In the current high-stakes economic climate, banks face unprecedented challenges and extreme financial pressure. Issues such as margin compression, credit risk, liquidity risk, and profitability threaten to undermine overall bank performance.

To address these challenges, many leading financial institutions are turning to enterprise performance management solutions that integrate strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting, and profitability measurement processes.

SAP BusinessObjects solutions that support planning and consolidation for banks can enable:

• A configurable planning environment supporting budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning that can grow and evolve as your planning needs change
• Dynamic business modeling of institution and market assumptions that flow-through balance sheet, non-interest income, personnel, and other expense planning
• Cash-flow modeling of interest-bearing balance sheet products
• Analysis of profit centre performance before and after funds-transfer pricing
• Intuitive modeling "views" to promote greater participation and accountability across management levels
• Real-time access to management, financial, and regulatory reporting

As a result, you can streamline planning, forecasting, and budgeting – unified with financial consolidation and statutory and management reporting – to instill confidence and reduce risk.

Solutions that support planning and consolidation for banks include:

• SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

Want to Learn More?

"Efficient Business Planning and Consolidation for Banks" (PDF)