Managing the Present, Predicting the Future: Finance in the Cloud
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the present,
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Finance in the cloud
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the present,
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Finance in the cloud
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They’re asking you to be the chief
future-focused, future-ready, future-
fueling, future-everything officer, and
to do that all at once, you have to
make sure your financial tools aren’t
holding you back.
These days, the “F” in CFO stands for far
more than finance. And the folks around
the leadership table are tasking you not
only with keeping the day-to-day, quarter-
to-quarter, and year-to-year financial
engines running well – they’re demanding
future-focused financial wisdom to inform
investments, priorities, and plans.
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future-focused, future-ready, future-
fueling, future-everything officer, and
to do that all at once, you have to
make sure your financial tools aren’t
holding you back.
These days, the “F” in CFO stands for far
more than finance. And the folks around
the leadership table are tasking you not
only with keeping the day-to-day, quarter-
to-quarter, and year-to-year financial
engines running well – they’re demanding
future-focused financial wisdom to inform
investments, priorities, and plans.
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How do you get there?
Keeping one eye on the increasingly complex financials of your
business and the other on the financial horizon isn’t something
you can easily do if your ERP system isn’t up to the task. Good
thing there’s an easy way to get ready:
GROW with SAP delivers a ready-to-go cloud ERP solution
with the service and support to get you up and running
quickly, accelerate adoption, and make sure you see value
as fast as possible – without taking over your IT team or your
precious budget.
That solution: SAP® S/4HANA® Cloud, public edition.
It’s a forward-focused finance offering that takes care of the
day-to-day and tomorrow by combining cloud ERP’s speed,
predictability, and continuous innovation with 50 years of
financial expertise.
So, what does the future of finance look like with a solution and
support from SAP? Let’s find out.
“ Before SAP S/4HANA, we didn’t have an
ERP. All business areas worked separately
and on their own software and processes.
With S/4HANA, we have all our business
processes in one platform. We did the
implementation in eight months, and
now the board of directors has all their
information in two clicks.”
– Xavi Boldares, IT Manager in IDNEO
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Keeping one eye on the increasingly complex financials of your
business and the other on the financial horizon isn’t something
you can easily do if your ERP system isn’t up to the task. Good
thing there’s an easy way to get ready:
GROW with SAP delivers a ready-to-go cloud ERP solution
with the service and support to get you up and running
quickly, accelerate adoption, and make sure you see value
as fast as possible – without taking over your IT team or your
precious budget.
That solution: SAP® S/4HANA® Cloud, public edition.
It’s a forward-focused finance offering that takes care of the
day-to-day and tomorrow by combining cloud ERP’s speed,
predictability, and continuous innovation with 50 years of
financial expertise.
So, what does the future of finance look like with a solution and
support from SAP? Let’s find out.
“ Before SAP S/4HANA, we didn’t have an
ERP. All business areas worked separately
and on their own software and processes.
With S/4HANA, we have all our business
processes in one platform. We did the
implementation in eight months, and
now the board of directors has all their
information in two clicks.”
– Xavi Boldares, IT Manager in IDNEO
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Increase the efficiency of finance
“ SAP S/4HANA Cloud saves a lot of time. Complex and
large transitions take place within minutes. Overall
reporting is improved, and ROI has increased a lot.”
– Shehroz Habib ACCA, Sr. Accounts Executive
in Master Tiles & Ceramics Industries Ltd.
• Take advantage of what’s proven to help you run more efficiently – using order-to-
cash, purchase-to-pay, record-to-report, and other end-to-end business processes
that extend across 25 industries.
• Make the most of revenue flow with highly automated, exception-based, intelligent
receivables and payment handling – driven by AI and machine learning.
• Shift from calendar-based to continuous accounting by unifying financial, people,
and operational data – and by integrating planning, accounting transactions, and
legal/management consolidation into one system.
Don’t waste time shuffling data around or crafting over-customized workflows.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, helps you ramp up organizational speed while
driving down operational costs. It lets you:
• Access a single data source for both transactional and analytical data – boosting
data-quality management while reducing the time it takes to generate reports.
• Keep all your ledger information in one place, so you don’t have to move data
around, and it’s always available instantly – allowing you to close your books faster
and support soft closes.
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“ SAP S/4HANA Cloud saves a lot of time. Complex and
large transitions take place within minutes. Overall
reporting is improved, and ROI has increased a lot.”
– Shehroz Habib ACCA, Sr. Accounts Executive
in Master Tiles & Ceramics Industries Ltd.
• Take advantage of what’s proven to help you run more efficiently – using order-to-
cash, purchase-to-pay, record-to-report, and other end-to-end business processes
that extend across 25 industries.
• Make the most of revenue flow with highly automated, exception-based, intelligent
receivables and payment handling – driven by AI and machine learning.
• Shift from calendar-based to continuous accounting by unifying financial, people,
and operational data – and by integrating planning, accounting transactions, and
legal/management consolidation into one system.
Don’t waste time shuffling data around or crafting over-customized workflows.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, helps you ramp up organizational speed while
driving down operational costs. It lets you:
• Access a single data source for both transactional and analytical data – boosting
data-quality management while reducing the time it takes to generate reports.
• Keep all your ledger information in one place, so you don’t have to move data
around, and it’s always available instantly – allowing you to close your books faster
and support soft closes.
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Guide users every
Step of the way
Use the depth of your data and intelligent technology to do
the heavy lifting – so your team can get the most out of every
minute, you can easily up- and reskill your people, and your
company can get more done in times of hard-to-find headcount.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, helps you:
• Use AI, machine learning, and RPA to automate what your team
is currently doing by hand. So they can handle more volume
without more overhead, and they can focus on analysis and
action over day-to-day administration.
• Access digital assistants that help finance users get work done
faster – running plan-to-actual, variance analysis, and close
periods faster and more accurately.
• Tap into intelligent situation handling that alerts users to urgent
issues – proposing follow-up actions and automating the
resolution, so you can solve critical business concerns faster.
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Step of the way
Use the depth of your data and intelligent technology to do
the heavy lifting – so your team can get the most out of every
minute, you can easily up- and reskill your people, and your
company can get more done in times of hard-to-find headcount.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, helps you:
• Use AI, machine learning, and RPA to automate what your team
is currently doing by hand. So they can handle more volume
without more overhead, and they can focus on analysis and
action over day-to-day administration.
• Access digital assistants that help finance users get work done
faster – running plan-to-actual, variance analysis, and close
periods faster and more accurately.
• Tap into intelligent situation handling that alerts users to urgent
issues – proposing follow-up actions and automating the
resolution, so you can solve critical business concerns faster.
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