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MTY Group’s EPM Solution: Consolidated Reporting and Planning for Financial Statements, Sales and Royalties with SAP Analytics CloudSep 15, 2025  —  Enterprise Performance Management par excellence: This retail and restaurant group came to SimpleFi for help determining whether SAP Analytics Cloud with PlaniFi Applications could meet their consolidations, financial reporting, and group / local planning requirements. The company wanted to modernize FP&A and reporting processes across their landscape which had grown exponentially through various acquisitions resulting in over 60 distinct ERP systems, the majority being on SAGE. See below to learn more!
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Pre-Packaged Solution for Project Planning & AnalyticsJul 12, 2024  —  Check out our past demo as SimpleFi's Managing Partner, Jon Essig, discusses and gives a live demonstration of Financial Statement Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud.
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Financial Close Transformation Journey: Google and SAP on Google CloudOct 20, 2023  —  For years, Google and SAP have worked together to provide efficient solutions for businesses. From 2018 to 2021, Google integrated SAP’s comprehensive data models and end-to-end business processes with Google Cloud technologies, impacting nearly 300,000 direct and indirect employees, as well as numerous other vendors and partners. This project aimed to help key decision-makers shed manual tasks, legacy tools, and data dispersed over various platforms with transformative solutions. In this article, SAPinsider Research Director Ogo Nwanyanwu examines several of the key innovations and solutions that emerged from this partnership, such as Google Cloud Cortex Framework, BigQuery solutions, and Building Blocks and Templates. You will also learn about the benefits of the partnership, including enhanced data specificity and security, as well as reduced systems and improved user satisfaction.
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Working With SAP Material Ledger and SAP Group Reporting in HANA 2022Sep 8, 2023  —  Intercompany transactions require significant attention and have always been a critical part of the financial analysis world in SAP. Certainly, this process is very complex, and it will require significant resources with different levels of expertise as operational reporting and business requirements become more detailed. In this article, SAPinsider expert Dr. March Sisfontes-Monge will highlight some of the key updates to SAP Material Ledger and SAP group reporting. You will gain key insights as to how these updates affect crucial considerations, such as Profit in Inventory (PII), Intercompany Profit Elimination (IPE), Transfer Pricing and many more. It will also walk through helpful examples to demonstrate the capacity of SAP to help business leaders handle difficult supply chain situations.
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Technical Guide: Migrating SAP General Ledger Data for SAP S/4HANAJul 31, 2020  —  SAP has simplified its accounting design by introducing the Universal Journal, resulting in significant change to the pillar of GL accounting—GL account master data. Whether a customer is pursuing a greenfield implementation or a technical migration to SAP S/4HANA, maintenance or migration to GL accounts using the new technical framework is a basic yet important step. GL account master data is managed using many fields across its Fiori views. These fields hold key information that drives postings in the new universal journal accounting entries. This article will explain how to adopt, maintain, or migrate to these fields in a meaningful way when undergoing a new SAP S/4HANA project, or performing a technical upgrade to SAP S/4HANA. After reading this article you will be able to: - Explain what GL master data is and why it should matter to SAP customers - Understand key fields within the Fiori Apps for GL configuration and maintenance -Learn how Universal Journal line items post into table ACDOCA and how this has changed from SAP’s historical approach for finance and controlling postings
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Enhance SAP BPC: Discover How to Take Financial Planning to the Next LevelFeb 4, 2020  —  Extend Your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Application with SAP Analytics Cloud By Lauren Bonneau, Senior Editor, SAPinsider Finance in today’s economy should not be reporting on data that is irrelevant, but rather it should act as a steward for the organization — steering from the front of the boat — predicting the future and […]
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Data Can’t Wait: Start Planning TodayOct 3, 2019  —  

Since the inception of SAP S/4HANA, one of the main risks that often derails the implementation journey centers around preparing, cleansing, converting, and managing the data. This article presents leading practices that SAP customers can leverage during their SAP S/4HANA implementations to significantly reduce program risks associated with the data conversion process. The advice provided includes focusing on pre-planning activities well in advance of the initial data conversion, ensuring that data quality, management, and governance foundations are established early and that initiatives are continuously ongoing, and leveraging the data conversion phase to address other key requirements such as jumpstarting self-service analytics.

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The Road to SAP S/4HANA from ECC6Apr 1, 2018  —  Sponsor: SAP SAP S/4HANA provides the opportunity for IT to lead digital transformation efforts. With SAP S/4HANA, IT can not only improve its own operations, but also deploy technology innovation to bring transformation and productivity gains to the business. Not sure how to get there? Join us to learn more about the path to SAP […]
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SAP S/4HANA Finance: What’s in a Name?Dec 28, 2017  —  SAP S/4HANA Finance has received much attention since it was announced at SapphireNOW in 2014 under the name SAP Simple Finance. In 2015, SAP Simple Finance was renamed to SAP S/4HANA Finance. This article defines the scope of the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution, as well as how the innovations built on SAP HANA fit into […]
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SAP S/4HANA Finance: What’s in a Name?Dec 28, 2017  —  Finance is currently at the forefront of technology innovations within SAP. By being the first line of business to re-architect the core finance and controlling capabilities to leverage the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA, finance professionals can increase their organizations’ efficiency through automation, thereby freeing up their bandwidth to leverage dynamic planning and modeling to provide […]
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