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Leveraging Digitalization Tools to Achieve Efficiency in Financial ConsolidationFeb 29, 2024 — SAP users know that when it comes to financial planning and analysis (FP&A), precision, accuracy and speed are crucial for a company’s overall financial health. Many will find that some of their processes may not be fast or precise enough to match the demands of a company’s needs and the digital transformation. Therefore, businesses embark […]
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Capitalizing on Automation Advancements with Ameri100Feb 5, 2024 — More and more organizations are looking for smarter solutions for digital transformations as the 2027 end of maintenance deadline for legacy SAP systems, such as ECC, draws nearer. Companies need to focus on the requirements that must be met ahead of the move to SAP S/4HANA. These businesses generally do not have the resources on staff that they need to execute this transition while also ensuring that they can leverage all the benefits of the new landscape.
SAPinsider sat down with Brandon Gordon, Executive Vice President of Global Business Development at Ameri100. He discussed how Ameri100 is a uniquely agile system integrator, able to shift quickly to meet customer needs and demands. He also shared recent examples of how the organization was able to help its customers to increase scalability to meet business demands for group reporting and financial consolidations.
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Providing SaaS Solutions for Analytics and FP&AJul 20, 2023 — In today’s business climate, finance leaders are being asked to accomplish more and more, often with the same budgets as in years past. They are frequently tasked to participate more in strategic discussions, which requires crucial information that they often lack.
Organizations are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve insights. The SAPinsider finance research report found that 39% of respondents are increasing real-time visibility into finance and operations. This makes it the action most commonly taken by finance professionals to address their strategic priorities.
In this article, we will explore how third-party solutions like SimpleFi deliver FP&A, consolidation, and process optimization for businesses. We will also discuss the importance of considering deployment options before settling on a solution, as well as the market demand for FP&A and consolidation improvements.
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Accelerate Your Financial Close to Support Strategic Decision MakingJul 6, 2020 — Establishing an efficient financial close is a challenge for many businesses due to the number of people and complexity of tasks involved, and yet it is key to a best-run finance organization. By understanding how financial transformation—including the use of automation to increase operational efficiency—can support finance teams in the close process and add more value to the business, finance teams can spend less time on mundane tasks and more time engaging in value-added activities. This article analyzes two workstreams that are essential to the financial close process, and how SAP solutions complemented by BlackLine applications can support these workstreams and improve the close process.
After reading this article you will be able to:
--Understand the stages of the financial close, which range from transactions to analytics;
--Explain how financial accounting, controlling, and planning work together to enable insight into the financial status of a company;
--Define the solutions that are available to support both the R2R and the FP&A workstreams; and
--Identify how BlackLine applications complement the solutions provided by SAP and how they fit into the overall financial close process.
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A Financial Dashboard Rollout: Considerations and Lessons LearnedJun 17, 2014 — Learn how a large enterprise benefited from the rollout of a customized mobile financial dashboard integrated with Oracle’s Hyperion Financial Management System (HFM), SAP Business Warehouse, and SAP BusinessObjects dashboards and mobility. Key Concept A financial dashboard displays an enterprise’s most summarized financial data in the form of key performance indicators (KPIs) combined with visual […]
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How to Sort, Group, and Subtotal Data with the EPM 10.0 Add-InNov 21, 2013 — See all the options to sort, group, and subtotal your data with the SAP Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) add-in in one central document. Key Concept The SAP Enterprise Performance Management 10.0 Add-In interface includes the report editor sorting feature for sorting data based on transaction data values and the axis member sorting and grouping feature, […]
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Introducing BW 7.3’s New InfoProvidersOct 23, 2013 — Ned Falk introduces the new InfoProviders in SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3. Some only work with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator and HANA, and some with BW running on any approved databases such as Oracle or SQL Server. Knowing the purpose and benefits of each InfoProvider type ensures you pick the correct one when modeling your BW […]
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Set Up a Dynamic Rolling Forecast Input Form in the EPM Add-InSep 18, 2013 — Learn how to create a fully dynamic input form in the SAP Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) add-in. The benefit to a company is that it offers a low cost-of-maintenance feature that can generate monthly forecast data. See how to create this form from start to finish. Discover how to use Excel functions for automatically determining […]
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A Roadmap to Effective Business Process ManagementJul 13, 2010 — ManagerThis guide to an enterprise-wide business process management (BPM) strategy focuses on the features in SAP Solution Manager that you can use for the four phases of BPM. It also highlights the use of solution maps and third-party products (such as ARIS, HP Quality Center, and HP QuickTest Professional) that have standard integration adapters for […]
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Bring Work in Process to Actual Costing Using the Material LedgerOct 23, 2009 — Discover a development in work in process (WIP) functionality called WIP revaluation. See how you can use this functionality to fully absorb material and activity type variances in actual costing. Key Concept SAP developed work in process (WIP) revaluation functionality in 2003 to address Brazilian legislation related to actual costing. It was not initially released […]
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