We all have read the new mantra multiple times: if we simplify everything - we can do anything. This holds true for the finance department more than ever, considering that the use of technology is key to enabling a real-time business process environment. There were some threatening results revealed in a recent study that the CFO magazine has published, like "80% of respondents would need easier to use technology if they'd wanted to meet their growth targets". So, this latest shift in technology enabling true real-time processes will be the focus topic of this year's Financials 2015 / GRC 2015 event hosted in Las Vegas in March (Wynn Hotel, 3/17-3/20, follow the discussion #Financials2015). Make sure you use the early bird discounts.
As there will be hundreds of sessions that show customer success stories, the latest and greatest in financial management, EPM, Analytics, GRC and Ariba solutions I would like to highlight the Simple Finance sessions so that you can build your agenda around those, especially given that any S4/HANA journey will start with Simple Finance:
- start with the keynote where Thack Brown will elaborate on the need for speed (aka real-time finance processes) and introduces some external thought leaders to the panel discussions around a modern finance organization. I won't tell too much when mentioning that Thack will launch another important mile stone of Simple Finance to the public...
- one of the most compelling use cases of Simple Finance is the central journal, so this session lead by Carsten Hilker shows you how to non-disruptively start your Simple Finance implementation arriving at one source of the truth
- for those in need of a high-level introduction to Simple Finance I'd highly recommend Martin Naraschewski's session about the roadmap to Simple Finance, where he will elaborate on the needs of a typical finance transformation initiative
- one thing that was highly anticipated by you all is more insight into Integrated Business Planning - your unique opportunity to natively connect EPM with your Simple Finance ERP system to allow planning, simulations and scenario modeling directly on your transactional data. Pras Chatterjee off course will show integration to the new Cloud for Planning solution as well
- new to the game is the Simple Finance Cash Management solution that is introduced by Christian Mnich, where he will give insights into how to better plan and forecast liquidity based on an integrated process leveraging your ERP / S4HANA system
- a dedicated session on the new Accounting solution will provide better understanding of the concepts of the greatest innovation since R/3 building the base for S4HANA. Stefan Karl will guide you through this
- want to learn how to get to Simple Finance? Join charming expert Birgit Starmanns and understand what to consider if you want to adopt Simple Finance including advanced predictive finance analytics
- join our partner John Steele at Deloitte when he talks about real-time finance processes and the role that HANA plays in this highlighting finance use cases like fast close, financial risk management or finance operations
- the experts from TruQua will deliver a thrilling session around the analytics that Simple Finance can provide in form of HANA Live content or via integration of SAP Analytics and EPM solutions. Dave Dixon's presentation is a good example
- finally you'd want to learn about the fast close capabilities of Simple Finance where Stefan Karl walks you through how to become a world's fastest closing company like SAP
Note there are many "hands-on"-like sessions on the Monday (3/6) as part of the Pre-Conference Workshops that deliver tremendous value for practitioners.
Please be sure this is just the Simple Finance top 10 - please be sure you also learn from customers how SAP Financial Management solutions helped them achieve targets.
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