

geographies and across multipleregulatory frameworks

Changing nature of financial reportingwith increased focus on disclosures,notes, narrative and non-financialindicators of business performance




Key trends driving the future for EPM – CloudHANA Application Cloud

FUTURE DIRECTION

An on-demand application environmentbased on SAP‟s in-memory HANAtechnology, delivered by SAP on its on-demand cloud infrastructure.

Allows customers to immediately leveragethe benefits of HANA with the relatedcharacteristics of providing an easy toconsume, utility-computing-like andscalable on demand offering.

Extremely large data sets can be analyzed;complex planning scenarios can beperformed that require massive use of

memory and CPU

Initial focus on use cases that are notheavily reliant on Business Suite or otherback-end data.




Key trends driving the future for EPM – MobilePerformance Management

FUTURE DIRECTION

Leverage SAP mobility solutionsincluding SAP BusinessObjects Mobileand the Sybase Unwired Platform

Support various devices and platforms – provide a consistent user experience

independent of device (e.g. smartphone, tablet and laptops) andplatforms (e.g. Android, iOS)

Provide a simplified and intuitiveinterface for enterprise performancemanagement applications designedspecifically for mobile devices




Key trends driving the future for EPM – Challenge of “Big

Data”

FUTURE DIRECTION

Performance/Scalability

Utilize the powers of SAP HANA to provideincreased application performance on largedata sets

– Leverage SAP HANA‟s multi-threading power andin-memory computation power to accelerate

calculation-intensive operations

Customer-Driven Innovations

Co-innovate with customers to deliverrevolutionary business value for theirinvestments

Target business functionality previouslydeemed un-feasible due to performanceconsiderations

SAP BusinessObjects Planning andConsolidation 10.0, version for SAP

NetWeaver SP6*

SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 SP5*

SAP HANA 1.0 SP3*

SAP NetWeaver Server

Web / Microsoft Office Clients

* Planned future release, subject to change including

support packs

NOTE: SAP HANA is planned to be optional not arequirement to replace traditional RDBMS




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