Collaborative business planning and analysis is about aligning plans, optimising profitability, and gaining real-time insights into key financial and operational metrics to be more agile and improve performance.
Planning and Analysis
Planning and Analysis solutions
No matter what part of the business you’re in, our solutions for planning and analysis help you collaboratively plan, budget, forecast, and report performance to make better decisions and improve results.
SAP Analytics Cloud
Plan, analyse, predict, and collaborate across the business in a single SaaS application – with SAP Analytics Cloud. Powered by SAP HANA in-memory technology, this product can help you simplify and link strategic, financial, and operational planning eliminating the need for separate planning products or standalone spreadsheets.
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SAP Digital Boardroom
Enable decision makers to gain real-time insights into financial and operational metrics so they can act in the moment. With SAP Digital Boardroom, users can make fast, informed decisions by collaborating directly on screen or remotely and by sharing the story behind the numbers.
- Cloud deployment
- Instant insights into key performance drivers
- Real-time interactions on screen or via mobile device
- Ability to capitalise on new opportunities
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
Easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards with planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities in a single application.
- On-premise deployment
- Optimised for SAP S/4HANA Finance
- Integrated with SAP Analytics Cloud for hybrid reporting and planning scenarios
SAP Analytics Cloud
Align operational and financial plans to achieve objectives and improve performance by breaking down silos and collaborating across your business. The SAP Analytics Cloud solution allows you to discover, analyse, plan, predict, and collaborate in one, integrated experience designed for the cloud.
- Cloud deployment
- Single solution for collaborative business planning across Finance, Sales, HR, and Marketing
- Embedded analytics and reporting
- Seamless integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Profitability modelling and optimisation
Build, maintain, and utilise sophisticated business and financial models that support multiple allocation methods for costs and revenue. The SAP Profitability and Performance Management application empowers your finance team with valuable insights to inform strategic decisions.
- On-premise and cloud deployment
- Full transparency into costs and profitability
- Ad hoc simulations across multiple dimensions
- Personalised business and financial models
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Examine research on how companies using SAP Analytics solutions achieved a 171% ROI over three years with a 5.6 month pay-back period. Significant improvements include 30% reduction in incidents, a time savings of 97% to create reports, and further time savings for financial consolidation, data normalisation, and IT data management.
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117%
improvement in time it takes to complete forecasts.
Dynamic Planning: Live in the moment to success in the future, an Aberdeen Group study
100%
improvement in time-to-decision.
Dynamic Planning: Live in the moment to success in the future, an Aberdeen Group study
40%
improvement in productivity.
Dynamic Planning: Live in the moment to success in the future, an Aberdeen Group study
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