What are the most effective strategies for excelling in the integrated global marketplace? Do you have the proper insight and tools to align strategy with execution? Are you seizing opportunities to improve margins or capture new markets not identified by your competitors?

By enabling a common view of information, SAP software can help you improve strategic planning, streamline budgeting and forecasting, improve accuracy and consistency of financial and managerial reports, develop intuitive profitability models, and support a culture that values fact-based analysis – without disrupting your current system landscape or requiring wholesale upgrades of your IT infrastructure.

With SAP software and services, you can:

• Eliminate your reliance on spreadsheets to perform budgeting and planning activities – and improve productivity for corporate planning teams
• Improve control, accuracy, and speed of group-close activities, accelerating financial closing cycles and reducing the cost of internal audits
• Improve collaboration and enterprise-wide alignment of strategy with visualization techniques to link tasks, plans, budgets, goals, and individual performance measures – without the need for intensive end-user training or change management

Software and Services for Managing Performance and Driving Growth

SAP solutions for enterprise performance management can help you manage all requirements for financial and operational strategy, planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis. With these flexible and predictive solutions, you benefit from core process functionality plus a single, enterprise-scale architecture. The Financial Performance Management package from SAP and Business Objects, an SAP company, provides you with access to trusted financial information, enabling a deep understanding of how value is generated, and delivering strategic insight so you and other decision makers can better predict future business outcomes.

The SAP Price and Margin Management application by Vendavo supplements your SAP solutions with interactive negotiation functionalities, a framework for price setting and policy management, and real-time pricing analysis.

To complete the solution offering, SAP Services offers a portfolio of services to review financial processes and help establish industry best practices. Our services provide an established roadmap to ERP migration services and helps ensure successful performance management by allowing streamlining of financial reporting and month-end closing – giving you the information you need to guide operating units to better performance.

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