Fast deployment of cloud native accounting hub for financial services

A fully integrated accounting hub and subledger which delivers a single finance platform for SAP Cloud ERP users in financial services. It provides financial and product control with multi-GAAP accounting, profit and loss, balance sheet and transactional analytics over a wide range of products including bonds, equities, FX, repo, loans and deposits, derivatives and other complex structured products.

Overview

Supports finance in the move to cloud

SAP ECC users face a move to a new cloud based platform in SAP Cloud ERP. This solution offers a migration path and target architecture for a best practice cloud based finance platform supporting the thin ledger and detailed transactional sub ledger model for drill down and accounting at trade, as well as product, book and customer level.

Supports financial control and product control in the financial services

Written by financial services experts with extensive capital markets experience with native data model support for all financial products with multi-GAAP event based accounting, FX translation and revaluation, profit and loss explain and product control workflow. This complements the existing SAP ecosystem, and supports the product set and detailed functionality needed for capital markets, retail and commercial banking and payments.

Reduced risk through increased transparency and granular accounting data

Adding our product to your SAP Cloud ERP environment is the answer to data transparency and traceability in financial services. Photon's detailed sub-ledger and accounting engine supports trade (and book, product and customer) level accounting. This granular accounting data gives financial and product control unparalleled insights into finance, risk and profit and loss trends and explains exceptional events.

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Details

Solution type

Extensions and Add-ons

Industry

Insurance, Banking

Compatibility

Works with

This product is compatible with or enhances the functionality of these SAP solutions but doesn't require them.
SAP Analytics Cloud for business intelligenceSAP Analytics Cloud for planningSAP HANA CloudShow more

Features

Drill seamlessly from summary to detailed balances to transactional details

Users can drill from the summary balances in the SAP Cloud ERP down to detailed balances at a transaction level, then to the transaction in the subledger. The gives the user unparalleled capability for investigation and analysis.

Drill seamlessly from summary to detailed balances to transactional details
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Extensive financial and product control functionality

Industry specific capabilities include user definable multi-GAAP accounting, subledger and reporting including summary and detailed profit and loss, trial balance, transaction reports, profit and loss explain, product control workflow and SAP Analytics Cloud user interface for business agility

Extensive financial and product control functionality
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Single source of truth through standardised multi-GAAP accounting

The financial services environment is typified by multiple core banking, trading and payment systems, causing accounting differences and preventing a unified view of the institution. Accounting can now be achieved in a controlled and centralised platform, eliminating inconsistencies.

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Plans and pricing

All plans include:

Accounting Engine for user configurable multi-GAAP, multi-currency, multi-entity accountingSubledger which is high performance granular, double entry, balancing operating at summary and detailed balance levelCapital Markets data model and financial information repository operating on SAP Cloud ERPConfigurable, highly flexible SAP Analytics Cloud interface to drill down to all aspects of the systemIntegration as standard with SAP Cloud ERP

Technical Information

Solution type Extensions and Add-ons
Category Accounting and Financial Close
Industry Insurance, Banking
Works with
  • SAP Analytics Cloud for business intelligence
  • SAP Analytics Cloud for planning
  • SAP HANA Cloud

Resources

Photon Financial Hub

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