SAP Simple Finance and S/4 HANA are the solutions which will push ERP into a new generation of “digital business”. The accelerator is a service which is part of the Digital CFO campaign to demonstrate what “digital” means for the CFO.

1. SAP
Simple Finance
A BearingPoint Accelerator
SAP Simple Finance and S/4 HANA are the solutions
which will push ERP into a new generation of “digital
business”. The accelerator is a service which is part of
the Digital CFO campaign to demonstrate what
“digital” means for the CFO.
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2. Contents
Market Drivers
Our Approach
Client Benefits
Contact
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3. Market Drivers
• Digital disruption will significantly impact business, business models and competition, and will trigger
paradigm shifts in ERP architectures towards
• Flexibility and performance
• Open standards
• Real-time reaction capabilities and in-memory
• Simplification
• Social, mobile, analytics and cloud will be key areas which continue to determine ERP development
• Business will drive out complexity and monolithic structures in favor of more agile, componentize structures
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4. Market Drivers
CFOs share in digital raised 50% between 2012 – 2014. But CFOs are only at the beginning of truly
realizing value from “digital”
Key stakeholders 2012-2014, and challenges to meet going forward
Digital topics will drive the evolution of the entire company –
75 percent of CFOs stated that digitalization has a high or medium impact on their finance functions.1
CIO
CMO*
CEO
CFO
CDO**
60% 65% 70%
2012 2013 2014
60% 55% 60%
45% 55% 60%
30% 35% 45%
0% 25% 30%
1
BE CFO survey 2014
* Chief Marketing Officer
** Chief Digital Officer
Key stakeholders’share in digital so far… …and common hurdles to master in the next 3-5 years
70-80%
Lack of full
comprehension
of the value of digital
50-60%
Lack of
accountability
measures
30-40%
Hard to find
digital talent
20-25%
Lack of quality data
for decision making
15-20%
Organization not
designed for digital
15-20%
Business processes
too inflexible
10-15%
Inability to adopt
an experimental
mindset
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5. Our Approach
Digital dramatically alters business and business models
in most industries
Our Approach: change the way how CFOs will operate - faster - forward looking - more collaborative!
Operating Model
• Digitalization enables finance teams to work
efficiently and to remain in close contact with
the business, regardless of physical location
• Digitalization facilitates a centralized
operating model with the aim to increase
operational efficiency
• New additional responsibilities emerge which
require new skills
IT Architecture & Technology
• CFO as the central aggregator of financial and
business insight through predictive analysis
• Less manual intervention needed to generate
and process decision making
Processes
• Digitalization will affect the overall processes
in the CFO domain
• Replacement of old functional silos
• Collaboration (social), mobile, analytical and
cloud technologies offer options to run the
processes in the CFO space more efficiently
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6. Our Approach
SAP Simple Finance – S/4 HANA
• Enablement and cooperation with SAP
• Engaging existing and new clients in strategic architecture conversations
• Providing options for viable migration strategies for customers with ECC 6.0 legacy systems
• Leveraging existing analyst relations with Gartner opinion leader Nigel Rayner
• Include SAP Simple Finance as a component of the “Digital CFO thought leadership set”, e.g. as part of the BearingPoint
Institute # 7 “Digital” issue with an article on “digital” CFO changes caused by digital
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7. Client Benefits
SAP Simple Finance - Transforming Finance with Instant Insight
“Instant insight-to-action based on real-time information”
>Single Source of Truth
Real-Time Processes
Dynamic Planning and Analysis
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8. Contact
Franz Hiller
Partner
BearingPoint Germany
franz.hiller@bearingpoint.com
Elisabeth Denner
Partner
BearingPoint France
elisabeth.denner@bearingpoint.com
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Elena Litvinova
Partner
BearingPoint Russia
elena.litvinova@bearingpoint.com
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