Financial Services
Financial Services is a crucial industry for SAP. Financial services companies face many growing challenges, including ever-changing regulations, evolving consumer expectations, economic instability, and increased competition brought on from digital-only organizations. These drivers make it imperative to transform and become more efficient, better engaged, and resilient.
SAP and Partner Solutions for Financial Services (H2)
There are many solutions in the SAP ecosystem that are relevant to the Financial Services sector:
Financial Services is a crucial industry for SAP. Financial services companies face many growing challenges, including ever-changing regulations, evolving consumer expectations, economic instability, and increased competition brought on from digital-only organizations. These drivers make it imperative to transform and become more efficient, better engaged, and resilient.
SAP and Partner Solutions for Financial Services (H2)
There are many solutions in the SAP ecosystem that are relevant to the Financial Services sector:
- Digital Customer Engagement is about modernizing the way companies reach consumers, which can include omnichannel commerce, customer experience management, digital banking, customer analytics, and marketing offerings.
- Finance and Risk solutions help companies stay compliant and avoid risk by touching on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) functionality, financial planning and analysis, data services, reporting, and accounting for financial instruments.
- Banking Operations tools aim to help those in the banking industry with key functions including card management, retail services, payments, cash and liquidity management, and commercial lending.
- Total Spend Management is about helping companies get a centralized view of spend by combining multiple cloud offerings around procurement, vendor management, sourcing and contracting, invoicing and payables, travel reimbursement, and analytics.
- HCM and HXM solutions help organizations with recruiting, onboarding, talent management, and more.
- Core ERP systems act as a system of record for key transactional information.
The financial services sector is turning to technology to assist with becoming more digital and more relevant to consumers. At the same time, they are looking to build processes and systems that can provide centralized views of data around customers, compliance, risk, finance, and employees.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
Financial services companies are utilizing SAP and partner solutions as part of their transformation programs within a variety of focus areas, including security, automation, and digitization.
- How Zurich North America used BlackLine to move to SAP S/4HANA. Read this case study to hear about Zurich North America’s SAP S/4HANA migration, including how it utilized Blackline Solutions for Automation & Control during the project.
- Swiss Federal Administration planned its SAP S/4HANA move with security design in mind. Read this case study to learn how the Swiss Federal Administration managed SAP Security within its SAP S/4HANA migration.
- Deutsche Börse Group’s approach to digitization, process redesign, and defining sustainable user journeys. Read this Q&A to learn about Deutsch Börse Group is transforming its SAP landscape while also transforming its business overall.
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