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  1. A curated educational experience delivering the lessons, customer stories, tools, and resources you need to improve your SAP skills, tackle your toughest projects, and transform professionally and personally.

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    Join SAP end users, experts, partners, and SAP leaders for 3 days of connecting, learning, and collaborating. A curated educational experience delivering the lessons, customer stories, tools, and resources you need to improve your SAP skills, tackle your toughest projects, and transform professionally and personally.

  2. Improving the Financial Close Process Through Automation and Visibility

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Finance teams face increasing demands for efficiency, prompting organizations to adopt automation in their financial close processes; however, only 26% of SAP users implement crucial automated solutions despite over 75% recognizing their importance, underscoring the necessity of streamlining workflows for improved accuracy, compliance, and decision-making.

  3. Applying Agentic AI in Finance and Accounting

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Tungsten Automation is leveraging AI across its solutions—particularly in finance and accounting—to streamline business processes with advanced features like AI agents, enhancing efficiency and adaptability beyond traditional automation.

  4. The State of Automation in the Financial Close Process

    Reading time: 4 mins

    A preliminary SAPinsider study highlights the urgent need for companies to automate financial close processes due to inefficiencies caused by disparate systems, with over half of financial teams planning further automation, while the current average closing time remains at eight days.

  5. SAP’s AI Copilot Joule: Implications for Finance

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Joule by SAP represents a transformative step in enhancing AI and human collaboration within the finance sector. With its extensive integration into SAP’s suite of applications and addressing the challenges and needs highlighted by SAPinsider benchmark research, Joule is positioned to significantly impact finance teams using SAP systems. It aims to increase productivity by providing…

  6. Financial Close Transformation – Research Report

    Reading time: 1 mins

    As organizations increasingly rely on data to make decisions, the need for efficient and accurate financial closes has never been greater. However, many finance and accounting (F&A) teams still rely on manual financial close activities, leading to errors and delays. This leaves executives with less time for analysis and puts them at a disadvantage when…

  7. Accelerating the Financial Close Process

    Reading time: 4 mins

    In this article, you'll explore how solutions like FS2 JournalEntry automate processing, review and approval of all manual journal entries (recurring, intercompany, FX, etc.) and enables accurate and transparent reporting. The solution validates accounting information (e.g., cost centers) at initial upload/creation, automates the processing of non-PO invoices and expenses, enables touchless payment processing and provides…

  8. SAP Financial Close

    SAP Financial Period Close: Rethinking Journal Automation, Compliance, and Reporting

    November 02, 2022

    According to SAPinsider research, the SAP financial close process is a significant pain point for most organizations. Dependance on manual processes and poorly integrated systems cause many companies to struggle with inefficiency. Process improvements, like continuous journal entry, combined with an automated workflow help make the entire financial close process more manageable. Join financial experts from…

  9. Application-Strategy

    Application Strategy and Development for SAP S/4HANA and Cloud Research Webinar

    March 10, 2022

    On Demand With digital transformation initiatives maturing and the market presenting an increasing range of new software solutions, IT departments are developing sophisticated application strategies and roadmaps to deliver quality applications rapidly without blowing up budgets. For SAP customers, the critical challenge is how they can monetize their past SAP investments while rapidly deploying applications that…

  10. Automation in Finance Research Webinar

    February 08, 2022

    On Demand Organizations are investing in financial process automation with the goal of driving efficiency across end-to-end business processes to enable real-time insight. The growing availability of automation solutions from SAP and third-party vendors, provides a catalyst for SAPinsider organizations to align best practices with intelligent automation technologies, such as robotic process automation (RPA), artificial…