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16–18 June • Nice, France

www.financials2015.com/Nice

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The premier event for SAP® financial accounting, control, planning, consolidation, closings, and reporting

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While there remains no doubt about the desire by Boards of Directors, CEOs, and other senior business leaders for the CFO and their supporting finance departments to evolve into more strategic business partners, the certainty that this will occur is in jeopardy. What was the major topic at last year’s event is now an expectation of the finance profession to have a thorough understanding of business operations, while working alongside their line-of-business peers to focus resources and, ultimately, define their company’s strategy to meet targets for profitable growth. While it’s a safe bet that tomorrow’s finance leaders will still be applying the familiar skill sets of today in responding to the needs for funding capital at optimal cost, managing an increasing burden of compliance requirements, and providing ever more

transparent and real-time reporting and forward-looking disclosure, their ability to truly become a leading enabler of strategic direction and profitable growth, so often discussed today, remains an open question.

At Financials 2015 and GRC 2015, we will support you in better understanding your options: while advances in technology are enabling Chief Financial Officers to provide significantly more financial data and information much faster to other line-of-business decision makers, major gaps remain when it comes to how to effectively translate data into analysis that those outside of the finance function can understand and use in a meaningful way. Innovate your finance processes and supporting systems without disrupting your core duties!

This event is your opportunity to network with peers who face the same challenges you are facing and to directly access SAP solutions experts to help you understand how you can meet your specific business goals. Learn from other customers that went that path you’re aiming for. I hope that you will join us, your industry peers, and the SAP ecosystem in Nice, France to engage in fruitful discussions and ensure that you are enabled for success.

Sincerely,

Thack BrownSenior Vice President, General Manager and Global Head Line of Business Finance SAP

SchedulePre-Conference

Workshops Main ConferenceMonday, 15 June

9.00 Registration Opens

10.00 Pre-Conference Workshops

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday, 16 June 8.00 Registration & Morning Coffee

9.00 Keynote Address

10.45 Refreshment Break

11.30 Breakout Sessions & GRC Spotlight Session

12.45 Lunch

14.00 Breakout Sessions & BI Spotlight Session


15.45 Breakout Sessions & Financials Spotlight Session


17.15 Breakout Sessions

18.30 Reception

18.45 Ask the Experts

Wednesday, 17 June 8.00 Registration & Morning Coffee




11.45 Lunch




15.45 Exhibitor Meet and Greet

16.00 Ask the Experts


Thursday, 18 June 8.00 Registration & Morning Coffee




11.45 Lunch






17.30 Conference Concludes


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Pre-Conference Workshops • Monday, 15 June

Conference, 16-18 June • More than 65 sessions spanning 10 tracks

Special three-hour Pre-Conference Workshops hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to fortify your understanding of key SAP concepts and technologies, explore new trends and strategies, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference. Advance sign-up is required.

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Track 1 Financial accounting Page 8

Track 2 Managerial accounting and controlling Page 10

Track 3 SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Page 11

Track 4 SAP finance applications powered by SAP HANA Page 13

Track 5 SAP product roadmaps and enhancements Page 15

Track 6 Financial reporting, analytics, and business intelligence Page 17

Track 7 Financial planning and performance management Page 19

Track 8 Financial closes and consolidations Page 21

Track 9 Cash, treasury, and receivables management Page 22

Track 10 Enterprise risk and compliance management Page 23


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Educational and Networking OpportunitiesPre-Conference WorkshopsSpecial Pre-Conference Workshops hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to fortify your understanding of key SAP concepts and technologies, explore new trends

and strategies, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference. Advance sign-up is required.

Ask the ExpertsPull up a chair in the Ask the Experts area of the Exhibition Hall and spend one-on-one time with the top experts. Learn from their realworld expertise and get specific insights on topics and

questions that matter to you most.

Evening ReceptionInteract with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. Build a lasting network of peers and meet with leading product and service vendors.

Panel DiscussionsThese sessions are informal, interactive get-togethers where SAP customers can ask panelists their most pressing questions. Each panel will be moderated by a subject-matter expert.

You do not need to sign up in advance to attend, and there is no formal agenda. Just come with your list of questions in hand.

Customer-led Case StudiesTake away best practises and methodologies taught by the companies that practise them. Learn from highly experienced SAP

customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics.

Exhibit Hall ReceptionsCompare and contrast market-leading solutions and see for yourself how SAP and third-party technologies fit into your IT infrastructure.

Distinguished FacultySpeakers at this conference are the world’s foremost authorities. Experienced practitioners, industry visionaries, leading-edge customers, and subject matter experts from SAP

will be on hand to provide the very best instruction.

5 Conferences – 1 LocationFinancials 2015 is co-located with BI 2015, HR 2015, GRC 2015, and HANA 2015. Registration at one event admits you to all five events at no

additional cost. It’s a perfect opportunity to educate your entire team.

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10.00 – 13.00

SAP Simple Finance 101: How to accelerate your financial and managerial accounting processes with SAP HANABirgit Starmanns and Pete Graham, SAP

Attend this session to learn how the latest breakthrough in in-memory technology, provided by SAP HANA, can be seamlessly integrated into your existing SAP ERP system architecture to allow you to maintain regulatory compliance, increase operational efficiency, and enable instant insight for better predictive analysis. During this session, you will:

y Learn what steps you can take to speed up and extend your current SAP ERP financial reporting, managerial accounting, and critical period-end close processes

y Discover how personalised insights can provide an instantaneous view of business KPIs, calculated instantaneously, while still retaining drill-down to granular detail

y Hear about the options available to deploy SAP HANA in a way that is non-disruptive to your existing environment, using examples including profitability analysis, material ledger, and general ledger processes

y Learn how utilising a central journal in SAP Simple Finance eliminates the need for summary tables and indices, allowing both transactions and analytics to be performed on the same data

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Special deep-dive sessions that enable you to: � Explore new trends and strategies

� Enhance your learning experience at the main conference

By registering for Pre-Conference Workshops, you can:

� Attend any sessions of interest to you � Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and

dedicated question-and-answer time � Gain online access to the session slides and take-homes � Participate in a networking lunch with other attendees

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Mastering report creation in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1Scott Cairncross and Kermit Bravo, TruQua Enterprises

There are three critical features most users want in a planning solution — usability, performance, and a spreadsheet-friendly interface. During this session, get practical guidance and techniques for incorporating these into your overall BPC reporting strategy. You will:

y Learn how to exploit Excel-based planning functionality in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation using the EPM add-in for Excel

y Walk through a proven methodology for creating, maintaining, and modifying dynamic reports and input forms

y Better understand the dynamic formatting templates that are pre-delivered with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and how you can customise them to fit the unique needs of your organisation

y See firsthand how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation differs in dashboarding capabilities from SAP BusinessObjects BI tools

y Get tips for utilizing reporting features in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, such as drag-and-drop and drill-through functionality

y Examine BPC business rules and logic used to support currency conversion (FX) and other custom formulas

y Evaluate case studies for a single versus separate reporting instances for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

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Integrating your SAP systems to optimise end-to-end financial processesNaeem Arif, Jaguar Land Rover

SAP sits at the centre of a comprehensive and integrated set of solutions for finance. Attend this intensive workshop as we map out this integrated landscape and step through the business processes it touches from the point of view of a financial control-ler. Attend and examine the system integration points between SD, MM, PLM, HR, and the FI and CO modules, and identify the key master data objects, configuration elements, and risk and control considerations necessary for successful module integra-tion and process optimisation. By participating, you learn:

y A deeper understanding of finance account assignment objects to enrich your postings at the point of entry

y How to map key business process flows, including purchase-to-pay and sales-to-cash

y Methods to manage SAP ERP HCM and payroll integration/configuration

y Approaches to automate credit control and collections

y Techniques to make optimum use of both GL accounts and the available account assignment objects to improve analysis

y Methods to make the right MM account determinations and select the right transaction and movement types

y How to avoid mispostings to a handful of GL revenue accounts by making the right SD account selections


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Jointly leverage SAP ERP and SAP enterprise performance management solutions to speed your close: Tasks and tools every finance team should knowElizabeth Milne, Kirk Anderson, Pete Graham, SAP and Stefan Karl, SAP SE

Is your financial close slower than it was five years ago? What if you need to reduce cycle times and close your books with fewer resources and higher quality? Attend this comprehensive session to learn what steps your organisation can take today to sig-nificantly improve the process. Delegates will:

y Learn the most common barriers to a fast financial close — such as data quality and collection errors, reconciliation problems, and poor performance from reporting applications — and strategies to overcome them

y Get tips for preparing a checklist for the financial close, which contains tasks, task owners, deadlines, and dependencies — and how to monitor it in real time

y Understand trends in accounting standards and managing disclosures, and how to prepare and cover for your company

y Find out how automation of closing tasks like currency translation, eliminations, and cash-flow calculations fosters speed and quality of the financial close

y Get an overview of what new SAP functionality is available to help you improve the process


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Achieving integrated planning with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 powered by SAP HANA Mark Hamlin, Macrospect

Attend this drill-down workshop and learn how to define and implement your roadmap to true integrated planning. This demo-based programme shows you how to build the business case for the adoption of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on SAP HANA and how to maximise the value of your investment. Be there and learn:

y The features and functionality of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, including the HTML5 Web interface

y The pros and cons of different reporting strategies, including reporting tools native to BPC, report customisation, pre-delivered dynamic report templates, the EPM Add-In for Excel, and case examples of single vs. separate reporting instances

y How to build a planning application based on real-world SAP Business Planning and Consolidationon SAP HANA integration scenarios used to accelerate planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities

y Scenario building techniques in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y How to configure and use BPC’s work status functionality to streamline the plan submission, review, and approval process

y How to assess your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for NetWeaver® options (standard and embedded versions), and how to define the best migration path for legacy systems

y Best practices to streamline implementation and optimise system performance



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Managing the migration to the SAP new general ledgerThomas Yoder, MI6 Solutions Group

The new SAP General Ledger is over 10 years old, and still over half of SAP customers worldwide remain on the classic version. This session explores in-depth what is involved in planning and executing a migration from classic general ledger and how to maxi-mise the strategic value of the project. Attend and examine the new functionality, compare possible migration scenarios, identify opportunities for significant process improvements, and address existing pain points. Learn how to:

y Assess and articulate the value of migrating to SAP General Ledger using several real-life examples as references

y Design an ideal end-state solution to meet internal and external reporting needs, provide more real-time data, reduce TCO and the time-to-close the period, and create a single source of the truth

y Use SAP General Ledger coding block best practices to maximise the flexibility of your design

y Establish project timelines, quantify the resources required, assess landscape options and SAP services, and manage existing data issues

y Determine how SAP HANA and SAP Simple Finance could affect your GL migration strategy or core SAP finance design

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Keynote Address

Keynote AddressDelivering business value through technology and innovationSteve Lucas, President, SAP Platform Solutions, SAP

In our consumer to business economy, uncovering business value through technology has become mission critical. With the explosion of transaction, conversation, and machine data, it is clear that data is one of the most valuable assets of any business. The challenge and opportunity is in embracing technology, uncovering the hidden value in the data, and creating a culture of innovation within your business.

Join Steve Lucas, President, SAP Platform Solutions, as he discusses the mega trends shaping business and technology today. Steve will share real-world stories on how companies are thriving in this hyper-accelerated world and demonstrate the ways in which SAP technology is bridging the gap between insight and action, enabling companies to innovate and reimagine their business like never before. Steve Lucas

Keynote PanelCloud: What, why, and howThis thought-provoking panel offers a no-nonsense discussion around the requirements and benefits of implementing a cloud-based solution. You will get the unique opportunity to hear from leading cloud experts as you get your most pressing questions answered. Attend for:

� Recommendations for determining whether and how to migrate mission-critical workloads to the cloud, including key evaluation criteria like workload characteristics and the level of managed services required

� Lessons from real-world use cases and success stories for insight into how leading customers are exploiting cloud capabilities to reduce costs, improve flexibility, and speed processing time

� An overview of the SAP cloud portfolio and how it supports the end-to-end cloud journey, including details on its recent investments and acquisitions

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Spotlight Sessions

Financials 2015 Spotlight PanelThe future of financeModerator: Sarit Shah, Deloitte

Panelists: Thomas Benthien, Unilever, and Frederic Moinier, Zurich Insurance Group

Ready or not, the time for finance transformation has arrived. Market complexity and volatility, ever-increasing cost and compliance pressures, and technology innovations like Big Data, the cloud, and mobile are fundamentally and forever changing the way the world works -- and finance organisations sit squarely at the centre of the storm. Join us at at this panel and see how senior-level financial transformation executives from some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies are:

� Using one common view of all information across finance to ensure enterprise-wide consistency

� Combining prediction, simulation, and analysis to identify the best strategic business options

� Giving users instant, personalised insight to encourage timelier, more relevant financial decisions Driving massive IT simplification with an architecture that removes replications and aggregates

Financials 2015 Spotlight SessionRise of the Strategic CFO Thack Brown, Senior Vice President, General Manager and Global Head Line Business Finance, SAP Americas

Ivo Bauermann, Global Vice President and General Manager, EPM & ERP Financials, SAP

Finance teams are expected to play a far more strategic role in supporting the business at the same time that technology and globalisation are providing opportunities for, and adding layers of complexity to, the corporate finance function. As a result, CFOs are looking for simpler tools to power the finance function and other lines of business.

In this special spotlight session, Thack Brown, SAP’s Senior Vice President, General Manager and Global Head Line of Business Finance and Ivo Bauermann, Global Vice President and General Manager EPM & ERP Financials, will share SAP’s vision of the modern finance department. Together, they’ll map the routes between SAP S/4HANA, SAP Simple Finance, and SAP Cloud for Planning, and help you chart your finance transformation journey.

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Advanced tips and tricks for FI and SD integration and reconciliationRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareThis session provides practical recommen-dations to improve financial accounting and sales and distribution (FI-SD) integration. Attend and get step-by-step configuration and testing guidance, including:

y A walk through of the impacts that key SD documents – including contracts, sales orders, deliveries, and invoices – have on FI

y How to identify and avoid common mistakes in the creation of billing documents that can compromise revenue stream integrity

y How to reconcile FI-SD discrepancies

Take home lists of key configuration points and tables for the FI-SD interface that are critical to the smooth transfer of data from SD to FI.

A pre-implementation guide to SAP General Ledger migrationThomas Yoder, MI6 Solutions GroupPerforming an SAP General Ledger migration is much more than just a technical exercise. It includes running three projects in parallel. Attend this session to delve into:

y The three different components of the migration, which include a technical migration of data from old to new tables, the implementation of the SAP General Ledger, and finance accounting and controlling improvements in order to leverage new functionality

y What steps you need to take to properly identify issues and risk areas and how to plan the design and implementation around these issues

y The implementation timelines that need to be followed when migrating to the SAP General Ledger

Strategies and lessons for automating and optimising accounts payableBrian Shannon, DolphinAttend this session and learn how to stream-line your accounts payable processes and more efficiently receive, enter, and track vendor invoices. You will:

y Learn how to utilise SAP Business Workflow and SAP NetWeaver certified add-ons for complete business visibility, sustainability, and true easy-to-use mobility features to comprise a comprehensive, optimised accounts payable solution

y Find out how to help your users adjust to changes, such as accepting and embracing “touchless” processing; adopting new, sophisticated workflow processes; and enabling mobile capabili-ties to eliminate process bottlenecks

y Get tips and advice for tackling the challenges associated with testing, training, and change management

Evaluating intercompany and intracompany process options in SAP General LedgerRobert Kremlacsek, PwCExamine the intricacies and business requirements associated with recording inter-company and intracompany transactions in the SAP General Ledger. Through lecture and demo, this session arms you with:

y A guide to the settings in SAP General Ledger that enable intercompany and intracompany transaction processing — including options available with SAP enhancement package 6

y Lessons to process intercompany transactions in your financial and managerial accounting applications

y Master data configuration techniques for more accurate management reports

y Advice to configure and process intercompany transactions within your purchasing and sales and distribution processes

What every finance team needs to know about FI and MM integrationRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareEmpower your FI team and take control of the critical configuration and integration points between FI and MM to ensure clean postings in SAP General Ledger accounting (FI-GL). Examine the fields that drive the FI postings made by MM transactions and learn about the key tables involved in this configuration. Attend this session and:

y Find out why table T030 is critical to the smooth integration of MM and FI

y Delve into the three key sources of material movement postings that affect FI-GL: deliveries, goods receipts, and plant material movements

y Examine why FI and MM activities get out of sync and learn how to get them back on track

Take home a chart of all inputs that impact MM postings and a step-by-step guide for activating goods receipt/invoice receipt (GR/IR) account user exits.

Case study

Dong Energy’s approach to the creation of complex invoice and posting interfacesSøren Christensen, Dong EnergyAttend this session and examine how Dong Energy aligned different source systems and requirements to achieve improved transpar-ency, efficiency, and flexibility in its invoice and posting interfaces to standard SAP Invoice Management. Be there and learn how Dong:

y Approached the development of a generic interface from five different trading systems into SAP

y Exploited SAP standard functionality to create invoices, purchase orders, and financial postings/accruals

y Managed status codes to improve monitoring

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Deciphering the CO settlement processRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareCO settlement is a process used by many modules within SAP to effectively move costs from one cost object to another and eventu-ally to the SAP General Ledger, which can often be a complex process. Break it down and learn:

y About the related items such as secondary cost elements, cost objects, and SAP General Ledger, which make settlement work

y Tips for performing a basic settlement configuration and understand what supporting configuration is required to make settlement work

y How a basic cost object can be settled to another cost object

Tips and techniques for identifying and analysing CO dataRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareThis session provides critical insight to help you identify and interpret key SAP controlling (CO) master data and transaction data tables. Take home the knowledge to:

y Link data behind the scenes in the SAP database to data that your end users can display

y Write data specifications for custom report development using report writer, ABAP™, or SAP BW

y Troubleshoot complex CO processes by analysing raw data using SE16 and SE17

y Use a CO object number to trace data

Integrated planning with CO-PA: A step-by-step approachRogerio de Mattos Faleiros, Franke Kitchen Systems UKThis session provides a step-by-step approach to CO-PA integrated planning that shows you how to overcome the challenges associated with integrating CO-PA, PP, and cost centre planning. By attending, you will learn how to:

y Integrate CO-PA and Logistical Informa-tion System (LIS) structures

y Transfer from LIS structures to PP Planning

y Calculate activity rates and standard cost

y Update CO-PA with the new costing

How to accurately perform variance analysis in SAP ERP FinancialsAshish Katyayan, DeloitteThis session guides you through the integrated planning and automatic variance analysis functionality in SAP, providing finance teams with an effective tool to use during their period end closings. This session equips you with:

y Detailed insights into leveraging integrated planning in SAP ERP, including CO-PA, HR, cost centre accounting, product costing, and production planning

y Practical advice to define allocations so that a meaningful comparison can be carried out with actuals

y Step-by-step advice for designing variance analysis to ease month-end reporting

y Instruction for creating mid-month profit forecasts

Effectively report operating expenses with standard SAP ERP Financials functionalityRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareDo you fully understand the best ways to use core SAP ERP Financials functionality to report operational expenses in the P&L statement? Learn how using the functional area and the cost-of-sales accounting functionality in SAP enables you to categorise expenses in the P&L statement. This session walks through detailed steps to help you optimally configure each functional area for your needs. You will:

y Learn how to record expenses against actual sales at a granular level

y Understand the concept of cost-of-sales accounting versus periodic accounting

y Find out how to activate the cost-of-sales ledger

y Understand the options for configuring Functional area assignment to transactions

y Learn best practices for selecting Functional area

View a demo showing how to create Functional areas that align with business functions.

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Using functional areas to effectively report operating expenses with SAP GLRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareDo you fully understand the best ways to use core SAP ERP Financials functionality to report operational expenses in the P&L statement? Learn how using the functional area and the cost-of-sales accounting functionality in SAP enables you to categorise expenses in the P&L statement. This session walks through detailed steps to help you optimally configure each functional area for your needs. You will:







Manufacturing accounting in SAP: Facilitating decision making from the shop floor to the board roomNaeem Arif, Jaguar Land RoverThis session illustrates how to optimise product costing, production execution, and inventory management in SAP. Attend and learn how to construct a seamless solution that supports a continuous product produc-tion process, including:

y Capturing the cost of manufacturing individual products and sub-assemblies

y Matching costs to the activities that generate them

y Providing a flexible cost recovery mechanism without losing power

y Conducting detailed variance analysis to support decision making

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Lessons learned from Roche’s CO-PA reporting projectPhilipp Husi, RocheThis session illustrates how to deal with special reporting demands that go beyond routine profitability analysis (CO-PA) requests. See how Roche addressed that challenge and learn how the findings from their project can be applied to a variety of CO-PA reporting needs (e.g. sales, production, marketing costs, etc.) Attend and:

y Learn how to eliminate the foreign exchange rate impact of direct sales from the company’s sales hub to third-party countries

y See how to increase cost transparency by distinguishing between cost types

y Gain a holistic understanding of the modules "feeding" CO-PA and its connected reporting systems

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How Sonae Indústria revamped its controlling and corporate management reporting processes using a shared service centre modelSérgio Mota, Sonae IndústriaThis session examines Sonae Indústria’s shift to a centralised controlling model and how it optimised its SAP controlling definitions to achieve full control of its master data and compliance with corporate rules. Attend to learn firsthand how the company:

y Optimised and defined month-end cycles and achieved accurate product cost comparison across geographies

y Mapped its SAP data structures to the corporate management controlling reporting tool

y Defined its product costing model using different valuations for different reporting purposes -- including IFRS (stock valuation), net realisable value, invoice-based and sales order profitability analysis — and how it’s able to block non-profitable orders based on contribution margin, EBIT, or EBITDA criteria

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2015 guide to the newest capabilities of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1Pras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this session and learn how to fully exploit the features and functionality avail-able in the latest release (10.1) of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, versions for SAP NetWeaver and the Microsoft platform. By attending, you learn how to:

y Build a more unified planning model based on SAP BW metadata for enterprise-wide planning and consolida-tion scenarios

y Use new functionality to support integrated business planning, dynamic modelling, and simulation

y Deploy reports and analyses to business users with the new Web and Mobile user interface

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Planning, budgeting, and forecasting process improvements at Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science, Research and EconomyPhilipp Otto, Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science, Research and EconomyThis session examines how Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science and Research unified budgetary planning, control-ling, and forecasting by migrating to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 using home-grown spreadsheets, SAP BusinessObjects™ Web Intelligence® 4.0, and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. Attend this session and:

y See how the Ministry improved its data quality, slimmed down processes, and pushed transparency to maximum levels by implementing SAP standard tools

y Understand how compliance standards — for example, planning budgets up to four years in advance — drove the Ministry’s new planning initiative

y Learn why the Ministry chose to move from SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation 7.5 to version 10.0 and how it handled key migration hurdles

Take home sample budget spreadsheets used by the Ministry that you can reference while building or optimising your own.

Using driver-based performance management as the cornerstone of your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 budgeting and forecasting projectHolger Lämmel, EY NorwayAre you struggling with your existing EPM solution to deliver business value and accuracy, improve flexibility, and increase buy-in from non-financial budget owners? Attend this presentation and learn how driver-based performance management can help you overcome these challenges, including how to:

y Compare driver-based performance management against concepts like incremental increase, zero-based budgeting, and rolling forecast

y Operationalise your budgeting and forecasting, and link it to strategic planning

y Better manage volatility with integrated risk management

y Implement driver-based performance management with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

Comparing the standard and embedded versions of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1: Key factors to considerMark Hamlin, MacrospectAttend this session and walk through the two latest options for running SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, version for SAP NetWeaver. This session will provide:

y Key steps you’ll need to take to prepare a business case for an integrated approach to planning and consolidations

y A complete review of the technical and functional aspects of the embedded and standard releases of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1

y Critical advice for combining the embedded and standard releases of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 to improve financial reporting capabilities

y Insight into the migration paths that are available for your legacy planning and consolidation systems

Introducing SAP Cloud for PlanningDamien Fribourg, SAPSAP Cloud for Planning is an exciting new public cloud solution, built on the SAP HANA Cloud platform, designed around user experi-ence to simplify planning processes with embedded analytics and collaboration. Attend this session to:

y Get tips to leverage SAP Cloud for Planning to simplify financial planning and analysis and eliminate complexities around your planning processes

y Understand what capabilities exist to analyse, plan, collaborate, and consume information through both the web and on mobile devices

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Leverage SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver and SAP Simple Finance to integrate your business plans in a real-time mannerPras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this session to learn how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, is deeply integrated with SAP ERP and SAP Simple Finance through SAP Integrated Business Planning for finance content. During this session:

y Gain insight into how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 provides real-time access to data and master data, while providing access to make instant decisions

y Examine SAP Business Planning and Consolidation as the focal point of integration across various SAP solutions including SAP Cloud for Planning

Case study

How Gazprom Neft leverages SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 standard functionality to align consolidated and management reportingAndrey Shvetsov and Olga Makretskaya, Gazprom NeftAttend this session and see how one of Russia’s largest oil and gas producers aligned consolidated and management reporting using a vertically integrated financial consoli-dation and management reporting solution based on SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation 10.0 standard functionality. Delegates will learn how Gazprom Neft:

y Simplified and accelerated the consolida-tion process through unification, automation, and the elimination of unnecessary consolidation sub-steps

y Uses an extended data model to achieve a comprehensive and consistent data set with drill-down detail

y Implemented SAP Business Planning and Consolidation to eliminate the need for intermediate data transformations

y Eliminated data inconsistency by integrating its BPC solution with transac-tional systems (SAP and non-SAP), and automating its data collection process

Driving more accurate planning and performance management: Requirements and options for enabling an integrated BPC and BI landscapeAndrew Joo, IBMThis session offers expert guidance on whether and how to integrate SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with SAP Busines-sObjects BI solutions and SAP HANA to create a more unified and comprehensive view of your organisation’s strategic, financial, and operational information. During this session:

y Step through real-world integration scenarios for insight into how leading organisations have enabled multi-dimensional profit and loss statements, profitability- and driver-based reporting capabilities, and “what-if” analysis

y Explore options and requirements for harnessing the power of big data through an integrated SAP HANA and EPM model, and how this accelerates planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities

y Discover how to analyse actual, budget, and forecast data at all levels of granularity by leveraging SAP Business Planning and Consolidation in conjunc-tion with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Optimising the functionality and usability of your BPC-based consolidation solution: Making the right design decisionsKermit Bravo, TruQua EnterprisesThis session demystifies some of the complex configuration issues associated with BPC-based consolidation projects and shows you how to make the key design decisions needed to maximise user acceptance and adoption of your solution. This session helps you:

y Understand the critical relationships between various BPC settings and your key business requirements

y Manage dimensions, define members, assign properties, and handle naming conventions

y Properly use time-dependent hierarchies, dual flows, intercompany matching, automated cash flow generation, multiple group currencies, and model types

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How Airbus leverages a hybrid SAP HANA Live / SAP BW on SAP HANA platform for faster, simpler integrated financial reporting and planningFrank M. Elias, Airbus GroupLearn how Airbus turned an obsolescence challenge into a competitive advantage by implementing a hybrid SAP HANA solution. Examine the company’s successful migration from multiple platforms to a single SAP HANA platform, including:

y Motivation, business case, and key factors contributing to project success

y Considerations that lead to a hybrid solution architecture, balancing real-time SAP HANA Live reporting and SAP BW on SAP HANA with SLT real-time replication, nearline storage and BPC planning

y Steps taken to overcome challenges associated with platform setup, working with design teams and project execution

y Key benefits realised and future plans based on learnings to date

Building a business case for SAP HANA: How do I get started?Matthias Haendly, SAP SEIf you are considering an SAP HANA deploy-ment, this session is for you. Examine a variety of real-world use case examples to learn the business value that customers are achieving with SAP HANA. Attend to gain the tools to build a compelling business case for SAP HANA, including how to:

y Understand the possibilities for transforming work and everyday life with in-memory computing technology

y Quantify the value to business using key value metrics

y Simplify your IT landscape

y Determine which SAP HANA deployment options – on premise, in cloud, or hybrid – will deliver the most value to your organisation

A step-by-step approach for adopting SAP Simple FinanceBirgit Starmanns, SAPWalk through the journey of planning your move to SAP Simple Finance in five steps – exploring the solution, identifying your business case, trying the solution without risk, deploying either on-premise or in the cloud, and driving business value with SAP Simple Finance. During this session:

y Hear about the built-in consistency, which ensures a single, real-time view of financial and operational information across transactional, analytics, and planning processes

y Understand what steps need to be taken to enable instant insight with personalised views across continuous, networked financial processes

y Discover how predictive analytics allows you to determine the financial impact of business options through real-time planning, prediction, simulation, and analysis

How to take advantage of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud for SAP Simple FinanceBettina Zedlitz, SAPThis session illustrates how to use SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud for Simple Finance to speed the time-to-value of your in-memory investment. Attend and learn how to take advantage of managed service offerings for your business needs, including how to:

y Exploit the economies of scale offered by managed cloud services

y License software capabilities, infrastruc-ture and application management on a subscription basis

y Learn the most valuable entry scenarios for the managed cloud offering

y Leverage additional services for applica-tion management for operations

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How Airbus moved from multiple local reporting applications to an integrated financial reporting and planning platform based on SAP HANABéatrice Lapeyrade and Frank M. Elias, Airbus GroupStep through the key decisions that led Airbus to the successful consolidation of 140+ local and corporate finance reporting applica-tions and 30 solutions into a single, integrated platform. This session illustrates how Airbus:

y Built the business case for SAP HANA-based integration

y Approached the design and set up of the IFRP platform based on SAP in-memory technology

y Managed complex migrations involving stakeholders from controlling, accounting, treasury, and costing

y Properly decommissioned current finance reporting platforms

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Early-stage results from Cargill’s large-scale finance transformation projectLynn Halterman, CargillCargill, one of the world’s largest privately held companies with over $140 billion in revenue, is in the early stages of a trans-formation journey to integrated ERP using SAP. Attend this session to learn about the business drivers, process changes, and technological considerations associated with its wide-ranging finance transformation journey, including:

y A status check on the company’s move to shared services and reorganisation emphasising financial analytics

y Progress in its drive to enable new finance capabilities and organisational structures using SAP solutions for enterprise performance management (EPM) powered by SAP HANA

y Detailed feedback to date from its implementation of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP Financial Consolidation, and SAP Simple Finance

SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA — An update on SAP’s next-generation accounting solutionStefan Karl, SAP SEJoin this session for an overview and demo of the concepts, functionality, and user experi-ence of the newest release of SAP’s new accounting solution. Attend to learn about:

y A single source of truth for financial and management accounting

y A line-item-based approach for unlimited flexibility in processing and reporting

y Consumer-grade UIs for business transactions and real-time analytic insight

y Accelerated period-end close and intra-month soft close

y Easy migration from SAP ERP 6.0 to the new accounting solution

y Benefits achieved and lessons learned from first customer projects

SAP’s roadmap for finance: Discover the future of finance with SAP Simple FinanceMartin Naraschewski, SAP SETake a guided tour of SAP Simple Finance, and learn how technology innovations support finance transformation and enable finance to become a more strategic partner to the business. During this session:

y Find out how finance can engage with the business to drive value leveraging instant prediction, analysis, and planning across financial and operational processes

y Hear how the latest technology can help to extend finance processes across business networks for optimal collabora-tion with customers, suppliers, banks, and government authorities

y See firsthand current and upcoming innovations that leverage in-memory computing for built-in data consistency, instant insight, and predictive analysis

y Hear how your organisation can choose from deployment modes from on-premise to cloud to hybrid scenarios, while making use of a modern, intuitive user experience

Understand reporting, planning, and analysis options within the central finance functionCarlos Juarez, TruQua EnterprisesUnderstand the new information architecture options introduced with SAP central finance functionality vis-a-vis your SAP ERP, SAP BW, SAP BusinessObjects, and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation investments. During this session, you will:

y Learn the new master data governance considerations for integrated transac-tions and analytics, such as cross-system document flows and drill-back into SAP ERP source systems

y Review the SAP HANA live content for SAP BusinessObjects and SAP Fiori®-based analytics

y Understand how to position and integrate standalone SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP BW infrastructure and investments with central finance

Leverage SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver and SAP Simple Finance to integrate your business plans in a real-time mannerPras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this session to learn how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, is deeply integrated with SAP ERP and SAP Simple Finance through SAP Integrated Business Planning for finance content. During this session:

y Gain insight into how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 provides real-time access to data and master data, while providing access to make instant decisions

y Examine SAP Business Planning and Consolidation as the focal point of integration across various SAP solutions including SAP Cloud for Planning

SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANAChristian Mnich, SAP SEThe new SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA solution enables customers to optimise their view on global cash balances and provides capabilities for better liquidity forecast and planning out of an integrated process using ERP-based data. During this session, you will:

y Get step-by-step advice for utilising the new application SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA to get a real-time overview of bank accounts

y See first-hand what workflow capabilities exist to set up new bank accounts, manage signatories, limits, risks, and more

y View a live demo of the system using the SAP Fiori user interface

y Understand the different deployment options for SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA


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How to leverage SAP Simple Finance: Building a roadmap based on the central finance function and shared service frameworkBernhard Netzer, DeloitteThis session examines how large, interna-tional entities -- companies that have spent decades making SAP ERP and SAP Business Suite system landscapes the backbone of their operations -- could approach the creation of an SAP Simple Finance adoption and finance transformation roadmap that maximises early-stage benefits and addresses system landscape and organisational change in a controlled and manageable way. Attend and learn:

y How to make new SAP Simple Finance processes available to your company without migrating your entire SAP landscape to SAP HANA

y Smart ways to optimise your SAP ERP backbone to enable global services / shared service operations

y How to make IT a facilitator and enabler of organisational transformation

SAP Simple Finance and its impact on the finance functionDr. Stephan Kaum, EYMany companies around the globe are considering the implementation of SAP Simple Finance on SAP S/4HANA. Besides the technological changes, many questions exist around how this new technology is going to affect finance on a foundational/functional level. This session addresses those issues and casts light on big-picture questions like:

y What is the impact on the role of finance and what are organisational consequences, especially as it relates to controlling and accounting?

y What does it all mean for the governance and finance operating model?

y What are challenges and potential lifts and pitfalls associated with SAP Simple Finance?

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SAP’s roadmap for finance: Discover the future of finance with SAP Simple FinanceMartin Naraschewski, SAP SETake a guided tour of SAP Simple Finance, and learn how technology innovations support finance transformation and enable finance to become a more strategic partner to the business. During this session:

y Find out how finance can engage with the business to drive value leveraging instant prediction, analysis, and planning across financial and operational processes

y Hear how the latest technology can help to extend finance processes across business networks for optimal collabora-tion with customers, suppliers, banks, and government authorities

y See firsthand current and upcoming innovations that leverage in-memory computing for built-in data consistency, instant insight, and predictive analysis

y Hear how your organisation can choose from deployment modes from on-premise to cloud to hybrid scenarios, while making use of a modern, intuitive user experience

2015 guide to the newest capabilities of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1Pras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this session and learn how to fully exploit the features and functionality avail-able in the latest release (10.1) of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, versions for SAP NetWeaver and the Microsoft platform. By attending, you learn how to:

y Build a more unified planning model based on SAP BW metadata for enterprise-wide planning and consolida-tion scenarios

y Use new functionality to support integrated business planning, dynamic modelling, and simulation

y Deploy reports and analyses to business users with the new Web and Mobile user interface

Enhancement package 7: A detailed guide to the latest functionality made available for financeRobert Schiffner, PwCReady to upgrade to SAP enhancement package 7, but want a better understanding of what’s involved in the project? Then this session is for you. By attending, you will:

y Learn what functionality is enabled via SAP enhancement package 7 and how to best maximise the value for the financials function, including updates surrounding SAP Fiori, MRP runs, and data aging objects

y Get detailed insight into how the enhancement package has been optimised for both the SAP HANA database as well as traditional certified databases

y Examine key lessons learned and recommendations from numerous client engagements where SAP enhancement package 7 has been deployed

SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting 1.0: Evaluating SAP’s new revenue recognition functionalityPete Graham, SAPThis session examines the recently issued IFRS 15 accounting standard for revenue recogni-tion and helps you determine whether SAP’s new Revenue Accounting and Reporting solution offers the right strategic fit for your organisation. Join this session and learn about the benefits, risks, and impacts associated with the solution, including how to:

y Identify the key configuration, data migration, and process-related consider-ations that must be addressed

y Determine your system integration requirements

y Explore the testing, resource planning, and deployment issues associated with adoption

SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA — An update on SAP’s next-generation accounting solutionStefan Karl, SAP SEJoin this session for an overview and demo of the concepts, functionality, and user experi-ence of the newest release of SAP’s new accounting solution. Attend to learn about:

y A single source of truth for financial and management accounting

y A line-item-based approach for unlimited flexibility in processing and reporting

y Consumer-grade UIs for business transactions and real-time analytic insight

y Accelerated period-end close and intra-month soft close

y Easy migration from SAP ERP 6.0 to the new accounting solution

y Benefits achieved and lessons learned from first customer projects

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The 2015 guide to SAP solutions for enterprise performance managementKaruna Mukherjea, SAPThis session provides an overview and roadmap for enterprise performance manage-ment (EPM) solutions from SAP, including apps for strategy management, planning, profitability, consolidations, and disclosure management. Attend to learn:

y How mobile, cloud computing, and in-memory technology are incorporated into SAP solutions for EPM

y How SAP solutions for EPM fit into your existing landscape, whether it includes SAP ERP, SAP BW, or SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions

y Planned innovations and the future direction for the EPM portfolio

Mobilising SAP EPM and BI: Capabilities, integration points, and process decisionsKaruna Mukherjea, SAPThis session provides an overview of tools and techniques to develop and execute a mobile finance model within your organisa-tion, including guidance for leveraging SAP solutions for enterprise performance manage-ment (EPM) to streamline the process. By attending, you will:

y Understand the key benefits of mobilising financial processes, and view real-world examples for insight into how it creates a more agile and productive finance organisation

y Get an overview of the various SAP mobile solutions for EPM, including a sneak peek at the SAP roadmap for insight into planned enhancements and investment areas

SAP and Concur travel solutions: An overviewHartmut Laser, SAP SEThis session provides an up-to-date overview of SAP travel solutions including the Concur offering. Attend this session and:

y See firsthand what the new SAP Travel Management with SAP Fiori UI looks like and learn how you can leverage it

y Understand the status of SAP Travel Management, the SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense solution, and the strategy around these solutions

y Get an overview of the Concur products for business travel, including the expense solution, an online booking component

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The inside track on operational reporting in SAP ERPNaeem Arif, Jaguar Land RoverThis session illustrates how many day-to-day financial reporting requirements can be met using the standard reporting functionality available within SAP ERP. Join this session and:

y Examine a selection of standard reports and uncover the hidden reporting and variant selection options available

y Learn how to build a simple trial balance report using the Report Painter tool to get real-time data with detailed, line item drill-down capabilities

y See how to use Query QuickViewer tool to extract data that supports operational reporting requirements and implemen-tation processes

y Learn how to access and format reporting data more quickly and efficiently, even in the midst of month-end close

How to perform a master data conversion for more accurate product costing and management reportingAshish Katyayan, DeloitteAttend this session and learn leading practices for performing a master data conversion while also ensuring that your standard cost matches that in your legacy system. During this session:

y Get tips to ensure that the inventory valuation in your legacy system matches with a minimal revaluation impact

y Learn how to ensure that your product costing data is good for management reporting at period end

y Walk through a checks-and-balances process to ensure that your data aligns once the conversion is complete

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How Airbus leverages a hybrid SAP HANA Live / SAP BW on SAP HANA platform for faster, simpler integrated financial reporting and planningFrank M. Elias, Airbus GroupLearn how Airbus turned an obsolescence challenge into a competitive advantage by implementing a hybrid SAP HANA solution. Examine the company’s successful migration from multiple platforms to a single SAP HANA platform, including:

y Motivation, business case, and key factors contributing to project success

y Considerations that lead to a hybrid solution architecture, balancing real-time SAP HANA Live reporting and SAP BW on SAP HANA with SLT real-time replication, nearline storage and BPC planning

y Steps taken to overcome challenges associated with platform setup, working with design teams and project execution

y Key benefits realised and future plans based on learnings to date

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How Airbus moved from multiple local reporting applications to an integrated financial reporting and planning platform based on SAP HANABéatrice Lapeyrade and Frank M. Elias, AirbusStep through the key decisions that led Airbus to the successful consolidation of 140+ local and corporate finance reporting applica-tions and 30 solutions into a single, integrated platform. This session illustrates how Airbus:

y Built the business case for SAP HANA-based integration

y Approached the design and set up of the IFRP platform based on SAP in-memory technology

y Managed complex migrations involving stakeholders from controlling, accounting, treasury, and costing

y Properly decommissioned current finance reporting platforms

Developing and implementing an integrated IFRS 15 transition approachRobert Schiffner, PwCHow will you be affected by the FASB and IASB’s new revenue recognition standards? This session examines how IFRS 15 impacts your financials, your investors, and the way you do business. Attend and learn:

y What impact the standard has on your organisation, processes, and financial applications

y How to develop an integrated approach that effectively leverages the transition period – from strategy to implementation

y About enabling technology options and how they fit into your existing SAP ERP environment

y How to leverage the transition to gain insights into and make improvements to your revenue recognition process

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Financial analytics: Practical guidance for enabling historic and forward-looking insight into financial operationsHenner Schliebs, SAPAttend this session and learn how SAP’s latest applied analytics solutions for finance can help finance departments make the right decisions and better support the business to drive performance. Attend this session and learn how to:

y More accurately produce sales forecasting

y Avoid cash shortages, which require expensive financing

y Leverage integrated, transaction-specific reporting for faster business decisions

y Evaluate threats to cash flow through trend analysis

Using functional areas to effectively report operating expenses with SAP GLRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareDo you fully understand the best ways to use core SAP ERP Financials functionality to report operational expenses in the P&L statement? Learn how using the functional area and the cost-of-sales accounting functionality in SAP enables you to categorise expenses in the P&L statement. This session walks through detailed steps to help you optimally configure each functional area for your needs. You will:







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Selecting the right SAP planning solution for your financial planning and analysis needsDamien Fribourg, SAPRecent innovations such as in-memory technology and the cloud have transformed financial planning. This session will provide:

y A complete overview of the available financial planning and analysis tools from SAP, including SAP Business Planning and Consolidation; integrated business planning for finance, as part of SAP Simple Finance; and SAP Cloud for Planning

y A comparison of the financial planning and analysis capabilities within each tool, including use cases for each

y A deeper understanding of each solution and how each is designed as well as available deployment options

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Planning, budgeting, and forecasting process improvements at Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science, Research and EconomyPhilipp Otto, Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science, Research and EconomyThis session examines how Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science and Research unified budgetary planning, control-ling, and forecasting by migrating to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 using home-grown spreadsheets, SAP BusinessObjects™ Web Intelligence® 4.0, and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. Attend this session and:

y See how the Ministry improved its data quality, slimmed down processes, and pushed transparency to maximum levels by implementing SAP standard tools

y Understand how compliance standards — for example, planning budgets up to four years in advance — drove the Ministry’s new planning initiative

y Learn why the Ministry chose to move from SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation 7.5 to version 10.0 and how it handled key migration hurdles

Take home sample budget spreadsheets used by the Ministry that you can reference while building or optimising your own.

The 2015 guide to SAP solutions for enterprise performance managementKaruna Mukherjea, SAPThis session provides an overview and roadmap for enterprise performance manage-ment (EPM) solutions from SAP, including apps for strategy management, planning, profitability, consolidations, and disclosure management. Attend to learn:

y How mobile, cloud computing, and in-memory technology are incorporated into SAP solutions for EPM

y How SAP solutions for EPM fit into your existing landscape, whether it includes SAP ERP, SAP BW, or SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions

y Planned innovations and the future direction for the EPM portfolio

Introducing SAP Cloud for PlanningKaruna Mukherjea, SAPSAP Cloud for Planning is an exciting new public cloud solution, built on the SAP HANA Cloud platform, designed around user experi-ence to simplify planning processes with embedded analytics and collaboration. Attend this session to:

y Get tips to leverage SAP Cloud for Planning to simplify financial planning and analysis and eliminate complexities around your planning processes

y Understand what capabilities exist to analyse, plan, collaborate, and consume information through both the web and on mobile devices

y Learn how to perform native integration with SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation for hybrid scenarios

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SAP Cloud for PlanningDamien Fribourg, SAPAttend this product demo to see firsthand SAP’s new cloud planning application that helps customers plan simpler. During this interactive demo, you will view:

y How the future-oriented design combines embedded analytics, collabo-ration, mobile, and powerful modelling in a single planning solution

y The key capabilities and integration points that exist between SAP Cloud for Planning and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Critical differentiators versus other cloud planning apps on the market

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Using driver-based performance management as the cornerstone of your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 budgeting and forecasting projectHolger Lämmel, EY NorwayAre you struggling with your existing EPM solution to deliver business value and accuracy, improve flexibility, and increase buy-in from non-financial budget owners? Attend this presentation and learn how driver-based performance management can help you overcome these challenges, including how to:

y Compare driver-based performance management against concepts like incremental increase, zero-based budgeting, and rolling forecast

y Operationalise your budgeting and forecasting, and link it to strategic planning

y Better manage volatility with integrated risk management

y Implement driver-based performance management with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

How to improve your close and disclosure processes with SAP solutions for enterprise performance managementElizabeth Milne, SAPAttend this session and get leading practices for achieving a faster, more accurate financial close using the financial closing and disclo-sure management tools from SAP. During this session:

y Find out what steps can be taken to automate workflows, making the assignment of responsibilities and sharing of information across finance teams far more efficient and timely

y Hear firsthand how to simplify the creation, filing, and publication of financial statements

y Examine new ways to automate production of financial statements, such as the cash flow and provide transpar-ency and stakeholder confidence

Driving more accurate planning and performance management: Requirements and options for enabling an integrated BPC and BI landscapeAndrew Joo, IBMThis session offers expert guidance on whether and how to integrate SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with SAP Busines-sObjects BI solutions and SAP HANA to create a more unified and comprehensive view of your organisation’s strategic, financial, and operational information. During this session:

y Step through real-world integration scenarios for insight into how leading organisations have enabled multi-dimensional profit and loss statements, profitability- and driver-based reporting capabilities, and “what-if” analysis

y Explore options and requirements for harnessing the power of big data through an integrated SAP HANA and EPM model, and how this accelerates planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities

y Discover how to analyse actual, budget, and forecast data at all levels of granularity by leveraging SAP Business Planning and Consolidation in conjunc-tion with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Lessons learned from Syngenta’s EPM system implementationClaire Rook, SyngentaThis session examines Syngenta’s journey to selecting and implementing the SAP Financial Consolidation application. Attend and learn about its global project to better support internal and external reporting require-ments, and the benefits of the new integrated approach with existing transactional and management information systems. Learn from Syngenta’s first-hand experience:

y When it’s time to change your EPM tool

y The importance of a selection process to find the right solution for your specific needs (based on your specific criteria)

y How to overcome the transformation and change management challenges associated with the shift, including how to manage stakeholder communications.

Mobilising SAP EPM and BI: Capabilities, integration points, and process decisionsKaruna Mukherjea, SAPThis session provides an overview of tools and techniques to develop and execute a mobile finance model within your organisa-tion, including guidance for leveraging SAP solutions for enterprise performance manage-ment (EPM) to streamline the process. By attending, you will:

y Understand the key benefits of mobilising financial processes, and view real-world examples for insight into how it creates a more agile and productive finance organisation

y Get an overview of the various SAP mobile solutions for EPM, including a sneak peek at the SAP roadmap for insight into planned enhancements and investment areas

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Mobile performance management with SAP EPM Unwired 3.0Sean Johnson, SAPAttend this session for an end-to-end product demo. Learn ways to manage and analyse your enterprise performance data anywhere and anytime, and explore how to:

y View, analyse, and input planning and consolidation data on the iPad

y More easily view strategy management reports

y Display data and analyse key metrics from the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform

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How to close your books faster and simpler with SAP solutions powered by SAP HANAKirk Anderson, SAPGet a comprehensive overview of the SAP solutions powered by SAP HANA which help to speed up closing and financial reporting at the period end as well as achieve soft closes within the period. This session will address:

y Typical pain points slowing down the financial hard close and soft close

y Capabilities in SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA for faster period-end processes

y New and planned capabilities in SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA supporting soft financial closes

y Experiences of leveraging SAP HANA in the consolidation process

y Solutions for financial insight and close monitoring on mobile devices

How to accurately perform variance analysis in SAP ERP FinancialsAshish Katyayan, DeloitteThis session guides you through the integrated planning and automatic variance analysis functionality in SAP providing finance teams with an effective tool to use during their period end closings. This session equips you with:

y Detailed insights into leveraging integrated planning in SAP ERP including CO-PA, HR, cost centre accounting, product costing, and production planning

y Practical advice to define allocations so that a meaningful comparison can be carried out with actuals

y Step-by-step advice for designing variance analysis to ease month-end reporting

y Instruction for creating mid-month profit forecasts

How to improve your close and disclosure processes with SAP solutions for enterprise performance managementElizabeth Milne, SAPAttend this session and get leading practices for achieving a faster, more accurate financial close using the financial closing and disclo-sure management tools from SAP. During this session:

y Find out what steps can be taken to automate workflows, making the assignment of responsibilities and sharing of information across finance teams far more efficient and timely

y Hear firsthand how to simplify the creation, filing, and publication of financial statements

y Examine new ways to automate production of financial statements, such as the cash flow and provide transpar-ency and stakeholder confidence

Improving and automating closing cockpit functionality in SAP ERP 6.0Genco Odevci, EYWith new SAP deployments, mergers, and acquisitions bringing all kinds of challenges to the IT organisations, how should you position yourself to adapt your SAP Financial Closing cockpit configurations? By attending, you will walk through:

y Practical tips for building your organisa-tional hierarchy to facilitate expansion to new entities

y Tips and tricks to streamline period close and add more automation functionality to your existing setup

y Steps for conducting testing cycles before new changes are deployed to production

y A checklist of key functional takeaways from the SAP Financial Closing cockpit add-on

Best practices for streamlining the account reconciliation process for a faster closeMario Spanicciati, BlackLine Systems and Stefan Karl, SAP SEExplore best practices for optimising the account reconciliation process, whether operating in an SAP-only environment or using multiple ERP/general ledger systems. Delegates will explore innovative strategies and new ideas to automate the account reconciliation process, including:

y Proven tactics for achieving enhanced visibility into and control over the status, progress, exceptions, and risk points around the financial close

y New ways to improve the accuracy and timeliness of compliance reporting, even when managing multiple locations worldwide

y Options for using standardised templates to improve quality and consistency, including tips to implement company-wide policies and procedures surrounding the financial close process

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How Shell International B.V. achieved faster financial closes and enhanced cross-divisional financial and management reportingIan Millea, Shell International B.V.Discover how Shell International B.V. delivers a standardised, organisationally aligned, and vertically integrated financial consolidation and management reporting solution for over 1,500 users globally. Attend this session to learn how the company:

y Reduced the duration of its worldwide monthly financial close process with an integrated SAP Financial Consolidation 10.0 and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 environment

y Integrated both SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) and non-SAP datasets with SAP solutions for enterprise performance management

y Improved management reporting by enabling global transparency across the organisation

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The latest technology for accelerating receivables and improving working capital managementKatharina Reichert, SAP SEAttend this session and learn how the latest functionality for receivables management can improve cash management activities. By attending, you gain:

y An overview of all the tools SAP provides for working capital optimisation — from incoming cash in receivables to cash management in your treasury team to outgoing payment

y Detailed insight on how you can gain access to the current status of working capital management utilising SAP HANA

y An up-close look at how the latest SAP Fiori technology alters user experience for collections and dispute management

SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANAChristian Mnich, SAP SEThe new SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA solution enables customers to optimise their view on global cash balances and provides capabilities for better liquidity forecast and planning out of an integrated process using ERP-based data. During this session, you will:

y Get step-by-step advice for utilising the new application SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA to get a real-time overview of bank accounts

y See first-hand what workflow capabilities exist to set up new bank accounts, manage signatories, limits, risks, and more

y View a live demo of the system using the SAP Fiori user interface

y Understand the different deployment options for SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

An A-to-Z guide to treasury solutions provided by SAPChristian Mnich, SAP SEListen in as an overview of the treasury appli-cations from SAP, starting with SAP Cash and Liquidity Management and SAP Bank Communication Management, is examined. You will learn:

y What enhancements SAP has made in the area of treasury, including those that now leverage the power of SAP HANA

y What steps you can take to optimise in-house and external payment processes

y A basic understanding of how SAP Treasury and Risk Management is designed and its ease of use

y How to leverage SAP Treasury solutions to comply with legal regulations such as EMIR and IFRS changes

Streamline cash management with improved invoice-to-pay processesBrian Shannon, DolphinAttend this session to hear how leading organisations are transforming decades-old processes and departments to better align with strategic initiatives within the organisa-tion. You will:

y Hear how the concepts of disruptive change are enabling finance teams to deliver measurable value in the areas of cost containment, cash flow optimisa-tion, and risk mitigation

y Gain insight into key activities that can transform a near-cash process, including capture, processing, and analytical elements

y Walk through a roadmap to help speed process acceptance, improve change management, and smooth the transition during and after project launch

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Transform fragmented compliance programmes into an integrated governance, risk, and compliance strategy using SAP GRC solutionsGavin Campbell, IntegrcAttend this session to find out how the different tools within the GRC suite of products can come together and be integrated to create real business value and streamline fragmented governance, risk, and compliance processes. Specifically, you’ll learn:

y How SAP Access Control, the SAP Access Violation Management application by Greenlight, SAP Process Control, SAP Risk Management, SAP Fraud Management, SAP Audit Management, and SAP Fiori can be combined to enable a high-performing GRC operation

y How other organisations are progressing towards integration and how they have overcome common challenges, such as getting executive buy-in

y Compelling stories, examples, and templates to take back to your organisa-tion, which will help you more clearly articulate the benefits of an integrated GRC portfolio

How to successfully utilise risk analytics for an integrated approach to enterprise complianceManuel Giralt Herrero, EYExamine how to enable an integrated corporate risk analytics programme in your organisation, taking advantage of the SAP analytics portfolio. By attending, you will learn how to:

y Provide better and aggregated reporting to top management and external regulators

y Provide easy and unified access to critical compliance information from multiple devices

y Extract tendencies and consequences of the huge amount of data generated in previous years

y Implement predictive capabilities through the usage of historic informa-tion and advanced algorithms, while taking advantage of the in-memory technology

Best-in-class recommendations and criteria for isolating and eliminating fraud Julius Steinriede, EYWith the occurrence of fraud becoming more and more common, it is imperative for organisations to identify relevant fraud risks, implement preventive controls, and review exceptions or anomalies to decrease the occurrence of incidents. Attend this session to:

y See how SAP Fraud Management supports the transformation of the risk function from the guardian of compliance to a strategic business advisor

y Get to know how SAP Fraud Management can be used to reduce the cost of controls and how it also can enhance business performance and deliver business insights

y Walk through practical use cases and benefits of SAP Fraud Management built on SAP HANA from a risk and performance management perspective

Tips and tricks to survive your next audit quickly and painlessly Steve Biskie, High Water Advisors This session provides insight to help project managers, implementation teams, administra-tors, and users better prepare for an audit of their SAP system. During this session, you will:

y Learn how the audit process works in an SAP environment, and get detailed advice on how to prepare for an audit

y Identify SAP functions and supporting business processes that will be under the closest scrutiny

y Review specific SAP configurable controls and learn what the auditor will typically be looking for related to these settings

y Explore audit issues related to the initial implementation or upgrade and how these can impact a subsequent audit

Creating the building blocks for effective risk management with SAP Risk Management 10.1Thomas Frénéhard, SAPSAP Risk Management provides an integrated approach to understanding, prioritising, and managing enterprise risks, delivering valuable data to support risk-based decision making. Attend this session to learn:

y How the solution supports several different control frameworks, such as ISO31000 and COSO ERM

y How to achieve accurate planning, risk identification and analysis, risk response, and monitoring in SAP Risk Management

y How SAP Risk Management aligns with SAP HANA and SAP Mobile Platform to provide real-time access to risk alerts via mobile devices

Enterprise risk and compliance management

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