Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)

Navigate uncertainty and foster sustainable growth by applying trusted, context-rich data to make confident decisions faster.
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Accelerate confident decision cycles built on trusted data

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Unify insights, planning, and execution

SAP enables agile, AI-powered planning across financial and non-financial data at any granularity—from rapid operational responses to long-term strategic planning and execution.

Decide with trusted, context-rich data

Make faster, more confident decisions using trusted insights that align across all business areas.

Adjust plans quickly with AI-driven modelling

Automate model, logic, data and report creation with reliable AI, so plans adapt as conditions change and management priorities evolve.

Guide better planning and profitability

Trusted AI agents turn operational signals into prioritised recommendations with human-in-the-loop governance, transforming planning workflows.

Execute strategy with closed-loop planning

Turn scenarios into decisions and update core business applications, linking planning and execution with control and auditability.

Financial planning and analysis assistants

AI assistants help finance teams plan continuously by automating forecasting, analysis, and scenario simulation with reliable context-based data.

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Financial Planning Assistant

The assistant interprets business intent and orchestrates specialised AI agents to:

  • Continuously sense internal and external signals.

  • Reason across forecasts, variances, sentiments, and models.

  • Act directly by incorporating planning into decision-making. 

Finance teams can move from manual, periodic planning to dynamic, insight‑driven enterprise decisions.

Explore the Financial Planning Assistant 

Explore financial planning and analysis capabilities

Harmonise vetted business and operational data in AI-powered plans built to connect strategy with execution.

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Sense emerging risks

Agents continuously examine internal and external data, alerting users when KPIs are at risk based on the provided context.

 

Reason through change instantly

Context-aware agents evaluate multiple scenarios beyond traditional models, enabling fast, flexible responses to change.

 

Act by setting operational decisions in motion

Decision-makers select scenarios and define them as updated plans or actions, triggering coordinated execution and tighter operational control.

 

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The CFO's AI Agenda: From Automation to Advantage

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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Dynamic planning at Accenture

By adopting scenario-driven planning in SAP Analytics Cloud with a unified data foundation, planning at Accenture became dynamic, connected, and confidence‑driven.

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A single source of truth for finance planning

Learn how manufacturer STIHL makes data-driven decisions based on a single source of truth to manage extended planning and analysis.

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See what analysts are saying about SAP

SAP named a Leader for Financial Planning Software

Explore why Gartner® named SAP as a Leader in its 2025 Magic Quadrant™ report for Financial Planning Software.

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The Rise of Dynamic Planning in the Agentic AI Era

Explore how you can move to continuous planning to close faster and forecast more accurately—powered by agentic AI.

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SAP named a Leader for Cloud ERP Finance

Explore why Gartner® named SAP as a Leader in its 2025 Magic Quadrant™ report for Cloud ERP Finance.

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Autonomous finance starts here

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AI in financial planning

In this BARC Spotlight, discover how modelling agents, trusted data, and agile planning models help finance leaders accelerate decision-making while maintaining governance and control.

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Explore how you can transform your approach to performance management and unlock new opportunities for growth.

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Driving flexibility and AI success with EPM

Discover how running enterprise performance management software on your data platform reduces duplication, improves trust, and lets planning flow into execution.

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How Finance Departments Can Master Complexity Without Breaking the ERP Clean Core

Learn how finance organisations can balance flexibility, governance, and clean core principles while managing rising regulatory complexity and profitability analysis demands.

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A new paradigm for enterprise performance management

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Frequently asked questions

FP&A software models outcomes, monitors results, and guides decisions using financial and operational data. It helps organisations support budgeting, planning, forecasting, and performance analysis.

Data fabric lets planning teams direct access to company data and on-site processing. It enables contextual data into planning models, immediately analysis of plans, and model improvement through machine learning and external data without requiring data to be moved or duplicated.

The planning capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud support tactical and strategic planning through structured, model‑driven Plan–Do–Check–Act cycles—such as for budgeting, forecasting, and long‑term scenario analysis.

 

SAP Enterprise Planning extends this foundation with a rapid, agentic planning layer and shared domain content designed for short‑term, ad‑hoc decision‑making. It enables organisations to sense change, reason through impact, and act immediately, so they can make in‑the‑moment operational decisions that are not feasible with traditional planning cycles.

 

Together, the solutions cover the full planning spectrum: structured planning for medium‑ and long‑term alignment, and flexible, real‑time planning for rapid operational steering.

FP&A teams can use assistants that deploy agents to sense change, analyse impacts across scenarios, and support plan updates—helping teams move from periodic planning to continuous, insight‑driven decisions.

The most directly relevant AI agents for planning are the Conversational Planning Agent, Financial Forecasting Agent, Model Creation Agent, Variance Analysis Agent, and Market Sentiment Agent. In addition, the Financial Planning Assistant can orchestrate specialised AI agents to support continuous planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, and plan updates.

 

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, Regina Crowder, Sid Sahoo, Mike Lashinsky, 1 December 2025.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP Finance, Mike Helsel, Irmina Melarkode, Nick Duffy, Nisha Bhandare, 27 October 2025.

 

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