The rate of change and the volatility has increased tremendously over the past decade. Finance plays an ever increasingly important role in guiding companies through this 'new normal'. But at the same time Finance struggles to satisfy all the critical demands amidst a growing volume of data. Business Analytics plays a critical role in helping organizations anticipate and shape business outcomes. Find out about IBM's innovative solutions for Finance and learn how leading organizations can leverage technology and processes to gain a competitive advantage.

1. Innovative Solutions
for Finance
Christoph Papenfuss
Global Best Practices Leader
IBM Business Analytics

2. Agenda
Summary
World 2.0
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Business Analytics for the
Finance Department

3. Businesses are challenged by rapid
change
Supplier lead time is 62% faster
than just two years ago
Years to reach Radio TV Internet Facebook
50M users: 38 years 13 years 4 years 2 years

4. Some companies react
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5. Knowledge is powerful!
Data is the new oil!

6. Better: Anticipate & shape outcomes

7. Easier said than done

8. 152 Mio km
161 Exabytes in 2006

10. Do we use the right tools?
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Business Analytics for the
Finance Department

12. Better
outcomes
Smarter
decisions
Actionable
insights
Relevant
information

13. Analytics correlates to performance
3x 5.4x
Organizations that lead in Top Performers are more
analytics outperform those likely to use an analytic
who are just beginning to approach over intuition*
adopt analytics
*within business processes
Source: Analytics: The New Path to Value, a joint MIT Sloan Management Review and IBM Institute of Business Value study. Copyright © Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010.

14. Lessons from the Leaders – rely on Analytics
Source: IBM Institute for Business Value, 2010 IBM Global CFO Study (Adapted)

15. The IBM Cognos Platform

16. A day in the life of Future Chips
Reporting & Analysis
Planning & Forecasting COGNOS
Mobile working

17. G/L
PSFT
SAP
CRM DW

18. Freedom to
Think

20. I BUDGETS & FORECASTS?
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21. Interactive
Scenario
Planning

24. Active Reports
Anywhere

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1 2 3 Finish
Business Analytics for the
Finance Department

26. Addressing critical processes in finance
Planning, Analysis & Forecasting
Profitability Modeling &
Optimization
Close, Consolidation, &
Reporting
Performance Reporting, &
Scorecarding
Governance, Risk &
Compliance

27. Valuable resources for you
• www.ibm.com/cognos
• www.ibm.com/software/analytics
• Best practices, white papers, insights
• Events, demos, ideas

28. Best Practice Workshops
• Business Simulation
• Rolling Forecasts
• Dashboards
• Working Capital Mgmt
• Scenario Planning
• Champions Workshop
• Etc...

29. Better business decisions
• Take advantage of this Finance Forum
• Talk to our local team and business partners
• Evaluate your processes and solutions

30. Let‘s connect!
Christoph Papenfuss
Christoph.papenfuss@de.ibm.com
Blog: www.performanceideas.wordpress.com
Twitter: @cpapenfuss