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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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Webinar On-Demand: Cash Management and Cash Visibility ResearchJul 12, 2022 — The growing demands of the finance function to keep pace with evolving business models have introduced new challenges and opportunities that require executives to rethink how they manage their organizations' cash flow. To stay competitive, companies must develop strategies that provide greater transparency into their end-to-end cash flow processes across all functions, workflows, and systems — from forecasting through invoice payment. With this visibility, finance and accounting teams aim to deliver more accurate, timely, and harmonized cash reporting. This is the primary driver of an organization’s approach to cash management and cash visibility within our community.
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Serrala and BNP PARIBAS announce AR automation global referral partnershipJan 21, 2022 — by Ogo Nwanyanwu, Research Director, SAPinsider BNP PARIBAS to extend AR automation offering from Serrala to enterprise customers Serrala and BNP PARIBAS have agreed on a global referral partnership to support the implementation of AR Automation solutions for BNP PARIBAS enterprise customers. The referral partnership expands BNP PARIBAS’s service offering the Serrala Accounts Receivable Automation portfolio, covering the order-to-cash (O2C) […]
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How the Swiss Federal Administration planned their SAP S/4HANA move with security by design in mindMay 11, 2021 — Hardly any other domain has changed as much as cybersecurity in recent years and ensuring SAP security in a dynamic environment is a constant challenge.
As SAP Systems are being more integrated with other (Cloud) solutions, they are nowadays increasingly exposed to higher risks. The extensive use of cloud components is changing the attack vectors of many SAP customers as they experience how SAP S/4HANA migration rapidly leads to a hybrid SAP ecosystem. Very soon the pressure to act increases and SAP customers realize traditional concepts for SAP security are less effective within hybrid landscapes and agile methodologies.
It is time to take back control and build your SAP ecosystem securely from scratch. The earlier security is taken into account, the better, and the migration to SAP S/4HANA is an ideal time to eliminate security deficiencies.
Security must be timely considered in the migration process and "security by design" seems to be a valid approach for this challenge. In this session you will learn how the swiss federal administration adopted this principle within their SAP S/4HANA migration program that was executed with the SAFe methodology, where they defined security by design as an architecture principle.
Take a deep dive and learn how the swiss federal administration is managing SAP Security within its SAP S/4HANA migration program and attend this comprehensive session to:
- Learn what’s security by design and how it can be implemented in a SAP S/4HANA migration project
- Learn how to fill the gaps from the SAP Secure Operations Map and extend it to a holistic SAP Security Framework
- Get practical tips and lessons learned on how to plan your SAP S/4HANA migration considering security by design
- Learn how to execute and orchestrate SAP Security by design within an agile environment
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From Push to Pull: Deutsche Börse Group’s Approach to Digitization, Process Redesign, and Defining Sustainable User JourneysApr 13, 2021 — If you only try to force change from the top, you will not be able to build sustainable results. Many CIOs fall into a common trap when trying to drive their transformation projects – implementing too much too soon without getting enough support from their teams and line of business stakeholders.
In this article, Lars Bolanca, Head of Corporate IT at Deutsche Börse Group shares the company’s multi-year project and explains how they prioritized innovation within its core processes, starting with basic functions such as purchasing and travel expense before moving to customer-facing and more complex initiatives like Financial Core.
Read the article to:
- Know about the SAP and other cloud-based solutions that Deutsche Börse relies on as part of its journey;
- Learn how the company renovated its existing infrastructure and process landscape; and
- Understand how turning innovation initiatives from push to pull can be useful to gain support for innovation, align user journeys with demand, and achieve process standardization across the business.
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Data Warehouse Overhaul Helps Helvetia Simplify Reporting and Analytics for HR — to StartJan 8, 2021 — Data warehouses serve as a central repository for information coming from multiple internal and external sources, enabling businesses to perform reporting and analytics and turn data into insights. For a company like Helvetia Group, which has been insuring products ranging from private and occupational pensions to liability, motor vehicle, transport, and property insurance for more than 160 years, achieving such insights enables the company to deliver meaningful and relevant information to its customers in a secure and convenient fashion.
In 2019, the company founded a “Data & Analytics” division tasked with improving the company’s SAP landscape, specifically around its two existing SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) systems. Before committing to upgrade the larger SAP BW system to SAP BW/4HANA — which has many dependencies on other projects and SAP and non-SAP systems — the company decided to first perform an inplace conversion for the smaller system — which contains the company’s HR data prior to 2020 — as a test run. Learn how the company’s SAP BW/4HANA conversion supports Helvetia’s commitment to simplicity and serves as an important preparation step for its broader IT innovation plans.
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Financials: Case study: How Great-West Financial optimizes its accounts payable processes with limited purchasing integrationMar 6, 2019 — Discover how Great-West Financial optimized its accounts payable processes. FIN2017_Topping_Casestudyhowgreatwest Susan Topping If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.
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Is Your Tax Technology Future Ready?Jan 25, 2018 —
Having the right tax technology in place is crucial for dealing with the many changes in the global tax landscape. Digital-era tax compliance demands are challenging companies, putting them at risk for non-compliance and pressuring them to move away from spreadsheets and ad hoc practices. Reliance on such homegrown applications is no longer an option for keeping up with the swift changes in tax rules and rate changes. Advanced tax-specific software that is integrated with a company’s ERP system can address these pressures. This article examines how to support an end-to-end tax life cycle with tax-specific software.
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