For details about the benefits and capabilities of SAP for Banking, check out the following information:

Overview Brochures

• "Enterprise Resource Planning for Banks" (PDF, 244 KB) – Examine key features and benefits of SAP ERP to understand how solutions such as finance and human capital management help improve enterprise management and increase efficiency and agility.
• "Improve Operational Efficiency and Drive Down Costs" (PDF, 104 KB) – Learn how the SAP for Banking set of solutions enables your bank to grow and differentiate itself from the competition while improving operational efficiency and driving down costs.

Solution Briefs

• "Banking Analytics with SAP for Banking" (PDF, 163 KB) – Discover how the SAP for Banking solution portfolio provides crucial support for enterprise-wide reporting and strategic management, as well as management of your organization and financial products and consistent information for measuring risk-adjusted performance.
• "Currency Management and Optimization for Banks with SAP SCM" (PDF, 203 KB) – Read how SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) can help your bank meet fluctuating customer demands for currency while reducing transportation and other cash-service costs and minimizing the opportunity costs of holding excess cash.
• "Customer-Oriented Banking and Account Origination" (PDF, 315 KB) – Find out how SAP for Banking solutions help banks attract, support, and retain customers while reducing costs and increasing revenue – enabling you to distinguish your most valuable customers and deliver personalized products and service to them.
• "Enterprise Talent Management: Leveraging People, Processes, and Technology as a Competitive Advantage" (PDF, 480 KB) – See how SAP for Banking supports enterprise talent management – so you can increase operational efficiency and improve profitability.
• "Equipment Leasing with SAP Customer Relationship Management" (PDF, 77 KB) – Learn why many of the world's leading asset financing and leasing companies count on the SAP Leasing application of SAP Customer Relationship Management to develop innovative products, strong channel relationships, and cost-efficient operations.
• "Financial and Management Accounting with SAP for Banking" (PDF, 168 KB) – Discover how SAP for Banking solutions support key financial and management accounting activities – and the creation of reports based on these activities – to help you better coordinate the internal and external reporting of financials and risk.
• "Global Solutions Without Boundaries" (PDF 170 KB) – Improve global status with SAP NetWeaver and SAP solutions by increasing rapid access to critical data across your extended value chain in local markets – meeting diverse business and legal requirements through translation tools and country-specific features.
• "SAP Collateral Management" (PDF, 151 KB) – Consider how SAP for Banking solutions give banks the front- and back-end support you need for efficient collateral handling and risk mitigation – enabling you to make the most of industry best practices, reduce costs, and manage collateral more efficiently.

White Papers

• "Building a Business Case for Basel II" (PDF, 142 KB) – Learn how the SAP Basel II application and other SAP for Banking solutions can be key building blocks in your bank's transformation to an integrated platform for risk and financial management. Log-in required.
• "Execution of Strategy: Aligning Strategic, Operational and Financial Planning" (PDF, 829 KB) – Consider how SAP for Banking can help you align strategic, operational, and financial planning by improving your business strategies – as well as accountability and transparency of your financial and profitability data. Log-in required.
• "Operational Efficiency: Getting the Front and Back Office Pulling Together for Your Customer" (PDF, 814 KB) – Find out how the customer-centric functions of SAP for Banking can help you build a solid customer base by helping you identify and target your most profitable and valuable customers – now and into the future. Log-in required.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "SAP and Accenture Offer Core Banking Solutions to Help Achieve High Performance" (PDF, 148 KB) – Consider how powerful core banking solutions for transactional, analytical, and customer-centric banking processes provide the capacity to respond quickly to current and future market demands. Accenture and SAP (2005) Log-in required.
• "SAP Payment Engine: Making Payments Just Like at Home" (PDF, 186 KB) – Discover how you can use SAP Payment Engine to integrate payment transactions for continuous automatic processing and to introduce assets such as revenue-oriented service models to improve loyalty in high-value customers. Accenture and SAP (2005) Log-in required.
• "Shift to Real-time Bank Deposit Processing with Accenture and SAP" (PDF, 147 KB) – Learn how SAP Deposits Management can help you improve operations and gain competitive business advantages through flexible configuration tools, standardized core business processes, and application consolidation. Accenture and SAP (2005) Log-in required.
• "Shift to Real-time Bank Loan Processing with Accenture and SAP" (PDF 148 KB) – Find out how SAP Loans Management helps you manage the full lifecycle of loan products – initial contact through contract, disbursement, servicing, collection, and analysis – with integrated collateral management. Accenture and SAP (2005) Log-in required.
• "The Frontline Experience: A Research Report on Improving Customer Relationships" (PDF, 407 KB) – Discover how technology investments, process improvements, and more effective frontline employee selection and training can help you move ahead of the competition and improve customer relations. BAI, Accenture, and SAP (2005) Log-in required.
• "Transforming Bank Payment Processing with Accenture and SAP" (PDF, 147 KB) – Read how this multichannel payment solution provides flexible payment and cash management capabilities through real-time, online processing; data warehousing and reporting functions; and advanced, scalable architecture. Accenture and SAP (2005) Log-in required.