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Real-Time Analytics
Tom Rabbitt, Senior Director, SAP America
February 4, 2015
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Current Reality: Bound by Historical Limitations
Sales
Reporting
Product
Profitability
Management
Reporting
YTD
Net Income =
(Revenues-
Expenses)
CORP
EME
A
U.S.
Annual
Budget
Financial
Consolidation
s
Expense
Planning
CAPEX
PlanningRevenue
Forecasting
Introducing SAP Cloud For Planning (C4P)
Tom Rabbitt
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Our Vision For Real-Time Performance Management
v
Consumer grade
user experience
Connect finance and lines-of-business
SAP EPM
In the cloudEmbedded ERP
and stand alone
High-performance,
real-time platform
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Announcing SAP Cloud for PlanningPlan Simpler.
• Future-oriented
• People-centric
• Analytics-embedded
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Future Direction
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Future-oriented
• Enjoy a new generation of planning in
the cloud with a modern look and feel
• Plan and simulate at any level of
detail, with any number of users, at
any time
• Trust your application will perform
when and how you expect
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People-centric
• Simply create and modify planning
models on the fly
• Take action anytime, anywhere on the
desktop or on the go
• Align plans across Finance and
business units with direct integration
into SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation
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Analytics-embedded
• Analyze and plan in the same app
• Personalize your KPIs and dashboard
• Collaborate in-context of your plan
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This is John Smiths personal home dashboard. Each KPI,
from Geo-Maps to Gauges are simply to create and pin to a
dashboard
KPI’s are dynamic…you can move into more
detail or add more data with filtering
You can reset KPI views after drill through on data
Can also see more detail by “mouse
over” functionality
Within his dashboard John smith had pinned a task…he can go to the event manager to view a range of workflow,
events, and tasks
Within his dashboard John smith can see a calendar view of events and
tasks
John can view what event this task is assigned to. Within event manager, John can also assign reminders, responsibility
and alerts
By clicking on an event John can also view a monthly/weekly/yearly
timeline
John can see that Q2 is falling below forecast. He decides to go into a
regional report to view actuals to forecast
Select his report
In this report view John can also change which perspectives he is viewing and how data is filtered
John decides to add some additional visualization to his report view by selecting specific cells of data and
then the visualization button
John selects a variance chart and automatically he can view actual to
forecast variance across different regions
John sees North America has Q2 issues. He starts a discussion with the director of
sales.
Because of the “in context” design the report that John was viewing is attached
to the discussion.
Comments are added…John logs out
Director of Sales Bill logs in
Bill sees discussion invitation - Note that bill has a different dashboard
view within different charting …
Bill sees Johns comments
Bill, as the Director of Sales understands the issues. H has a serious issue with suppliers in
Canada. He goes to view a separate report he has on supplier
performance
Select Supplier Performance report view. John created this
model and report himself within data coming directly
from stores
John has setup KPI alerts to ensure quick visualization
of performance
By using additional visualization John can
quickly see the requests and delivered status of his poor performing supplier
John re-opens the discussion from John and
provides feedback
John re-opens the discussion from John and provides
feedback…he is addressing the problem but it will take another quarter to get it fixed. He wants
to reduce his Q3 forecast
John see Bills comments and proceed to create a private
version of the forecast which he can adjust and send for approval
John see Bills comments and proceed to create a private
version of the forecast which he can adjust and send for approval
John has a report view showing regional breakdown of revenue
John filters the report view to see only Canada
John selects the version manager and creates a copy of the forecast
New private version
John makes adjustment to Q3 forecast for Canada.
John opens discussion with Lisa (Director of Planning).
He attaches the forecast change and says he will wait for her approval before re-forecast
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