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Consider the complex and often competing forces that now impact finance and supporting
IT teams. There are mounting demands for more effective compliance, stewardship and risk
management. You are expected to support value creation across the entire organization, not
just within the realm of finance, and to do all this as you meet objectives to improve service
delivery and reduce costs. This is happening at a time when the technology landscape is
radically changing. “Big data,” cloud computing, real-time analysis, and mobility bring both
new opportunities and new challenges.

At Financials 2012, our aim is to help you navigate this new reality by showcasing best practices from your peers
and industry thought-leaders and by giving you deep and practical insight into SAP’s growing portfolio of
finance solutions. You will leave with a rich understanding of our vision and roadmaps spanning accounting and
financial management, treasury and financial risk management, travel and expense management, invoice to pay,
receivables management, enterprise performance management, and governance, risk and compliance processes.

This event is your opportunity to network with colleagues who face the same challenges you are facing and to
directly access SAP’s solutions experts to help you understand how you can meet your specific business goals. I
hope that you will join me, your peers, and the SAP® community of experts in Milan to engage in a rich debate,
ensuring that you have the visibility to lead.

Sincerely,

Frederic Laluyaux
General Manager
EPM, GRC and Finance Line of Business

Schedule
Pre-Conference
The financial conference for SAP customers, 6-8 June
Education Day
Tuesday, 5 June Wednesday, 6 June Thursday, 7 June Friday, 8 June
9.00 Registration opens 8.00 Registration opens / 8.30 Registration opens / 8.30 Registration opens /
Exhibit Hall Opens Exhibit Hall Opens Exhibit Hall Opens
10.00 Morning Pre-Conference
Education sessions 9.00 General assembly 9.00 Keynote address 9.00 Educational sessions
13.00 Networking Lunch 10.15 Break 10.15 Break 10.15 Break
14.30 Afternoon Pre-Conference 10.45 Educational sessions 10.45 Educational sessions 10.45 Educational sessions
Education sessions
12.00 Break 12.00 Break 12.00 Lunch
17.30 Registration closes
12.15 Educational sessions 12.15 Educational sessions 13.15 Educational sessions /
Exhibit Hall Closed
13.30 Lunch 13.30 Lunch
14.30 Break
14.45 Educational sessions 14.30 Educational sessions
14.45 Educational sessions
16.00 Break 15.45 Exhibitor Meet and Greet
16.00 Break
16.15 Educational sessions 16.00 Ask-the-Experts
16.15 Educational sessions
17.30 Reception 16.45 Educational sessions
17.30 Conference concludes
17.45 Ask-the-Experts

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Pre-Conference Education Day • Tuesday, 5 June

Pre-conference foundational, orientation, and networking sessions

„ Intensive three-hour sessions that concentrate on solving specific challenges and techniques

„ Opportunity to fully immerse yourself in detailed education about a specific SAP technology

„ Special networking lunch with your peers

„ Orientation sessions that acclimate you to the conference

Main Conference • 6-8 June • More than 225 sessions spanning 12 tracks

Track 1. Strategies for higher performing and more cost-effective finance operations Page 11

Track 2. Financial accounting Page 14

Track 3. Managerial accounting and controlling Page 16

Track 4. Closings and consolidations Page 18

Track 5. Planning, forecasting, and budgeting Page 21

Track 6. SAP General Ledger Page 23

Track 7. SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Page 24

Track 8. Financial reports, analyses, and business intelligence Page 27

Track 9. Data management Page 30

Track 10. Cash management and treasury Page 31

Track 11. Multi-national finance, compliance, and risk management Page 33

Track 12. Audits Page 35

Column5 EPM Education Center Page 36

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NEW! Column5 EPM

Education Center

The Column5 EPM Education Center, located at select WIS events, sets
the industry standard in quality curriculum, with an entire EPM track of
course content developed by top field experts on SAP EPM products and
delivered in a variety of formats including:
• Customer Case Studies
• Panel and Roundtable Discussions
• Moderated Networking Sessions
• Product Demonstrations & Roadmaps

What is EPM?

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is an umbrella term that describes the methodologies, metrics, processes, and technology
systems used to monitor and manage an enterprise’s business performance. EPM streamlines and improves strategic plans on a
variety of critical levels: managing variability, increasing information accuracy and consistency, increasing profitability and shareholder
value, lowering overall cost, and other key performance indicators.

Column5 focuses its EPM educational programs on developing mature management processes that readily adapt to change—providing
consistent information across organizations and helping monitor progress against plans.

Column5 EPM Education Center sessions focus on one or more of the following SAP
BusinessObjects platforms and tools:
• Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Strategy Management (SSM)
• Profitability and Cost Management (PCM)
• Microsoft and Netweaver Platforms
Admission to the Column5 EPM Education Center is now available for FREE when you
register for SAPInsider Financials 2012, BI 2012, or GRC 2012 in Milan.

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Educational and networking opportunities

More than 225 educational sessions and forums
Expand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants,
and your industry counterparts.

Pre-Conference Education Day

Take advantage of comprehensive sessions to build skills and increase your SAP financials knowledge.
Obtain best practices and hear the latest product updates. Attend introductory sessions if you are new
to SAP or SAP BusinessObjects™.

Ask-the-Experts
Sit down one-on-one with the leading experts to ask questions and get detailed,
authoritative answers.

Live financial solution demonstrations

See demonstrations and hear directly from SAP and leading vendors about financial innovations and
their impact on SAP applications you want to extend, develop, or introduce to your employees
and customers.

Customer-led case studies

Take away best practices and methodologies taught by the companies that practice them. Learn from
highly experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics.

Customer discussion forums

Hear about your peers’ projects, challenges, and ongoing initiatives during forums facilitated by an
expert moderator.

Exhibit hall receptions

Interact with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP and SAP BusinessObjects software.
Build a lasting network of peers and meet with leading product and service vendors.

Access to 4 conferences in 1 location

Financials 2012 is co-located with HR 2012, GRC 2012, and BI 2012. By registering for one conference,
you can attend sessions at all four SAPinsider conferences at no additional cost.

NEW! Column5 EPM Education Center

now takes place in conjunction with Financials 2012, GRC 2012, HR 2012, and BI 2012
Column5’s comprehensive curriculum helps SAP and BusinessObjects customers gain proficiency and make better use of SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance
management (EPM) solutions.
Sessions will include customer case studies, best practices, discussions, and live demos of SAP BusinessObjects EPM 10.0, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
(BPC — formerly OutlookSoft), profitability and cost management, strategy management, and more.

SAPinsider is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors.
State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry
of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org. If you have any concerns or complaints, please contact customer service at +1-781-751-8700.

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Education Day

Join us for Pre-Conference Education Day — Tuesday, 5 June

Special three-hour sessions that enable you to:
„ Fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions
„ Explore new trends and strategies
„ Enhance your learning experience at the main conference

By registering for Pre-Conference Education Day, you can:

„ Attend any sessions of interest to you
„ Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated
question-and-answer time
„ Receive exclusive take-home materials from all presentations
„ Gain online access to the session slides
„ Participate in a networking lunch with other attendees

Pre-Conference Education Day Sessions

Tuesday, 5 June

Morning sessions • 10.00 – 13.00 Page

The 2012 up-to-date guide to SAP BusinessObjects solutions for financial reporting, planning,
6
closes, and disclosures

Optimize end-to-end financial processes with the proper SAP system integration techniques 6

What’s new with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0 7

Comprehensive guidelines to speed data analysis using the analytical engines from SAP 7

Lunch • 13.00 – 14.30

Afternoon sessions • 14.30 – 17.30

2012 up-to-date guide to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 8

A comprehensive guide to speed payments and improve cash management 8

The 2012 guide to security remediation in your SAP system 9

Lessons for preparing, deploying, and optimizing SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0
9
— with minimal to no disruption to your existing SAP landscape

Pre-Conference Education Day continued on next page

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Morning Sessions • 10.00 – 13.00
The 2012 up-to-date guide to SAP
BusinessObjects solutions for financial
reporting, planning, closes, and disclosures
Antonio Gianelli, Franco Furlan, Olivier Delcourt, SAP; and Dr.
David Ormerod, SAP UK
10.00 – 13.00
This special three-hour session helps you understand what
the latest updates to SAP BusinessObjects solutions mean
to your financial teams, IT teams, business intelligence (BI)
teams, and end users
y Understand the complete set of options available to SAP
customers for:
– Financial reporting (formatting, printing, Web
enablement, and customization)
– Drill-down analytics
– Planning
– Closes and consolidations
– Dashboards
– Performance management
– Disclosures
y View demos that showcase key SAP BusinessObjects tools
and applications that support the above areas
y Obtain strategic guidelines for picking the right tool or
combination of tools for your specific financial reporting
requirements
y Assess the prerequisites, skills, and learning curve
required to leverage SAP and SAP BusinessObjects
solutions in a financials environment
y Evaluate new solutions for fast closes, streamlined
consolidations, and disclosure management
y Attendees of this session receive these exclusive
take-homes:
– A detailed matrix illustrating which tools address
specific challenges
– Up-to-date joint roadmaps for SAP NetWeaver®
Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) and
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solutions
– A comprehensive glossary of new terminology
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Pre-Conference
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Education Day
Optimize end-to-end financial processes with
the proper SAP system integration techniques
Naeem Arif, Turnkey Consulting
10.00 – 13.00
This comprehensive three-hour session will help you ensure
that your company’s financial processes aren’t compromised
due to poor integration or inconsistent data between SAP
modules. Obtain best practices for properly integrating:
– Financial accounting (FI)
– Managerial accounting (CO)
– Sales and distribution (SD)
– Materials management (MM)
– Human capital management (HCM)
– Project systems (PS)
– Plant maintenance (PM)
y Learn the best ways to maintain consistent data across
multiple modules for smoother financial processes, such
as order-to-cash and purchase-to-pay
y Obtain detailed, undocumented configuration steps that
ensure proper integration across these modules
y Determine how unique aspects of each module, such as
master data fields and specific processes, affect your
integration efforts
y Understand the purpose of the enterprise structure as an
enabler of good integration
y Examine the key configuration activities that drive
integration, such as automatic postings from other
modules
y Examine the dependencies and challenges that you need
to be aware of when integrating SAP modules

Morning Sessions • 10.00 – 13.00
What’s new with SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0
John Jerrehian, SAP Labs; Bruce McCuaig, Erin Hughes, and Jan
Gardiner, SAP
10.00 – 13.00
This three-hour session will provide an in-depth look at SAP
BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) 10.0
solutions, specifically highlighting the capabilities delivered
with the newest release.
y Understand the impact that latest access control, process
control, and risk management updates have on your
existing compliance programs
y Walk through migration scenarios and upgrade paths and
assess the benefits and limitations of each
y Learn new ways to save money by preventing fraud,
errors, and reducing audit costs
y Learn how to deploy continuous controls monitoring on a
single technology platform
y Hear firsthand how to unify all SAP BusinessObjects
Access Control capabilities on a standardized ABAP™
platform, offering enterprise supportability, granular
security, transport, and archiving
y Get tips for simplifying the provisioning process using
SAP Business Workflow technology
y Find out how to support a more flexible and tailored
access request and approver review process
y Simplify data transports and uploads with improved a
content life cycle management capabilities
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Pre-Conference
8
Education Day
Comprehensive guidelines to speed data
analysis using the analytical engines from SAP
Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT
10.00 – 13.00
This comprehensive three-hour session offers strategic advice
for leveraging data warehousing and analytical engines from
SAP to increase the speed and efficiency of data processing
and analysis.
y Step through examples and demos that explore the
analytical capabilities and requirements of each solution,
including:
– SAP HANA
– SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator
– SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
– SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
y Get evaluation criteria for mapping each solution to your
organization’s IT landscape and business requirements
y Identify the best ways to exploit key capabilities and
synergies, including integration considerations and
performance benchmarks
y Uncover technical considerations and prerequisites of an SAP
NetWeaver BW Accelerator deployment, such as hardware
sizing, network capacity, indexing and compression speed,
and day-to-day operational requirements
y Explore the most common use cases for SAP HANA,
including real-time data warehousing, dashboard
deployments, and landscape rationalization
y Discover how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
for unstructured analysis and exploration without the
need for queries or traditional data stores
y Examine three distinct ways to deploy OLAP tools within SAP
BusinessObjects Analysis — via Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
PowerPoint, or the Web interface — and get criteria to map
each approach to your analytical requirements
y Explore metrics and strategies to demonstrate the value
of your data warehousing and analytics effort to key
stakeholders
y Come away with a deep understanding of what these
solutions can do and when to use them

Afternoon Sessions • 14.30 – 17.30
2012 up-to-date guide to SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation
Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises
14.30 – 17.30
This special three-hour session explores the capabilities, trad-
eoffs, and requirements for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation — both the 7.5 and 10.0 releases,
as well as SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions.
y Gain a thorough overview of the functionality delivered
with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for:
– Business planning
– Budgeting
– Forecasting
– Financial reporting and analysis
y Understand how to properly integrate SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation with SAP
ERP, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP BusinessObjects BI
y Step through real-world scenarios that illustrate how to
increase productivity, reduce budget cycle times, adapt
to changing business and market conditions, and
improve statutory and regulatory reporting
y Explore key enhancements in the 10.0 and 7.5 releases of
both the version for SAP NetWeaver and the version for
the Microsoft platform, including native integration with
the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools
y Gain insight into the best ways to upgrade to release 10.0
if you are running previous releases
y Step through demos that illustrate a sample business
planning process, as well as the best ways to use SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for
consolidated reporting
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Pre-Conference
9
Education Day
A comprehensive guide to speed payments and
improve cash management
Boris Hipp, SAP
14.30 – 17.30
This important three-hour session examines the strategies,
challenges, and technologies you need to master in order to
streamline your treasury, risk, banking and cash management
activities. In this session you will:
y Get tips to enable the straight-through processing of your
banking, corporate treasury, and financial accounting
transactions and activities
y Examine the latest tools, enhancements, and functions, as
well as infrastructure and architecture enhancements in
SAP Treasury and Risk Management
y Learn how to generate comprehensive cash forecasts and
plans using SAP Cash and Liquidity Management
y Find out how to employ a global in-house bank using
SAP In-House Cash and a payment factory using SAP
Bank Communication Management
y Gather ideas to set up your treasury applications to
centrally monitor and track the status of payments,
banking balances, and cash management activities
y Take a critical look at what you need to set up direct bank
connectivity to the secure and reliable infrastructure of
the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication (SWIFT) Network
y Hear the latest developments regarding payment format
harmonization (CGI and ISO20022), along with advice to
leverage treasury functionality to support these initiatives
y Get a sneak peek at the latest treasury innovations such
as managing cash using SAP HANA™ and utilizing the
new SAP PayApprove application for the iPhone

Afternoon Sessions • 14.30 – 17.30
The 2012 guide to security remediation in your
SAP system
James Roeske, VanRiver Consulting
14.30 – 17.30
This three-hour session delves into the fundamental prin-
ciples and technical ins and outs of SAP security concepts,
tools, and specifically, the SAP BusinessObjects Access Con-
trol applications. Whether you are just beginning a security
remediation project or improving your existing security con-
figuration, by attending this session you will:
y Understand key compliance principles and
recommended business processes to maintain a safe,
secure, and compliant SAP environment
y Learn new and advanced techniques for leveraging
access control functionality to reduce the security
maintenance effort, gain greater flexibility, and diminish
the complexity of role management
y Hear how the experts leverage enterprise role
management functionality to build or improve standard
rule sets, cross-system rules, and cross-platform rules
y Identify ways to design or improve a role structure which
is compliant, practical, and sustainable, especially as
audits get tougher, security staffing is leaner, and budgets
are tighter
y Acquire lessons from numerous real-world large and
complex segregation of duties remediation projects
y Delve into the project planning phases and tasks that
need to be executed in a successful security project, and
what to focus on to stay one step ahead of auditors
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Pre-Conference
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Education Day
Lessons for preparing, deploying, and
optimizing SAP BusinessObjects Business
Intelligence 4.0 — with minimal to no
disruption to your existing SAP landscape
Thierry Audas, SAP and Ingo Hilgefort, SAP
14.00 – 17.30
This three-hour session provides a comprehensive overview
of critical factors that must be identified and addressed when
considering or executing an SAP BusinessObjects Business
Intelligence 4.0 implementation or upgrade in an existing
SAP landscape.
y Review architectural requirements for running
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 with SAP NetWeaver BW and
SAP Business Suite applications
y Learn what steps you need to take in your existing SAP
and/or SAP BusinessObjects environment to prepare for
an upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 — from a
technical, operational, and end-user perspective
y Ask questions directly to SAP about recent changes or
additions to the portfolio of SAP BusinessObjects BI
products, including SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
y Step through a demo that shows how SAP
BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solutions enable faster and more
efficient access to both SAP and non-SAP data sources
y Examine improved integration capabilities between
SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, SAP NetWeaver BW,
and SAP Business Suite applications
y Learn how to leverage the new SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis client to more efficiently analyze SAP NetWeaver
BW and other OLAP data sources on the Web and in
Microsoft Office
y Receive system design best practices for enhancing the
scalability and performance of your SAP BusinessObjects
BI 4.0 solutions deployed with SAP NetWeaver BW
y Leave this session with the knowledge to chart a practical
and effective short- and long-term BI strategy that
accounts for evolving business requirements, advances in
technology, and SAP product updates
 Track 1
Strategies for higher performing and
more cost-effective finance operations
Key lessons to scope, govern, and
build a roadmap for a global finance
transformation program
Mateus Begossi, Deloitte
This session offers concrete strategies for
planning a global finance transformation pro-
gram, measuring organizational performance
and leveraging SAP to transform the finance
function into a key strategic lever. Learn how
to apply a proven finance maturity model to
assess the state of its finance organization and
set goals for how to get to the next level
of maturity.Get tips for improving corporate
performance through the use of SAP analyt-
ics, SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and
compliance (GRC) solutions, and SAP Strate-
gic Enterprise Management. Walk through a
proven strategy for evaluating which SAP and
finance transformation projects will provide the
greatest benefit for the lowest price and risk.
An updated guide to the new
capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidaton 10.0
David Ormerod, SAP
Gain a thorough understanding of what’s new in
the latest release (10.0) of SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation for both the
version for the Microsoft platform, and the
version for SAP NetWeaver. See how leverag-
ing the in-memory computing capabilities of
SAP HANA and mobile technologies in conjunc-
tion with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation transforms planning and bud-
geting processes and increases organizational
agility. Reduce the learning curve and increase
your adoption rate of SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation with the new EPM
add-in for Microsoft Office and new Web 2.0
interface, which provide a familiar and easy to
use experience. Learn how new functionality
can help your organization automate variance
analysis — a task most companies have to
collect together from scattered sources and
calculate manually. Find out how other cus-
tomers are improving planning accuracy and
reducing planning cycle time using the latest
release.
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Explore the 2012 SAP roadmap for
its finance solutions
James Fisher and Birgit Starmanns, SAP
Take a guided tour of SAP’s portfolio of solu-
tions for the finance line of business. Hear how
these enhanced solutions help to address new
challenges in finance, such as meeting IFRS
and XBRL guidelines, and deliver incremen-
tal benefits designed to extend your existing
investments in SAP ERP Financials. Find out
what functionality is available to reduce the
cost of finance and free up time for value-
added activities. Get tips to improve service
levels by empowering your team with better
access to information. Learn how to complete
a compliant financial close with automated
reporting processes to improve confidence
in your data and your results. Step through
its roadmap for solutions that support critical
financial processes, including invoice to pay,
receivables management, treasury, financial
risk management, travel expense manage-
ment, and the financial close. Leave this session
with a thorough understanding of how to
leverage SAP’s solutions and achieve best-in-
class financial excellence.
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Case study
McKesson gleans greater financial
insights using dashboards and self-
service Web analytics
Ross Wilson, McKesson
This session explores McKesson’s deployment
of Xcelsius® and SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence® to meet its financial reporting
and analysis needs. Learn why McKesson chose
to leverage Xcelsius and SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence for its credit and dispute
management reports, and how the company
has leveraged SAP NetWeaver BW data stores
and InfoCubes to do so. Hear the top chal-
lenges faced by the McKesson team while
migrating financial reports from older sys-
tems to the newer solutions, such as ensuring
complete integration between SAP Busines-
sObjects and the SAP NetWeaver landscape
and implementing the latest SAP BusinessOb-
jects service pack. Understand how McKesson
optimized dashboard and report performance
by leveraging the BICS connector and the
query stripping feature within SAP Busines-
sObjects Web Intelligence. See samples of the
six summary dashboards used for high-level
analysis by the collections and accounts receiv-
ables (A/R) departments. Examine how the
team is able to drill down into self-service Web
analytics for more detailed data behind days
sales outstanding, dispute status, and more.
Track 1 continued on next page
 Track 1: Strategies for higher performing and more cost-effective finance operations
2012 guide to the SAP
BusinessObjects enterprise
performance management (EPM)
roadmap
Bryan Katis and David Williams, SAP
This session provides an overview of SAP
BusinessObjects enterprise performance man-
agement (EPM) 10.0 solutions and roadmap.
Understand how strategy management, plan-
ning and consolidation, and profitability and
cost management capabilities fit together and
complement each other. Find out how new
solutions for disclosure management can be
used to support mission critical compliance
processes. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects
EPM solutions fit into your existing SAP land-
scape, whether it includes SAP ERP, SAP
NetWeaver BW, or SAP BusinessObjects Busi-
ness Intelligence solutions, and discover how
your peers have leveraged these solutions to
deliver measurable business benefits. Get a
sneak peek into SAP’s future plans for its EPM
solutions, such as the addition of high-speed
analytics enabled by SAP HANA, on-demand
delivery options, and the ability to check on
performance from any mobile device.
Results of the most recent IBM
Global CFO Study: Insights for
improving financial performance
and lowering the cost of finance
Gianni Margutti, IBM Global Business Services
This insightful session sheds light on what
roughly 2,000 CFOs and senior finance lead-
ers from around the world are doing to survive
and thrive in an era of increased uncertainty.
Delve into the findings of IBM’s most recent
Global CFO Study to learn how respondents
are improving finance operations and lower-
ing the cost of finance. Find out how leading
finance organizations are gaining efficiencies
through four enablers — consistent informa-
tion standards, common processes, common
data definitions, and globally mandated data
standards. Examine the areas in which finance
organizations most frequently fall short, such
as enterprise risk management and mitigation,
information integration, and involvement with
enterprise strategy.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Strategies for achieving financial
excellence — cost-effectively —
using a shared services center
Ralph Schoepfer, SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG
Fragmented and inconsistent business pro-
cesses, along with inflexible technologies, can
inhibit both productivity and service respon-
siveness. Find out from a leading SAP executive
how the new SAP Shared Service Framework
can be leveraged to achieve significant cost
savings in the financials arena. Understand how
the framework can become the infrastructure
for more efficient communication between the
service center and its clients, improved com-
pliance with service-level agreements (SLA),
and more accurate, insightful reports to busi-
ness stakeholders. Learn how customers are
reaping benefits by standardizing and auto-
mating transactional services delivered by the
shared service organization. Learn how to turn
your organization into a more agile and lean
business center where financial administration
services are treated as core business processes,
and customer satisfaction goals are exceeded
by delivering the right services for the best
price. See how SAP Shared Service Framework
comes along with rapid-deployment solutions
(RDS) bringing together software and services
together in one offering to speed up your
implementation times.
A new way to improve the financial
end user experience in SAP
Janet Salmon, SAP
Take an up close look at the new user-friendly
applications SAP has created for the mainte-
nance of cost centers, internal orders, activity
types, and their hierarchies. Find out how to
use the new Floorplan Manager to config-
ure the user interfaces of those applications,
which enables you to personalize the screens
of end users. Learn how to work with the
SAP NetWeaver Business Client and how to
build roles to display the transactions and
reports that your end users already work with
alongside the new applications. Enhance the
existing transactions within these roles using
side panels to display pertinent information,
such as account details or attachments, along-
side the posting information. Get an up close
look at how SAP will be augmenting its road-
map with new applications for cost center
planning and order planning.
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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0:
Strategy, roadmap, and technical
considerations
Thierry Audas, SAP
This session provides specific examples of
how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 to
gain greater insight into your business, make
smarter decisions, and measure their results.
Examine key differences between business
intelligence and business analytics, and under-
stand how BI solutions can serve a broader
business analytics strategy. Learn how to
employ a common look and feel across inter-
nal and external SAP data sources with the
new common semantic layer. See how to use
event-driven data processing to better iden-
tify opportunities for customer engagement.
Gain insight into new and planned improve-
ments for Web reports and analyses, formatted
reporting, and dashboards. Become familiar
with the new SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
client for multidimensional ad hoc analysis of
OLAP data sources. Come away with a com-
prehensive understanding of SAP’s business
intelligence roadmap, with emphasis on where
BI fits into SAP’s broader business analytics
strategy.
Critical insights for improving your
financial application evaluation,
implementation, and improvement
efforts
Christian Titze, Gartner
Application leaders and project planners in the
financial domain deal with a number of com-
plex factors when it comes to the evaluation,
implementation, and improvement efforts of
their financial applications. Get a clear picture
of the six key areas that are affected from an
overall, technical, and business point of view,
which include the overall business, architec-
ture and infrastructure, operations, services
and support, workload, and an organization’s
business model. Learn what steps you can
take today to identify factors within each area
that can complicate your financial application
initiative, such as the effect of merger and/or
aquisition. Assess the potential impact these
factors can have on your financial application
throughout its life cycle. Take home a chart
which outlines these six areas and a listing of
factors that need to be taken into account for
each.
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 Track 1: Strategies for higher performing and more cost-effective finance operations
Enabling finance transformation
through innovation using SAP
HANA, enterprise mobility, and
cloud computing
Karuna Mukherjea, SAP
Today’s CFOs consider innovations as the
enabler for finance transformation and growth.
Explore how your finance organization can
benefit from the technology innovations in
SAP HANA, enterprise mobility, and cloud com-
puting. Take a closer look at the new solutions
and accelerators powered by SAP HANA such
as SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Con-
solidation, SAP CO-PA and FI-CO accelerators
that increase the productivity and efficiency of
your finance organizations. Learn how enter-
prise mobility technology from SAP provides
“insight at your fingertips.” Learn how your
organization can leverage mobile capabilities
to help transform your finance organization
and empower your business users to make
informed decisions in real-time. Take a closer
look at the new mobile applications for finance
executives and managers. Hear why cloud
computing matters to your finance organiza-
tion and find out what capabilities it provides
to help lower cost, enable easier collaboration,
and drive innovation.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Executive insights into the role of
the modern CFO
Elena Shiskina, SAP UK&I
The modern Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is
instrumental in influencing both people and
profit. The role of CFO encompasses setting
the strategic direction to navigate the business
towards sustainable growth. In this session,
listen in as Elena Shiskina, CFO, SAP UK&I will
discuss how you can sharpen your strategic
skills and fortify your position as your organisa-
tion’s valued business partner. Walk through
some of today’s most topical issues for current
and aspiring business leaders, including stra-
tegic planning, risk management, forecasting
tools and techniques.
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Managing finance and risk in the
financial service industry using SAP
BusinessObjects Enterprise
Performance Management and SAP
BusinessObjects GRC solutions
Henri Wajsblat and Satyen Paneri, SAP
Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Performance Management solutions can help
organizations within the financial service
industry meet and respond to their Basel II and
Solvency II reporting requirements by lever-
aging industry-specific content. Get detailed
advice on how to leverage SAP BusinessOb-
jects GRC solutions to respond to operational
risk management for both banking and insur-
ance in the context of Basel II and Solvency II
requirements. Obtain best practices for capi-
talizing on industry-specific taxonomies and
key risk indicators libraries within the SAP Busi-
nessObjects GRC 10.0. Walk through customer
examples and interactive demos that will arm
you with the tools you need to meet these crit-
ical regulatory requirements.
 Track 2
Financial accounting
Lessons for choosing the best SAP
financial ledger to meet your needs
Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
With more than a dozen financial ledger options
from SAP, choosing the best solution to meet
your needs can be challenging. Explore the dif-
ferent ledgers, including SAP General Ledger,
the special purpose ledger, and the material
ledger. Obtain expert guidance to choose the
best one for a specific task. Identify key criteria
that will affect your choice of ledger, including
how your organization currently stores data,
your reporting and training requirements, and
your current SAP ERP release. Find out which
ledgers you can and should use for consolida-
tion processes and which to use for business
segment reporting. Understand the impact
of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP
NetWeaver BW) on the overall reporting func-
tionality of SAP General Ledger. Take home a
matrix with complete details on each ledger, its
functionality, and how it works best, as well as
a list of key SAP Notes.
Overcoming the complexities of a
fixed asset migration project
Ross Boardman, Consultology Ltd
Fixed asset migration is a task that can strike
fear into any finance or project team. This
session offers detailed insight into a proven
methodology that was developed based on
real-world experience with numerous imple-
mentations that can be used to help your
organization simplify its fixed asset migra-
tion project. Find out what steps need to be
taken before you can migrate your asset data,
including running your asset load in test mode
before creating any data, as well as other
steps that need to be completed to prepare
your system. Hear firsthand what tools should
be used when migrating your master records
and transactional data and the importance
of testing in this process. Get tips for recon-
ciling your loaded data with the source data.
Gain expert guidance on what steps to take if
something goes wrong. Examine key criteria to
ensure that your project team is assigned the
appropriate tasks for the successful migration.
Take home a sample checklist that will walk
you through a successful fixed asset migra-
tion project.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Proven techniques for configuring
multiple currency types
Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems &
Software
Make sense of the different SAP options at your
disposal and the key questions you face when
configuring currency types, such as which cur-
rency type to use for a new special ledger,
how many currencies to configure for a com-
pany code in the general ledger, and what
currency to use as group currency. Learn to rec-
ognize how these decisions profoundly affect
SAP financial reporting activities and results.
Avoid the mistake of telling yourself that you
can always reconfigure currencies later. You’ll
learn how difficult and expensive these con-
figuration changes are once your system is
productive. Clarify the differences between
hard currency, index currency, group currency,
and global company currency. This session also
highlights the differences between the stan-
dard valuation, group valuation, and profit
center valuation options for company code
currency and group currency.
Expert advice for choosing the best
travel management solution from
SAP
Birgit Starmanns, SAP Marketing
Attend this session and explore the func-
tionality and options for utilizing SAP Travel
Management, whether OnPremise, OnDevice,
or OnDemand. Get best practices for stream-
lining the entire trip lifecycle from planning to
reimbursement. Find out what is new with the
OnPremise travel management application, as
well as how its travel expense capabilities can
be extended to a mobile device. Hear about
the new SAP Travel OnDemand solution, and
how it meets unique business traveler needs
through its ease of use and mobility. Take
guided tours of all three options, the benefits
of each, and decide which solution best meets
your need to contain travel costs and increase
compliance.
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Key strategies for shortening your
order-to-cash cycle
Naeem Arif, Turnkey Consulting
Attend this session and find out how to sup-
port and shorten your order-to-cash (OTC)
cycle by integrating financial accounting, sales
and distribution, accounts receivable (A/R), and
controlling functionality. Identify important
integration points between key documents
such as sales orders, billing documents,
accounting invoices, and customer payments.
Become familiar with the fields on the material
master that can be used to determine account-
ing and pricing. Step through the account
determination process and see how to con-
vert the billing document into the accounting
invoice. Identify ways to use the SAP General
Ledger to improve the order-to-cash cycle.
How to accelerate financial and
managerial accounting processes
using SAP HANA
Peter Himmighoefer and Ralf Humbert, SAP
Attend this session and learn how the lat-
est breakthrough in-memory technology
provided by SAP HANA can now be seam-
lessly integrated into your existing SAP ERP
system architecture without any disruption
to business or solution operations. Find out
what steps your organization can take to
both speed up and extend your current SAP
ERP managerial accounting, financial report-
ing, and critical period end close processes
using SAP HANA. This session will outline the
approach of such a non-disruptive adoption
of ERP applications using examples like CO-PA
(profitability analysis), CO-OM (overhead man-
agement), CO-PC-ACT (material ledger), and
FI-GL (general ledger). Find out what advan-
tages and benefits can be realized as the result
of using SAP HANA as a secondary database.
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 Track 2: Financial accounting
10 effective tips to maximize your
existing FI and CO landscape
Naeem Arif, Turnkey Consulting
Learn how to make the most of your invest-
ment in SAP functionality for financial
accounting and controlling. This session walks
you through 10 proven tips and techniques
that you can use to increase the value of your
FI and CO landscapes, without the need for
any new functionality or external consulting
assistance. Hear firsthand how these often
overlooked, yet simple and practical solutions
are set up in the SAP system without resorting
to complicated and expensive workarounds.
Learn how to default certain field values in the
customer and vendor master so that each new
record doesn’t require manual data entry. Find
out which settings to use in the general ledger
account master so that certain programs, such
as the new deferred tax program RFUMSV50,
can be run correctly. Learn how to transfer
financial accounting documents retroactively
into your profitability analysis functionality.
Take home advice on how to correct profit cen-
ter documents in SAP General Ledger.
A guide to transforming the travel
management process with new
functionality from SAP
Hartmut Laser, SAP AG
Receive a comprehensive overview of the
latest SAP Travel Management features and
functionality, including the new mobile,
reporting, and on-demand offerings. Step
through the business scenarios supported by
SAP Travel Management, including submitting
initial requests, travel planning, and submitting
and settling travel expenses. Gain an under-
standing of how the new functionality can
simplify integration with third-party online
booking tools and monthly expense report
submissions. Understand how to leverage the
integration between SAP ERP HCM and SAP
ERP Financials to improve travel policy com-
pliance, monitor out-of-policy bookings, and
optimize travel expense and settlement pro-
cesses. Walk through the product strategy and
roadmap for SAP Travel Management to find
out how new developments could affect your
company.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Case study
Bharat Petroleum’s approach to
integrating SAP Travel
Management with SAP ERP
Financials to streamline processes
and reduce expenses
Anand Tejuja, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd
Find out how and why Bharat Petroleum Cor-
poration Limited (BPCL), the second-largest oil
company in India with 14,200 employees, and
456 locations, chose to integrate SAP Travel
Management with SAP ERP Financials funds
management to achieve greater and more real-
time budget control. See how BPCL is able to
enforce budget controls on travel costs within
available budget and consolidate travel book-
ings. Take a look at the company’s approach
to linking travel agents into the travel process
through a portal while maximizing discounts
from airlines and travel agents. Find out how
BPCL created customized workflows to stan-
dardize its complex travel approval process.
Explore how the company fully integrated the
travel management process with its off-cycle
payroll process so employees could be reim-
bursed for travel expenses via SAP Payroll. Find
out how BPCL has realized a cost reduction of
nearly $1 million in annual travel expenses,
primarily due to this integrated travel manage-
ment system.
Prevent assets from becoming a
liability using SAP Asset
Retirement Obligation
Management
Jens Kram, SAP AG
Companies that manage long life fixed assets
are many times obligated to account for the
retirement costs well in advance of the retire-
ment itself. This detailed session provides a
close look at the new SAP Asset Retirement
Obligation Management tool available for cal-
culating asset retirement obligations (ARO).
Find out how SAP Asset Retirement Obligation
Management is integrated with the necessary
components of SAP ERP Financials such as the
general ledger, FI-AA, and lease accounting
(FILA). Maintain the ability to keep up with and
support different accounting principles with
functionality to manage up to eight separate
accounting valuations for a single ARO. Walk
through examples from real-world implemen-
tations and understand key challenges faced
and best practices to overcome them.
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Case study
How Sonae Industria utilizes a
shared service model to streamline
its invoice posting, reconciliation,
and payment processes
Sérgio Mota, Sonae Industria
Examine how Sonae Industria optimized its
accounts payable invoice posting process
through the use of a shared service center
(SSC). Find out how the company reduced the
number of invoices posted manually, cut down
the time to process inter-company invoices,
and how it now posts almost all invoices
automatically — both cross-company and
inter-company. Hear how the SSC allows for
the completion and automation of the entire
accounts payable cycle for all of its corporate,
commercial and recurrent fees resulting from
both its order-to-cash to accounts payable
postings. Learn how the company increased
the posting quality and reduced the group’s
month-end backlog. Explore some of the ben-
efits Sonae Industria has realized, such as a
quicker internal cash transfer between coun-
tries and a month-end close that contains
nearly no inter-company discrepancies. Walk
through the company’s method to automate
invoice postings between SAP and non-SAP
legal companies. Learn how to block pay-
ments that cannot be validated, saving time
for the really important tasks, such as making
payments more efficiently. Take home a config-
uration guide based on Sonae Industria’s A/P
optimization process.
 Track 3
Managerial accounting and controlling
Case study
Improving the actual costing
process at Aselsan
Sibel Kaplan and Mesut Karaman, Aselsan
Attend this session for a firsthand look at how
Aselsan, a producer of tactical military radios
and defense electronic systems, performs
actual costing in the SAP material ledger cost-
ing cockpit. Learn the sequence of steps the
company takes to both customize and per-
form its period-end closing activities using
manufacturing orders with full settlement as
its costing object. Understand how Aselsan
utilizes a “cycle” concept in its material led-
ger and how doing so affects the calculation
of its periodic material prices. Find out what
methods the company used to rework its poor-
qualified products and the consequences of
these methods from both a logistics and cost-
ing perspectives. Take away a document that
outlines Aselsan’s methods for determining
periodic unit prices within its material led-
ger and how the company accounts for price
fluctuations and “not allocated” and “not dis-
tributed” variances.
Expert guidance to improve cost of
sales accounting
Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
Do you fully understand the best ways to
use core SAP ERP Financials functionality to
optimize cost of sales accounting? This ses-
sion walks through detailed steps to help
you optimally configure this functionality for
your needs. Learn how to record cost of sales
against actual sales at a granular level. Find
out how to activate a cost of sales ledger. Com-
pare the pros and cons of using substitution
rules versus cost center categories. Learn why
many companies have chosen to implement
a functional area approach for cost of sales
accounting. See how functional area fields are
updated in the general ledger. Get transaction
codes for standard SAP reports with settings
to view data by functional area, and see how
to pull the functional area field into the rele-
vant reporting library to create reports using
the report painter tool. Take home sample
financial statement reports, user guides, and
configuration screenshots to help guide your
own efforts.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Make your material ledger
activation hassle-free
Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
Learn the correct sequence of steps required
to activate the material ledger in an SAP sys-
tem that is already up and running. Find out
what’s required to convert your parallel cur-
rency, parallel valuation, and actual costing
data to be compatible with the material led-
ger. Gain insight into how to detect (and
correct) materials management and general
ledger accounting errors in order to perform
a successful conversion. Determine how to
overcome the challenges of converting a large
volume of material master, production order,
and purchase order data. Evaluate key con-
version strategies that will shorten conversion
windows, minimize your system downtime,
and spread the conversion load across your
available system resources.
How to accelerate financial and
managerial accounting processes
using SAP HANA
Peter Himmighoefer and Ralf Humbert, SAP
Attend this session and learn how the lat-
est breakthrough in-memory technology
provided by SAP HANA can now be seam-
lessly integrated into your existing SAP ERP
system architecture without any disruption
to business or solution operations. Find out
what steps your organization can take to
both speed up and extend your current SAP
ERP managerial accounting, financial report-
ing, and critical period end close processes
using SAP HANA. This session will outline the
approach of such a non-disruptive adoption
of ERP applications using examples like CO-PA
(profitability analysis), CO-OM (overhead man-
agement), CO-PC-ACT (material ledger), and
FI-GL (general ledger). Find out what advan-
tages and benefits can be realized as the result
of using SAP HANA as a secondary database.
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Best practices for inter-company
sales order processing in your SAP
system
Sandeep Bagchi, NTT Data
Walk through the core building blocks for
implementing and configuring inter-company
sales order processing in your SAP system.
Understand the different entities involved
in processing an inter-company sales order,
including delivery, customer billing, inter-com-
pany billing, and automated EDI postings.
Solidify your knowledge of the fields in the
customer and vendor master that are required
for posting correct financial entries. Learn the
basic design requirements for using IDocs and
the information required to maintain the differ-
ent output types, including logical addresses,
account assignment configuration, and cre-
ation of partner profiles for both customers
and vendors. Gain insight on how to enhance
the pricing in sales and distribution to deter-
mine the correct departure and destination
country for the tax condition types. Under-
stand the tax implication of VAT registration
between ordering and delivering country. Take
home configuration examples, a list of rel-
evant master data and SAP Notes, sample
code to derive the inter-company vendor, tax
derivation flow diagram for customer and
inter-company billings, and tips to better use
the IDoc monitoring tools within SAP.
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 Track 3: Managerial accounting and controlling
Guidelines and technologies to
accurately manage and accelerate
profitability and cost analysis
Karuna Muhkerjea and Jérémie Brunet, SAP
This session describes how to leverage SAP
Profitability and Cost Management to define
the blueprint for maximizing profitabil-
ity, reducing costs and optimizing resources.
Drive a deeper understanding of true costs,
which help serve as a basis for critical decisions
around profitability, margin management,
pricing strategies, merchandising plans, distri-
bution activities, and customer service. Learn
how to empower the decision makers with
the simulation and scenario modeling options
to understand the impact of key decisions on
the profitability of the company. Attend this
session and learn the best practices of profit-
ability management that organizations have
implemented using SAP Profitability and Cost
Management.
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17
10 effective tips to maximize your
existing FI and CO landscape
Naeem Arif, Turnkey Consulting
Learn how to make the most of your invest-
ment in SAP functionality for financial
accounting and controlling. This session walks
you through 10 proven tips and techniques
that you can use to increase the value of your
FI and CO landscapes, without the need for
any new functionality or external consulting
assistance. Hear firsthand how these often
overlooked, yet simple and practical solutions
are set up in the SAP system without resorting
to complicated and expensive workarounds.
Learn how to default certain field values in the
customer and vendor master so that each new
record doesn’t require manual data entry. Find
out which settings to use in the general ledger
account master so that certain programs, such
as the new deferred tax program RFUMSV50,
can be run correctly. Learn how to transfer
financial accounting documents retroactively
into your profitability analysis functionality.
Take home advice on how to correct profit cen-
ter documents in SAP General Ledger.
 Track 4
Closings and consolidations
Case study
How Airbus SAS’ new, centralized
finance system effectively supports
multiple subsidiaries across Europe
Philipp Visotschnig, Airbus SAS
Explore the steps taken by Airbus SAS to
ensure that its financial and IT infrastructure
supports all of its sites and subsidiaries across
Europe. Learn how the company’s demand for
a clear set of business requirements to sup-
port its current IT investments has resulted
in a company-wide initiative to better inte-
grate local SAP-based financial systems, deliver
leaner financial processes, and better serve
the business through new financial standards.
Hear examples that illustrate how the com-
pany developed a new, centralized, financial
platform that consists of a unified accounting
system as well as unified rules and procedures.
Find out how Airbus SAS closes the gaps that
can commonly exist between finance and IT
departments by involving key stakeholders
from both areas in any critical decisions. Delve
into how the company was able to speed up
the monthly availability of data for a faster
close without sacrificing quality. Come away
with an understanding of how Airbus SAS’s
strategy has led to more effective reports,
consistent data, and faster closes across all its
subsidiaries.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
18
Getting started with SAP starter
kits: Your first step toward
accelerating the financial close
Franco Furlan, SAP and Antonio Giannelli, SAP
France
This session introduces you to the starter kits
from SAP that are now available to help you
accelerate your group financial closing pro-
Case study
cesses. Learn how pre-configured content can
help your organization streamline its imple- New lessons from Zurich Financial
mentation of SAP solutions for EPM, lower total Services’ journey to a fast close
cost of ownership of your enterprise perfor- across 400 global subsidiaries
mance management solutions, and comply Thomas Wagner, Zurich Insurance Group
with the latest financial regulations. Receive
expert advice to assess your organization’s read- Find out how Zurich Financial Services success-
iness to adopt a solution like the IFRS starter fully achieved a faster financial close process
kit. Get information about the correspondent through better consolidation and reporting
rapid deployment solution. Look at features across 400 global subsidiaries. Learn how the
for the consolidation starter kit such as input company rolled out business consolidation
documents, rules, control reports, and financial systems (SEM BCS) functionality to over 1,000
statements. Come away with tips to identify and users worldwide and standardized reporting
avoid costly solution management and devel- activities using SAP NetWeaver BW. Examine
opment challenges when implementing SAP Zurich Financial Services’ methods for aggre-
solutions for EPM. gating, reconciling, and consolidating its
financial data and automatically generating
transparent financial statements and manage-
Expert recommendations to
ment reports, providing both managers and
increase the speed, efficiency, and their CFO with the confidence to sign off on
quality of your financial close process financial results. Find out why the use of a
Stefan Karl, SAP AG portal as an information delivery mechanism
eliminated the need to roll out SAP Business
Examine how the new release of SAP Financial
Explorer (SAP BEx) functionality to every user,
Closing cockpit supports you in planning, exe-
saving the company significant time and
cuting, monitoring, and analyzing all entity close
money. Assess the company’s method for con-
tasks. Understand how to use its enterprise auto-
solidating multiple charts of accounts (CoA)
mation component for further reducing manual
into a single, common CoA that became the
work and errors. Hear firsthand how to enable
backbone of the company’s consolidation and
peer-to-peer reconciliations and information shar-
reporting process.
ing in real time to identify and resolve problems
early and cut delays at corporate and divisional
levels. Discover a proven approach to reconcile
balances or invoices via the Web, allowing you
to close your books faster. Learn how to create
harmonized financial master data like accounts,
companies, profit centers, or cost centers that is
stored centrally and then distributed toward mul-
tiple accounting and consolidation systems. Find
out how to configure workflow approvals for
master data change requests, and have full trans-
parency in your financial close process.
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 Track 4: Closings and consolidations
SAP’s 2012 guide to financial
consolidation solutions
Carolyn Stephens, SAP and Antonio Giannelli,
SAP France
Receive a detailed overview of the most recent
enhancements to financial consolidation
solutions from SAP BusinessObjects, and an
outlook on SAP’s strategy and planned inno-
vations. Learn how additional functionality in
SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation
and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Con-
solidation can improve your financial closes
and consolidations for IFRS, local GAAP report-
ing, or parallel accounting standards. Learn
how these solutions support legal statuary
consolidation and management reporting.
Learn what functionality is available to map
data from SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP
to SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolida-
tion. Come away with real-world lessons from
successful SAP customers and a good under-
standing of how to evaluate and choose the
right SAP financial consolidation solution to
meet your needs.
Accelerate the publication of your
financial statements using
disclosure management
functionality
Franco Furlan, SAP and Antonio Giannelli, SAP
France
Attend this session for an overview of the SAP
Disclosure Management solution. Get tips for
reducing the time, risk, and cost of regula-
tory disclosures, including financial statement
production and XBRL filings. Learn about the
impact this has on the “last mile” of finance
as part of a fast and efficient financial close
from source transaction to digital disclosure.
Hear about the collaborative process that facil-
itates an auditable, compliant workflow for
the production and approval of both finan-
cial and non-financial regulatory statements
and disclosures. Get an understanding of the
regulatory mandates which require companies
to file financial results in the XBRL (eXtensible
Business Reporting Language) format such as
20F, e-Bilanz, Solvency II Pillar III, and find out
about preconfigured content that helps you
accelerate your implementation. Understand
how SAP Disclosure Management seamlessly
integrates with both SAP and non-SAP consoli-
dation environments. See a demonstration of
the solution, and hear about what is new in its
latest release.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Expert techniques for making the
most of the SAP Financial Closing
cockpit
Sandeep Bagchi, NTT Data
Attend this session for best practices to suc-
cessfully implement the SAP Financial Closing
cockpit to increase the quality and speed of
your financial closing processes using automa-
tion and task flow functionality. Walk through
some of the key business drivers for imple-
menting the SAP Financial Closing cockpit,
including the ability to establish a shared, uni-
form interface where all periodic activities can
be documented and made transparent and
available to the business. Step through exam-
ples that illustrate how to leverage this solution
to provide a structured interface for executing
transactions and complex financial business
processes, such as period closing schedules,
using both standard templates and work lists.
Walk away with tips to more efficiently moni-
tor your entire closing status and drill-down
into your organization’s important financial
closing details.
How to overcome weaknesses and
inefficiencies in the account
reconciliation process for a faster
close
Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems and Stefan
Karl, SAP
Maintaining multiple sets of accounting stan-
dards, including IFRS, GAAP, or statutory
accounts, creates an even more onerous bur-
den on companies when closing the books
each month. Attend this session and learn how
to overcome the complexities associated with
the account reconciliation process to help your
organization achieve a quicker, more accu-
rate financial close process. Learn what steps
to take to minimize the amount of manual
labor required for each financial close. Find
out how to create a foundation for evaluating
business performance, supporting organiza-
tional decisions, satisfying external reporting
requirements, and complying with new regu-
lations and multiple standards. Walk through
real-world examples that illustrate how other
companies improve the accuracy and timeli-
ness of compliance reporting, and reporting
standards requirements.
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Case study
Inside Mota-Engil Group’s
continuous improvement of its
consolidation process across global
entities
João Fonseca de Almeida, Mota-Engil
Get an insider’s view of key lessons Mota-
Engil Group has derived since completing its
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consoli-
dation implementation project. Identify the
business drivers that sparked the organization’s
decision to move its planning and consolida-
tion activities to SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver,
including its need for diversification-based
growth across its global environment. Hear
firsthand how the company has fully integrated
and connected the tool to its SAP ERP systems
and SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Manage-
ment solution. Learn how the company has
taken the next step with regards to planning
and consolidation and has added automated
data loading to its environment. See what
steps the company is taking to continuously
improve its consolidation environment includ-
ing integration with planning.
How to speed up the month-end
close time and achieve more
financial productivity gains using
SAP HANA
Andrea Giovanni Durante, IBM Global Business
Services
Identify the key financial business drivers for
leveraging SAP HANA within your finance
organization. This session arms you with
tips for using SAP HANA to help shorten the
amount of time spent on month-end closes
and achieve financial productivity gains. Learn
how react quickly to critical business needs
utilizing SAP HANA functionality to immedi-
ately post and check books during the critical
month-end closing period. Find out how SAP
HANA quickly accesses just the data you need,
reducing the size of SAP NetWeaver BW data
loads. Get tips for avoiding system overwork,
assuring data quality, and simplifying sys-
tem management during the financial close.
Explore use case scenarios for deploying SAP
HANA to the period-end close process within
your organization.
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 Track 4: Closings and consolidations
A step-by-step guide to build a
financial close process acceleration
roadmap
Giovanni Perone, PwC
Companies face increased pressure to pro-
vide higher quality information faster and
more efficiently. However, with converging
financial reporting standards from FASB and
IASB, higher expectations of transparency
from banks, and increased scrutiny from the
investment community, this is becoming more
difficult to achieve. Get tips for building a finan-
cial close process acceleration roadmap that
is customized to fit the needs and require-
ments of your organization. Walk through a
proven methodology for speeding up your
closing cycle with lessons for aligning your
reporting objectives with the overall strategy
of the organization and steps for identifying
enhancement opportunities that may exist
within the close and reporting cycle. Exam-
ine a finance maturity model, and determine
where your organization lies on the curve, and
what steps you can take to become a more
optimized financial organization. Take home
copies of PwC’s third annual finance effective-
ness benchmarking study and report on PwC’s
research study on financial planning.
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20
Case study
Streamlining the chart of accounts
at McKesson improves financial
reporting and achieves faster closes
Ross Wilson, McKesson
Attend this session for an in-depth review
of how McKesson cleaned up the company’s
existing chart of accounts and company code
structure. Hear what steps of the project the
company has completed and how taking these
steps will help the company more accurately
report on financial activities across the entire
organization. Learn how the company tailored
its SAP chart of accounts design to meet the
challenges of multiple reporting regulations
such as US GAAP, IFRS, and other local statu-
tory requirements. Understand which tools
the company uses alongside the SAP Gen-
eral Ledger, including SAP NetWeaver BW and
SAP BusinessObjects to meet legal and man-
agement reporting requirements. Find out
what challenges the company has faced with
regards to managing its master data integra-
tion and hierarchy design activities. Leave this
session with a list of critical success factors
for more effectively maintaining the chart of
accounts at your own organization.
 Track 5
Planning, forecasting, and budgeting
Lessons for more streamlined and
effective planning and budgeting
using SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation
Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises
This session illustrates the most important
planning and forecasting scenarios within
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consoli-
dation and offers tips to help you achieve
more streamlined and effective planning. Step
through examples and get best practices to
build and execute the following planning
scenarios: top down distributions, sales and
operations planning (S&OP), cost center alloca-
tions, and account transformations. See how to
use the spread modeling function to allocate
values across destination cells, such as months
of the year. Learn how to use the adminis-
tration console to add master data to your
planning scenario. Observe an annual budget-
ing process as executed via the Microsoft Excel
user interface. Find out how to compare actu-
als to forecasts within SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation. Understand how
to perform key financial calculations such as
allocations and distributions.
A detailed guide to planning
solutions from SAP
Muthu Ranganathan, SAP
Walk through the new roadmap for SAP’s plan-
ning solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation, SAP NetWeaver
BW integrated planning, and more. See what
SAP’s vision is for integrated business planning
and what future plans and enhancements are
in store for its planning solutions. Learn how
to utilize SAP tools to streamline sales, reve-
nue, cash flow, and other planning processes.
Find out how to perform what-if analysis and
scenario planning, which enables your organi-
zation to model different scenarios that assess
potential future outcomes to better determine
a preferred course of action. Find out what
support SAP offers for driver-based planning.
Learn how to utilize other planning options in
SAP controlling including profitability analysis
and demand management.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
21
Case study
Inside Purdue Pharma’s
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation implementation
project
Arvind Sahu, Purdue Pharma
Identify the business drivers that sparked
Purdue Pharma’s decision to migrate from
SEM-BPS to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and New technologies and guidelines to
Consolidation, version for the Microsoft plat- improve the financial budgeting
form, including security features that control process
access to sensitive data like salary information. Olivier Delcourt, SAP
Gain insight into how the company struc-
tured its implementation project team and This session walks you through the steps to
effectively communicated between the busi- improve the budgeting process and ensure
ness and IT. Explore how Purdue Pharma uses that budgets are aligned with organizational
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida- strategy. Get tips to communicate plans and
tion to meet its capital planning requirements, objectives, align business units, and allo-
including cost center, internal order, profit cate resources to key priorities, while actively
center, capital, and compensation. Get best monitoring and reporting on progress, and pro-
practices and lessons learned for integrating actively taking action when issues arise within
SAP data into SAP BusinessObjects Planning your budgeting initiative. Hear what functional-
and Consolidation, including how to map ity is available in SAP BusinessObjects Planning
SAP data to planning structures. Hear how and Consolidation in conjunction with SAP
the company uses BPMNConnect for com- BusinessObjects Strategy Management to bet-
plex field-to-field mapping and business rules. ter manage and gain insight into your financial
Take home documentation on how to design budgeting activities. Learn how to develop
more strategic budgeting initiatives and mon-
and develop input templates and reports in
itor specific key performance indicators and
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-
tion, version for the Microsoft platform. milestones, such as if your project is completed
late and over budget. See a demo of how SAP
Live demo BusinessObjects Strategy Management can be
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and used to manage initiatives that align directly to
Consolidation expenses tracked in SAP BusinessObjects Plan-
ning and Consolidation.
Kris Van Delm, SAP
Attend this product demonstration for a first-
hand look at the functionality available in
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-
tion 10.0. See for yourself how this application
can help to streamline the planning, budget-
ing, and forecasting process and can enable
a faster close. Find out how this application
is built and designed to be owned and man-
aged by business users. There will be ample
opportunity to ask questions of a leading SAP
product expert about the new capabilities and
future direction of SAP BusinessObjects Plan-
ning and Consolidation.
Track 5 continued on next page
 Track 5: Planning, forecasting, and budgeting
Case study
How Sulzer migrated input and
report templates from SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation 7.0 to the 10.0
version
Mark Sapey and Rodolphe Huynh, Sulzer
Attend this session and learn how Sulzer was
able to migrate existing input templates and
reports from SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation 7.0 to SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation 10.0. Rather than
recreating them, find out how the company
replaced outdated EV functions with the new
enterprise performance management func-
tions in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation. Although old function names
are still supported, understand why Sulzer, in
order avoid future confusion, developed a pro-
cess to replace the old function names with the
new names in both Excel workbooks and VBA,
which led to over 40 replacements in work-
books, and 250 replacements in VBA. Find out
what tools were used to automate the migra-
tion of the templates between the versions
enabling them to avoid the need for time-con-
suming manual work on a core library of about
1,000 templates.
New strategies and technologies to
analyze and understand financial
data for improved cash
management and forecasting
Christian Mnich, SAP AG
Companies need to understand their cash flow
minute-to-minute in order to determine what
kind of investments to make, how to man-
age payment schedules, and which strategic
initiatives to undertake. This session offers an
overview of solutions from SAP that enable
you to rapidly analyze high volumes of cash-
related data. Gain an understanding of SAP
HANA, a high-speed analytics tool, and how it
can be used to generate more comprehensive
analytics that can improve reporting and fore-
casting. Get best practices for automating cash
management activities, such as bank-to-bank
transfers, electronic payment file generation,
and electronic bank statement processing.
Find out how to drill down to a very gran-
ular level of payment process data in order
to understand individual customer payment
behaviors at a new level.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Case study
Streamlining, shortening, and
aligning planning cycles with
corporate goals at T-Systems
Gerhard Wilhelmi, T-Systems
Hear a firsthand account of how T-Systems
has increased profitability and simplified its
planning and forecasting processes using
pre-defined modules in SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation. Walk through
T-Systems’ implementation project, begin-
ning with its initial project preparation stages
through go-live. Hear firsthand how the com-
pany was able to tightly link its business
process flows to the data and processes that
support its planning and budgeting activities.
See for yourself how T-Systems is now able to
develop more timely and accurate plans and
budgets that align with the company’s goals.
Take home tips, critical lessons learned, and
examples of modular planning scenarios to
guide your organization’s implementation.
An updated guide to the new
capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidaton 10.0
David Ormerod, SAP
Gain a thorough understanding of what’s new in
the latest release (10.0) of SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation for both the
version for the Microsoft platform, and the
version for SAP NetWeaver. See how leverag-
ing the in-memory computing capabilities of
SAP HANA and mobile technologies in conjunc-
tion with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation transforms planning and bud-
geting processes and increases organizational
agility. Reduce the learning curve and increase
your adoption rate of SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation with the new EPM
add-in for Microsoft Office and new Web 2.0
interface, which provide a familiar and easy to
use experience. Learn how new functionality
can help your organization automate variance
analysis — a task most companies have to
collect together from scattered sources and
calculate manually. Find out how other cus-
tomers are improving planning accuracy and
reducing planning cycle time using the latest
release.
22
Business planning intelligence: Key
lessons to streamline your
organization’s planning, budgeting
and forecasting processes
Anurag Tambe, Infosys
This session provides new perspective on
what intelligence today’s business planners
expect from planning solutions such as on-
the-fly calculations, what-if simulations, and
qualitative information processing. Obtain
detailed instruction to streamline your organi-
zation’s planning, budgeting, and forecasting
processes. Get introduced to a rich library of
planning automation tools from SAP Busi-
nessObjects Planning and Consolidation for
SAP NetWeaver in the form of business rules,
BADI, and script logic. Learn how to creatively
leverage these to build best-in-class planning
features that provide an intuitive planning
view to business users. Walk through key les-
sons to automate manual activities, enable
advanced forecasting capabilities, create an
integrated planning process, and ensure data
quality and consistency of your organization’s
KPI definitions. Find out what standard out-of-
the-box functions are available and know how
you can flexibly customize them to fulfill your
unique business requirements. Get to know
the new features available in SAP planning
tools and how it can help you move towards
a robust planning architecture. Take home a
step-by-step design guide to transform your
planning process solutions to fulfill business
planner needs.
 Track 6
SAP General Ledger
Simplify postings of business
transactions to the general ledger
with these automatic account
determination techniques
Naeem Arif, Turnkey Consulting
Attend this session for detailed instruction to
set up account determination tables that link
business transaction objects to your SAP Gen-
eral Ledger accounts. Learn how setting up
these tables will enable you to post transac-
tions from other modules to the general ledger
with ease. Understand the main tables and
master data that accounts are assigned to and
how to trace any errors or inconsistencies back
to the originating source. Walk through some
of the most common mistakes that are made
when configuring account assignments, such
as using the wrong cost element category on
a revenue related account, which should be
passed to CO-PA. Get tips to create and assign
new general modifiers and account keys in the
materials management and sales and distribu-
tion modules. Learn the best way of setting up
account determination for areas such as travel
management and the material ledger in order
to classify accounts more specifically to the
business situation. View a demo that illustrates
how to run a report that clearly shows where
accounts have been automatically assigned.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
23
Lessons for overcoming the top
challenges of a migration to SAP
General Ledger
Giovanni Perone, PwC
In this session, find out why and how to circum-
vent some of the most common challenges
associated with migrations to the latest release
of the SAP General Ledger. Obtain tips for
Live demo
setting up parallel ledgers to meet the require-
ments of IFRS, local GAAP, and tax GAAP. New features and functionality in
Mitigate project risk with best practices to SAP General Ledger
utilize segmented reporting which integrates Stefan Karl, SAP
your segment postings and reporting in SAP
Attend this live demonstration session to
functionality for financial accounting. Find
explore the latest functionality available in
out how to ensure data and process integrity
the SAP General Ledger and evaluate whether
when designing and setting up parallel ledger.
or not migrating should be a consideration
Learn how using the latest release of the SAP
for your organization, or if you have already
General Ledger enables the real time align-
migrated, if you are utilizing its full potential.
ment between your financial and managerial
Learn how the SAP General Ledger supports
accounting procedures.
parallel accounting through the use of paral-
lel ledgers and parallel accounts. See how to
utilize SAP’s new profit center reorganization
to automate and more easily shift those struc-
tures and responsibilities. There will be ample
opportunity to ask questions of an SAP prod-
uct expert.
 Track 7
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation
Optimizing the end user experience
with SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation reports and
analyses
Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises
When it comes to financial planning and
consolidation, reporting is key. This session
provides detailed instruction for leveraging
complementary SAP BusinessObjects solutions
to ensure accurate, user-friendly reports and
analyses. Navigate a decision tree to identify
the pros and cons of two distinct reporting
strategies, by leveraging SAP BusinessObjects
BI solutions in conjunction with SAP Busines-
sObjects Planning and Consolidation or by
utilizing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver,
Excel client. Step through demonstrations that
illustrate how to leverage the reporting tools
native to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, including SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation for Excel, Word,
PowerPoint, and Live Reporting. Assess the
strengths and limitations of using specific
SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions with SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-
tion, including Xcelsius®, SAP Crystal Reports®
and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®.
Map each of these reporting tools to specific
report types, including profit and loss, balance
sheets, and cash flow. Understand your options
for report customization — such as embed-
ding an Xcelsius dashboard within your SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
workbook — to meet your unique financial
reporting requirements.
Live demo
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation
Kris Van Delm, SAP
Attend this product demonstration for a first-
hand look at the functionality available in
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-
tion 10.0. See for yourself how this application
can help to streamline the planning, budget-
ing, and forecasting process and can enable
a faster close. Find out how this application
is built and designed to be owned and man-
aged by business users. There will be ample
opportunity to ask questions of a leading SAP
product expert about the new capabilities and
future direction of SAP BusinessObjects Plan-
ning and Consolidation.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Business planning intelligence: Key
lessons to streamline your
organization’s planning, budgeting
and forecasting processes
Anurag Tambe, Infosys
This session provides new perspective on
what intelligence today’s business planners
expect from planning solutions such as on-
the-fly calculations, what-if simulations, and
qualitative information processing. Obtain
detailed instruction to streamline your organi-
zation’s planning, budgeting, and forecasting
processes. Get introduced to a rich library of
planning automation tools from SAP Busi-
nessObjects Planning and Consolidation for
SAP NetWeaver in the form of business rules,
BADI, and script logic. Learn how to creatively
leverage these to build best-in-class planning
features that provide an intuitive planning
view to business users. Walk through key les-
sons to automate manual activities, enable
advanced forecasting capabilities, create an
integrated planning process, and ensure data
quality and consistency of your organization’s
KPI definitions. Find out what standard out-of-
the-box functions are available and know how
you can flexibly customize them to fulfill your
unique business requirements. Get to know
the new features available in SAP planning
tools and how it can help you move towards
a robust planning architecture. Take home a
step-by-step design guide to transform your
planning process solutions to fulfill business
planner needs.
24
Case study
Streamlining, shortening, and
aligning planning cycles with
corporate goals at T-Systems
Gerhard Wilhelmi, T-Systems
Hear a firsthand account of how T-Systems
has increased profitability and simplified its
planning and forecasting processes using
pre-defined modules in SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation. Walk through
T-Systems’ implementation project, begin-
ning with its initial project preparation stages
through go-live. Hear firsthand how the com-
pany was able to tightly link its business
process flows to the data and processes that
support its planning and budgeting activities.
See for yourself how T-Systems is now able to
develop more timely and accurate plans and
budgets that align with the company’s goals.
Take home tips, critical lessons learned, and
examples of modular planning scenarios to
guide your organization’s implementation.
Track 7 continued on next page
 Track 7: SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Case study
How Sulzer migrated input and
report templates from SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation 7.0 to the 10.0
version
Mark Sapey and Rodolphe Huynh, Sulzer
Attend this session and learn how Sulzer was
able to migrate existing input templates and
reports from SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation 7.0 to SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation 10.0. Rather than
recreating them, find out how the company
replaced outdated EV functions with the new
enterprise performance management func-
tions in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation. Although old function names
are still supported, understand why Sulzer, in
order avoid future confusion, developed a pro-
cess to replace the old function names with the
new names in both Excel workbooks and VBA,
which led to over 40 replacements in work-
books, and 250 replacements in VBA. Find out
what tools were used to automate the migra-
tion of the templates between the versions
enabling them to avoid the need for time-con-
suming manual work on a core library of about
1,000 templates.
Lessons for more streamlined and
effective planning and budgeting
using SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation
Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises
This session illustrates the most important
planning and forecasting scenarios within
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consoli-
dation and offers tips to help you achieve
more streamlined and effective planning. Step
through examples and get best practices to
build and execute the following planning
scenarios: top down distributions, sales and
operations planning (S&OP), cost center alloca-
tions, and account transformations. See how to
use the spread modeling function to allocate
values across destination cells, such as months
of the year. Learn how to use the adminis-
tration console to add master data to your
planning scenario. Observe an annual budget-
ing process as executed via the Microsoft Excel
user interface. Find out how to compare actu-
als to forecasts within SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation. Understand how
to perform key financial calculations such as
allocations and distributions.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Case study
Inside Mota-Engil Group’s
continuous improvement of its
consolidation process across global
entities
João Fonseca de Almeida, Mota-Engil
Get an insider’s view of key lessons Mota-
Engil Group has derived since completing its
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consoli-
dation implementation project. Identify the
business drivers that sparked the organization’s
decision to move its planning and consolida-
tion activities to SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver,
including its need for diversification-based
growth across its global environment. Hear
firsthand how the company has fully integrated
and connected the tool to its SAP ERP systems
and SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Manage-
ment solution. Learn how the company has
taken the next step with regards to planning
and consolidation and has added automated
data loading to its environment. See what
steps the company is taking to continuously
improve its consolidation environment includ-
ing integration with planning.
SAP’s 2012 guide to financial
consolidation solutions
Carolyn Stephens, SAP and Antonio Giannelli,
SAP France
Receive a detailed overview of the most recent
enhancements to financial consolidation
solutions from SAP BusinessObjects, and an
outlook on SAP’s strategy and planned inno-
vations. Learn how additional functionality in
SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation
and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Con-
solidation can improve your financial closes
and consolidations for IFRS, local GAAP report-
ing, or parallel accounting standards. Learn
how these solutions support legal statuary
consolidation and management reporting.
Learn what functionality is available to map
data from SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP
to SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolida-
tion. Come away with real-world lessons from
successful SAP customers and a good under-
standing of how to evaluate and choose the
right SAP financial consolidation solution to
meet your needs.
25
An updated guide to the new
capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidaton 10.0
David Ormerod, SAP
Gain a thorough understanding of what’s new in
the latest release (10.0) of SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation for both the
version for the Microsoft platform, and the
version for SAP NetWeaver. See how leverag-
ing the in-memory computing capabilities of
SAP HANA and mobile technologies in conjunc-
tion with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation transforms planning and bud-
geting processes and increases organizational
agility. Reduce the learning curve and increase
your adoption rate of SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation with the new EPM
add-in for Microsoft Office and new Web 2.0
interface, which provide a familiar and easy to
use experience. Learn how new functionality
can help your organization automate variance
analysis — a task most companies have to
collect together from scattered sources and
calculate manually. Find out how other cus-
tomers are improving planning accuracy and
reducing planning cycle time using the latest
release.
Improve the quality of cash flow
reports using account
transformation and currency
translation business rules
John Cerqueira, Reliable Technical Solutions
Learn how to automate your cash flow report-
ing activities to improve report quality and
reduce your time to close. This session arms
you with expert advice for setting up account
transformation and currency translation busi-
ness rules using SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation on both a consolidated
and non-consolidated level. Find out how the
use of account transformation business rules
can provide the ability to use the value of
one account in different areas of your finan-
cial reports. Discover how to calculate values
for a cumulative currency translation adjust-
ment which then automatically determines the
effect a change in exchange rate will have your
company’s cash reports. Take home examples
of local currency and group currency financial
statements, including cash flow statements.
Track 7 continued on next page
 Track 7: SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
New technologies and guidelines to
improve the financial budgeting
process
Olivier Delcourt, SAP
This session walks you through the steps to
improve the budgeting process and ensure
that budgets are aligned with organizational
strategy. Get tips to communicate plans and
objectives, align business units, and allo-
cate resources to key priorities, while actively
monitoring and reporting on progress, and pro-
actively taking action when issues arise within
your budgeting initiative. Hear what functional-
ity is available in SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation in conjunction with SAP
BusinessObjects Strategy Management to bet-
ter manage and gain insight into your financial
budgeting activities. Learn how to develop
more strategic budgeting initiatives and mon-
itor specific key performance indicators and
milestones, such as if your project is completed
late and over budget. See a demo of how SAP
BusinessObjects Strategy Management can be
used to manage initiatives that align directly to
expenses tracked in SAP BusinessObjects Plan-
ning and Consolidation.
For more information and to register, visit www.sapfinancials2012.com/milan or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
2012 guide to the
SAP BusinessObjects enterprise
performance management (EPM)
roadmap
Bryan Katis and David Williams, SAP
This session provides an overview of
SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance
management (EPM) 10.0 solutions and road-
map. Understand how strategy management,
planning and consolidation, and profitability
and cost management capabilities fit together
and complement each other. Find out how
new solutions for disclosure management can
be used to support mission critical compliance
processes. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects
EPM solutions fit into your existing SAP land-
scape, whether it includes SAP ERP, SAP
NetWeaver BW, or SAP BusinessObjects Busi-
ness Intelligence solutions, and discover how
your peers have leveraged these solutions to
deliver measurable business benefits. Get a
sneak peek into SAP’s future plans for its EPM
solutions, such as the addition of high-speed
analytics enabled by SAP HANA, on-demand
delivery options, and the ability to check on
performance from any mobile device.
26
Case study
Inside Purdue Pharma’s
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation implementation
project
Arvind Sahu, Purdue Pharma
Identify the business drivers that sparked
Purdue Pharma’s decision to migrate from
SEM-BPS to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, version for the Microsoft plat-
form, including security features that control
access to sensitive data like salary information.
Gain insight into how the company struc-
tured its implementation project team and
effectively communicated between the busi-
ness and IT. Explore how Purdue Pharma uses
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-
tion to meet its capital planning requirements,
including cost center, internal order, profit
center, capital, and compensation. Get best
practices and lessons learned for integrating
SAP data into SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation, including how to map
SAP data to planning structures. Hear how
the company uses BPMNConnect for com-
plex field-to-field mapping and business rules.
Take home documentation on how to design
and develop input templates and reports in
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-
tion, version for the Microsoft platform.
 Track 8
Financial reports, analyses, and
business intelligence
Case study
Streamlining the chart of accounts
at McKesson improves financial
reporting and achieves faster closes
Ross Wilson, McKesson
Attend this session for an in-depth review
of how McKesson cleaned up the company’s
existing chart of accounts and company code
structure. Hear what steps of the project the
company has completed and how taking these
steps will help the company more accurately
report on financial activities across the entire
organization. Learn how the company tailored
its SAP chart of accounts design to meet the
challenges of multiple reporting regulations
such as US GAAP, IFRS, and other local statu-
tory requirements. Understand which tools
the company uses alongside the SAP Gen-
eral Ledger, including SAP NetWeaver BW and
SAP BusinessObjects to meet legal and man-
agement reporting requirements. Find out
what challenges the company has faced with
regards to managing its master data integra-
tion and hierarchy design activities. Leave this
session with a list of critical success factors
for more effectively maintaining the chart of
accounts at your own organization.
Lessons for rolling out a financial
dashboard that supports your most
critical decisions
Anurag Barua, Strata-Gems Consulting &
Solutions
In today’s era of globalization, high levels of
competition, and slow economic growth, compa-
nies worldwide need an ability to view their key
financial performance indicators on a frequent
basis and be able to make quick decisions. Dash-
boards provide a most effective mechanism to
do so. This session provides best practices on the
process of gathering requirements for your finan-
cial dashboards across a diverse cross-section of
stakeholders. Understand the key ingredients of
an effective financial dashboard which include
both content and style. Receive a comparative
analysis of the various SAP dashboard tools and
applications and the pros and cons of using
each. Get an overview of some of the best design
practices related to using SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards, formerly known as Xcelsius. Receive
valuable recommendations for implementing
and rolling out a financial dashboard solution..
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Improve financial analysis with an
integrated BI and performance
management environment
Andrew Joo, IBM Global Business Services
This session offers best practices for integrat-
ing your SAP BusinessObjects solutions for BI,
EPM, and EIM to create a more unified and com-
prehensive view of your organization’s strategic,
financial, and operational information. Examine
the real-world (and role-based) use case sce-
narios for this integrated environment, such
as enabling multi-dimensional profit and loss
statements, profitability- and driver-based
reporting capabilities, and “what-if” analysis.
Learn how to analyze actual, budget, and fore-
cast data at all levels of granularity by leveraging
SAP BusinessObjects EPM solutions, including
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-
tion, alongside SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions,
such as Xcelsius (now SAP BusinessObjects Dash-
boards)andSAPBusinessObjectsWebIntelligence.
Acquire strategies for optimal semantic layer
design, and explore the top technical consid-
erations behind data modeling, management,
and quality assurance when integrating
SAP BusinessObjects solutions for BI, EPM,
and EIM.
How emerging developments with
VAT can affect your SAP systems
and financial reports
Kees van Westerop, Kwest Consulting &
Education
Get a thorough understanding of how proce-
dures required by the European Union Value
Added Tax (EU VAT) affect your business and
financial processes. Identify common miscon-
ceptions surrounding VAT, including those
measures that need to be taken with pro-rata
VAT and deferred VAT. Understand when to
apply pro-rata VAT and how to set it up and
integrate it into the financial accounting (FI)
module. Learn how to customize your finan-
cial accounting application to meet different
VAT policies and the implications on your tax
reporting processes. Learn how to handle VAT
and tax jurisdiction codes within one com-
pany code.
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Optimizing the end user experience
with SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation reports and
analyses
Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises
When it comes to financial planning and
consolidation, reporting is key. This session
provides detailed instruction for leveraging
complementary SAP BusinessObjects solutions
to ensure accurate, user-friendly reports and
analyses. Navigate a decision tree to identify
the pros and cons of two distinct reporting
strategies, by leveraging SAP BusinessObjects
BI solutions in conjunction with SAP Busines-
sObjects Planning and Consolidation or by
utilizing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and
Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver,
Excel client. Step through demonstrations
that illustrate how to leverage the reporting
tools native to SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation, including SAP BusinessOb-
jects Planning and Consolidation for Excel,
Word, PowerPoint, and Live Reporting. Assess
the strengths and limitations of using spe-
cific SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions with
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-
tion, including Xcelsius®, SAP Crystal Reports®
and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®.
Map each of these reporting tools to specific
report types, including profit and loss, balance
sheets, and cash flow. Understand your options
for report customization — such as embed-
ding an Xcelsius dashboard within your SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
workbook — to meet your unique financial
reporting requirements.
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 Track 8: Financial reports, analyses, and business intelligence
Improve the quality of cash flow
reports using account
transformation and currency
translation business rules
John Cerqueira, Reliable Technical Solutions
Learn how to automate your cash flow report-
ing activities to improve report quality and
reduce your time to close. This session arms
you with expert advice for setting up account
transformation and currency translation busi-
ness rules using SAP BusinessObjects Planning
and Consolidation on both a consolidated
and non-consolidated level. Find out how the
use of account transformation business rules
can provide the ability to use the value of
one account in different areas of your finan-
cial reports. Discover how to calculate values
for a cumulative currency translation adjust-
ment which then automatically determines the
effect a change in exchange rate will have your
company’s cash reports. Take home examples
of local currency and group currency financial
statements, including cash flow statements.
Increase your proficiency with the
report painter tool to overcome
complex financial reporting
challenges
John Cerqueira, Reliable Technical Solutions
Learn how your counterparts leverage the
report painter within their SAP ERP report-
ing landscapes, and take a detailed look at
the techniques that have proven to be most
valuable. Determine when the report painter
provides a more efficient, cost-effective alter-
native to custom ABAP report development.
Step through an example that shows you how
to create a financial statement with report
painter. Learn how to set up currency trans-
lations so that you can run and view single
reports in multiple currencies while controlling
the exchange rate. Get tips to properly main-
tain your reporting libraries, currency exchange
rate tables, and currency settings, and find out
why this is critical to running multi-currency
reports. Gain greater proficiency working with
variables and user exits.
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Case study
McKesson gleans greater financial
insights using dashboards and self-
service Web analytics
Ross Wilson, McKesson
This session explores McKesson’s deployment
of Xcelsius® and SAP BusinessObjects Web
Intelligence® to meet its financial reporting
and analysis needs. Learn why McKesson chose
to leverage Xcelsius and SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence for its credit and dispute
management reports, and how the company
has leveraged SAP NetWeaver BW data stores
and InfoCubes to do so. Hear the top chal-
lenges faced by the McKesson team while
migrating financial reports from older sys-
tems to the newer solutions, such as ensuring
complete integration between SAP Busines-
sObjects and the SAP NetWeaver landscape
and implementing the latest SAP BusinessOb-
jects service pack. Understand how McKesson
optimized dashboard and report performance
by leveraging the BICS connector and the
query stripping feature within SAP Busines-
sObjects Web Intelligence. See samples of the
six summary dashboards used for high-level
analysis by the collections and accounts receiv-
ables (A/R) departments. Examine how the
team is able to drill down into self-service Web
analytics for more detailed data behind days
sales outstanding, dispute status, and more.
The coming sovereign debt crisis,
the future of financial reporting and
the impact of proper depreciations
on economic recovery
Dr. Juergen Ott, Former CFO, Allianz
Listen in as Juergen Ott, former CFO of Allianz
Switzerland & former lead manager of Allianz
group’s finance transformation, shares his per-
spective on the past history and future outlook
for accounting and reporting. Examine both
the facts and the speculation about the coming
biggest sovereign debt crisis in history and the
effects it will have on both, the trading activi-
ties of businesses across the globe and their
reporting. Understand the cause-and-effect
relationship that exists between the state of
(post-) recession economy and the account-
ing, financial, and risk reporting regulations
businesses have to comply with. Learn how
an unsound and improper assets and liabilities
valuation today lead to negative implications
for the recovery of the economy. Understand
the key role that depreciation plays in prevent-
ing such outcomes. Leave this session with an
up-to-date look at how your reporting pro-
cesses will be affected by the coming currency
reforms eventually due in 2015-2017.
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How to implement a robust power
user program for your BI users
Anurag Barua, Strata-Gems Consulting &
Solutions
This session provides lessons for leveraging
power users to create and maintain effective
end user training strategies, including tips
for boosting user adoption and streamlining
change management processes.Explore crite-
ria to help determine whether a power user
program might work well for specific groups
of end users. Identify the role of power users
in the requirements-gathering process, includ-
ing the importance of identifying the features,
functionalities, and data they require to satisfy
their ad hoc needs up front. Understand when
(and when not) to involve power users in the
testing phases of a BI initiative. Come away
with actionable advice to organize, support,
and train power users to minimize the develop-
ment impact on your user community.
Case study
How The Schwan Food Company
streamlined enterprise-wide
analytics and increased visibility
into business operations
Karthik Palanisamy, The Schwan Food Company
This session explores the processes and tools
deployed by The Schwan Food Company to
enable enterprise-wide analytics, including
critical steps and considerations to determine
and optimize a BI strategy and roadmap. Get
lessons from the company on scoping and
requirements gathering, including the steps it
took to ensure that the needs of four distinct
business units — consumer brands, food ser-
vice, home service, and global supply chain
— were represented and met. See how The
Schwan Food Company leverages a self-ser-
vice portal to ensure decisions are based on
the most accurate and up-to-date informa-
tion. Understand the importance of hierarchy
reporting, and get tips for deploying it in SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Gain insight
into how the company reached agreement and
set policy on a common look, feel, and navi-
gation path for its enterprise dashboards and
reports. Step through demos of The Schwan
Food Company’s department-specific dash-
boards — from food services to supply chain
— for insight into how they provide immedi-
ate business value to the enterprise.
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 Track 8: Financial reports, analyses, and business intelligence
The role of SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis in your self-service BI
strategy
Alexander Peter, SAP
Gain insight into the SAP vision and strategy
for positioning SAP BusinessObjects Analysis,
edition for Microsoft Office, as an alternative
to SAP BEx Analyzer, edition for OLAP as the
successor of SAP BusinessObjects Voyager.
Examine technical prerequisites, platform capa-
bilities, and roadmap details for both editions.
Discover how this new BI solution can be used
to smoothly transition your user population
from the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) to
the SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions. See how
it can be used to increase self-service BI usage
and business user autonomy while minimiz-
ing TCO. Explore use case scenarios to see how
you can fully leverage previous investments in
SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BEx query design,
even if you are migrating to SAP BusinessOb-
jects BI. Learn about its interoperability with
various SAP in-memory processing technolo-
gies, such as SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator.
Get a sneak peek at the latest version, SAP Busi-
nessObjects Advanced Analysis, which enables
advanced, multidimensional analysis.
A comprehensive guide to
analytical capabilities embedded
within SAP Business Suite
Alexis Sarat, SAP
Explore the scope and value of embedded
analytics in SAP Business Suite 7 Innovations
2010, and step through detailed demos and
examples that explore the reporting and dash-
boarding capabilities delivered. Step through
use case scenarios — such as extracting data
from ALV to SAP Crystal Reports for printout
and formatting purposes — to derive greater
insight into your business operations. Get an
overview of all the business analytics con-
tent included and pre-configured within SAP
Business Suite embedded analytics, such as
pre-defined SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Busi-
nessObjects Dashboards for finance, human
capital management, and customer relation-
ship management (CRM) reporting. Become
familiar with various integration scenarios
available for embedded analytics within the
SAP Business Suite to understand how they will
fit within your overall BI landscape.
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Unleash the power of your
Microsoft Excel-based reporting
environment with SAP BEx and
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
Joerg Boeke, BI Analyst GmbH
Obtain best practices to accelerate Microsoft
Excel-based report execution and distribution
in SAP NetWeaver BW, including tips to activate
the proper server-side and client-side parame-
ters. Explore new ways to reduce Excel file size
for improved report distribution. Gain insight
into which Excel habits hinder report perfor-
mance. Step through a demo that shows how
to create a simple planning application based
on native Excel features that integrates with
the SAP NetWeaver BW InfoProvider. See when
it makes sense to leverage Microsoft add-ons
like PowerPivot to enable enhanced analyti-
cal capabilities without the need for hardware
optimization solutions. Explore performance-
enhancing Excel features, such as the individual
refresh option for single queries when using
multiple queries in a workbook. Step through
a demo that shows how to leverage Microsoft
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) commands
to speed up reporting on the client side. Take
home a customized Excel template with Micro-
soft VBA for SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)
and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis.
Guidelines for integrating
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 with
SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW
Andreas Krause, SAP
This session provides a technical overview of
the integration options for SAP BusinessOb-
jects 4.0 with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW.
Understand technical prerequisites for getting
started with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and
explore key differences between integrating
various tools, from SAP BusinessObjects Dash-
boards, to SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis. Get an over-
view of data connectivity options for seamless
integration with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver
BW, including required software and available
data sources. Receive updates on the integra-
tion capabilities of solutions such as SAP BEx
query designer and SAP Solution Manager.
Learn how to connect to and leverage your
existing metadata in SAP BusinessObjects BI
4.0, and evaluate new options for user man-
agement and content life cycle management.
Gain insight into support levels for existing
metadata in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW
across an SAP BusinessObjects landscape.
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Case study
Shell International BV’s field-tested
techniques for designing executive-
level performance management
reports and dashboards
Simon Robb, Shell International BV
Attend this session for a behind-the-scenes look
at how Shell International BV creates perfor-
mance management reports and dashboards
for over 4,000 managers worldwide with SAP
BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver BW.
Review some of the top technical challenges
the company faced when integrating SAP Busi-
nessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius)
with SAP NetWeaver BW, such as determin-
ing the “right” number of characteristics in the
queries. Get tips for ensuring consistent dash-
board design across a global enterprise, and
learn how integrated commentary and data
write-back capabilities can help. Explore the
rapid application development (RAD) design
approach taken by the Shell International BV
team to maximize self-service capabilities and
minimize dashboard development time. See
demonstrations of some of the company’s cus-
tom-developed functionality improvements,
such as dynamic charting.
The 2012 guide to mobile
BI technology from
SAP BusinessObjects
Waldemar Adams, SAP
In today’s highly mobilized workforce, the
need for timely business intelligence (BI) does
not end when your people leave the office.
This session examines how to leverage SAP
BusinessObjects mobile BI capabilities to sup-
ply mobile workers with real-time visibility into
their project schedules, available resources,
and key performance indicators (KPIs). Get
practical advice for delivering the right tar-
geted analytics to your mobile workers to
ensure that these align with your organiza-
tion’s budgets and plans. Find out how to get
analyses and critical alerts on mobile devices to
make more informed decisions faster, and take
action on decisions no matter where you are.
Step through live demos to see how users can
drill down and interact with familiar reports
and metrics, change underlying data, and trig-
ger remote actions. Walk through the SAP
BusinessObjects mobile analytics roadmap
and technology strategy, including informa-
tion on how SAP BusinessObjects mobile BI
apps are integrated into SAP’s on-demand
platform strategy.
 Track 9
Data management
A new and comprehensive guide to
the SAP data warehousing roadmap
and strategy
Antonio Alvarez, SAP
This session offers a guided tour of data ware-
housing solutions from SAP — including SAP
HANA, SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP NetWeaver
BW Accelerator, and Sybase IQ — and provides
lessons for leveraging them to decrease data
latency and accelerate response time. Get eval-
uation criteria and strategic advice to map the
various data warehousing options from SAP to
your organization’s unique IT landscape and
business requirements. Examine technical pre-
requisites, platform capabilities, and roadmap
details for each solution. Explore the best ways
to exploit the capabilities and synergies —
including distinct integration points between
SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver BW — between
these various data foundations. Hear SAP’s
vision and strategy towards in-memory com-
puting and understand how it impacts existing
SAP NetWeaver BW customers, as well as the
overall SAP data warehousing roadmap.
Achieving a best-practice
data warehouse by integrating
SAP BusinessObjects and Sybase IQ
Joshua Fletcher, ASG Group
This session examines how to move past the
traditional data warehouse by integrating SAP
BusinessObjects BI and SAP BusinessObjects
EIM functionality with Sybase IQ for a high-
performing analytic platform. Get a system
architecture overview — including insight into
the data flow process — and learn how to
exploit key integration points between Syb-
ase IQ, SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, and
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services 4.0. Step
through a live demo that shows how to use
SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to load data
into Sybase IQ and then pass it to SAP Busines-
sObjects BI 4.0 front end analysis tools. Get tips
for getting the most out of Sybase IQ as your
data warehouse solution, including key con-
siderations for SAP BusinessObjects developers
(such as how to use the universe with Sybase IQ
most effectively). Take home sample code such
as SQL scripts, data services jobs and an SAP
BusinessObjects universe.
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10 universe design best practices
using the new information design
tool
Joshua Fletcher, ASG Group
Get an architecture overview and examine the
ways in which semantic layer delivered with SAP
BusinessObjects BI 4.0 affects data connectivity
and universe creation. Explore the new multi-
layer universe design capabilities. Examine key
differences between the new information design
tool and the previous Business Objects universe
design tool, and find out what’s required to con-
vert existing universes to the information design
tool .UNX format. Learn how new functionality
in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 — such as multi-
source universes, context and alias use, and data
profiling — can be leveraged for improved uni-
verse security and performance. Step through
live demos that show how to leverage the new
information design tool to develop and pub-
lish dimensional and multi-source universes. Find
out when it makes sense to use multi-source uni-
verses instead of data warehousing; for example,
when requiring operational and real-time data
federation. Know your options for joining data-
base tables and get criteria to help determine
when to use a context versus an alias to resolve
loops.
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Best practices for achieving
enterprise wide data management,
governance and integrity
Marco Van Horck, KPMG Advisory
This session examines best practices for deliv-
ering trusted data to improve your business
processes, feeding your reports and dash-
boards, and making informed business
decisions. Acquire proven strategies for adapt-
ing your data management practices for
optimal accuracy, integrity, quality, and effi-
ciency. Explore new approaches to prevent
some of the leading causes of data inaccura-
cies, including disparate source systems and
transformation, loading, and inconsistent data
entry. Explore three distinct master data man-
agement processes that ensure high data
quality — consolidation, harmonization, and
central MDM — and review unique use cases
for each. Take home a document outlining
best practices for creating an enterprise-wide
data management strategy within your own
organization.
 Track 10
Cash management and treasury
Tips for managing collections and
dispute resolutions via a central
shared service center
Ralph Schoepfer, SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG
This session provides guidelines for leverag-
ing rapid deployment solutions from SAP to
speed your implementation of SAP Collec-
tions and Dispute Management. Learn how to
quickly deploy important functionality such
as electronic customer billing, tracing and col-
lecting of outstanding receivables, and related
workflows. Identify the system requirements
for using a rapid deployment approach. See
how rapid deployment compares to traditional
implementation approaches. Hear the benefits
that SAP focuses on with rapid deployment.
Maximize discounts and reduce
overall spend using dynamic
discounting functionality
Bertram Meyer, Taulia
Attend this session and learn how Discounts-
as-a-Service (DaaS) combines a broad list
of factors in real time to maximize discount
amounts and lower total spend. Learn how
applying dynamic discounts can result in sig-
nificantly improved discount capture rates for
large buyers while at the same time help-
ing their suppliers to reduce working capital.
Understand the core criteria that determine
whether dynamic discounting will be effective
for your company. Hear firsthand, real-world
experiences gained from numerous advanced
discount management projects at Fortune 500
companies. Learn how dynamic discounting
can triple the average discount capture rate by
extending the discount opportunity to invoices
that originally don’t offer discount terms. Find
out how dynamic discounting works within
your current accounts payable process and
how it provides an opportunity for accounts
payable automation.
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31
A detailed guide to treasury
functionality and enhancements
from SAP
Christian Mnich, SAP AG
With the increasing importance of cash and
liquidity, and the introduction of new and
more complex statutory regulations, trea-
sury activities are now more critical than
How to increase visibility into and
ever. This session offers a guide to the most
improve control of your
recent updates to treasury applications from
SAP. Explore the newest features and func-
organization’s cash and liquidity
tions planned for SAP enhancement package position
6, as well as infrastructure and architecture Wouter Muijs, Long Run Finance
enhancements such as support of mobile
Learn how to secure and standardize your
devices and high-speed analytics. Identify new
organization’s cash management processes
ways to optimize handling of incoming bank
using SAP solutions for cash and liquidity. Find
statements, monitoring cash flow, and fore-
out how to gain more visibility into your cur-
casting liquidity. Learn how to ensure liquidity
rent and future cash requirements and global
with compliant payment processes. Examine
cash positions. Learn how to develop more
the best ways to handle financial transactions
timely and accurate forecasts and achieve bet-
from deal capturing to accounting. Addi-
ter control over your global cash balances.
tionally, gain insights on how to analyze and
Find out what analytics and reporting features
mitigate financial risks to help you make more
are available in SAP Cash and Liquidity Man-
effective treasury decisions.
agement, giving management the ability to
make more informed decisions and manage
New strategies and technologies to cash more effectively. Get expert tips to gain
analyze and understand financial more control over your organization’s accounts
data for improved cash receivables so the amount and timing of criti-
management and forecasting cal cash flows aren’t compromised. Examine
Christian Mnich, SAP AG strategies to improve working capital and sig-
nificantly lower your costs for external funding.
Companies need to understand their cash flow
minute-to-minute in order to determine what
kind of investments to make, how to man-
age payment schedules, and which strategic
initiatives to undertake. This session offers an
overview of solutions from SAP that enable
you to rapidly analyze high volumes of cash
related data. Gain an understanding of SAP
HANA, a high-speed analytics tool, and how it
can be used to generate more comprehensive
analytics that can improve reporting and fore-
casting. Get best practices for automating cash
management activities, such as bank-to-bank
transfers, electronic payment file generation,
and electronic bank statement processing.
Find out how to drill down to a very gran-
ular level of payment process data in order
to understand individual customer payment
behaviors at a new level.
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 Track 10: Cash management and treasury
Step-by-step advice to streamline
your SAP Cash and Liquidity
Management implementation
project
Wouter Muijs, Long Run Finance
This presentation offers a master plan to set
up a liquidity planning framework to bet-
ter analyze your cash-related processes and
improve your organization’s cash and liquidity
position. Walk step-by-step through config-
uration processes, and learn how to include
business partners, bank accounts, and inflows/
outflows of cash in your configuration plan.
View demos and hear how other customers
have successfully implemented SAP Cash and
Liquidity Management to accelerate receipts
and control expenditures to optimize control
of working capital. Find out what key steps
need to be taken in order to adequately extend
your cash visibility and monitoring all the way
to sales orders and purchase orders. Get tips
on how to troubleshoot implementation issues
that are often encountered when integrat-
ing SAP treasury applications with each other,
as well as with other modules like financial
accounting (FI), and with external banks and
other financial institutions.
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32
Key tactics for automating outgoing
bank payments
Kees van Westerop, Kwest Consulting and
Education
The electronic bank transfer is the most com-
monly used method for automatic outgoing
payments across Europe. Get tips and tricks to
optimize the usage of the automatic outgoing
payment program. SAP provides several meth-
ods for automatic outgoing payments, some of
which are less known and often more complex
but perhaps more efficient. Get an understand-
ing of alternative methods for the electronic
bank transfer. Learn how to utilize payment
requests to perform ad hoc payments and how
they can be configured in SAP. Find out how to
set up and use the bill of exchange method,
where the open item is only cleared once the
payment is confirmed by a bank statement.
Come away with an understanding of how
payment orders can fulfill this business require-
ment and see what the consequences of using
payment orders are in the accounts payable
system and cash management.
 Track 11
Multi-national finance, compliance, and
risk management
Results of the most recent IBM
Global CFO Study: Insights for
improving financial performance
and lowering the cost of finance
Gianni Margutti, IBM Global Business Services
This insightful session sheds light on what
roughly 2,000 CFOs and senior finance lead-
ers from around the world are doing to survive
and thrive in an era of increased uncertainty.
Delve into the findings of IBM’s most recent
Global CFO Study to learn how respondents
are improving finance operations and lower-
ing the cost of finance. Find out how leading
finance organizations are gaining efficiencies
through four enablers — consistent informa-
tion standards, common processes, common
data definitions, and globally mandated data
standards. Examine the areas in which finance
organizations most frequently fall short, such
as enterprise risk management and mitigation,
information integration, and involvement with
enterprise strategy.
Proven techniques for configuring
multiple currency types
Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & Software
Make sense of the different SAP options at your
disposal and the key questions you face when
configuring currency types, such as which cur-
rency type to use for a new special ledger,
how many currencies to configure for a com-
pany code in the general ledger, and what
currency to use as group currency. Learn to rec-
ognize how these decisions profoundly affect
SAP financial reporting activities and results.
Avoid the mistake of telling yourself that you
can always reconfigure currencies later. You’ll
learn how difficult and expensive these con-
figuration changes are once your system is
productive. Clarify the differences between
hard currency, index currency, group currency,
and global company currency. This session also
highlights the differences between the stan-
dard valuation, group valuation, and profit
center valuation options for company code
currency and group currency.
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33
Integrate multiple compliance
activities into a unified, enterprise-
wide compliance program
Marco Geisenberger, Protiviti
Learn how to integrate risk management, inter-
nal control, compliance, IT, and internal audit
functions with an enterprise-wide compliance
framework built on the latest version of SAP
BusinessObjects GRC solutions. Understand How emerging developments with
how implementing such a framework can help VAT can affect your SAP systems
your organization comply with both external and financial reports
requirements and internal policies while proac-
tively controlling the financial, operational, and Kees van Westerop, Kwest Consulting &
other business risks within your organization. Education
Learn how to standardize your existing risk Get a thorough understanding of how proce-
and control frameworks and risk management dures required by the European Union Value
processes and map them to workflows and Added Tax (EU VAT) affect your business and
data objects within your system. Learn how financial processes. Identify common miscon-
to avoid challenges of configuring your risk ceptions surrounding VAT, including those
management system, setting up risk manage- measures that need to be taken with pro-rata
ment processes, and eliminating segregation VAT and deferred VAT. Understand when to
of duties (SoD) conflicts. Take home a detailed apply pro-rata VAT and how to set it up and
sample project timeline. integrate it into the financial accounting (FI)
module. Learn how to customize your finan-
Lower compliance costs and cial accounting application to meet different
improve efficiency by leveraging VAT policies and the implications on your tax
your internal control system (ICS) reporting processes. Learn how to handle VAT
and tax jurisdiction codes within one com-
Ruben Barata Rodrigues, PricewaterhouseCoopers
pany code.
Employing manual controls can dramat-
ically increase the cost of compliance and
reduce business effectiveness. Find out what
steps you can take to transform your existing
controls from manual to automated or semi-
automated. Review and analyze your current
controls framework and walk through a proven
approach for defining automated controls
using configurable rules, programmed rules,
ABAP reports, and SAP queries. Get best prac-
tices for identifying, reducing, and preventing
errors and irregularities, and find out how
to ensure more reliable and timely reporting
using an automated control framework. Obtain
proven practices to streamline the implemen-
tation and testing procedures of an internal
control system. Determine whether and how
your organization can benefit from implement-
ing an automated controls framework.
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 Track 11: Multi-national finance, compliance, and risk management
Case study
New lessons from Zurich Financial
Services’ journey to a fast close
across 400 global subsidiaries
Thomas Wagner, Zurich Insurance Group
Find out how Zurich Financial Services success-
fully achieved a faster financial close process
through better consolidation and reporting
across 400 global subsidiaries. Learn how the
company rolled out business consolidation
systems (SEM BCS) functionality to over 1,000
users worldwide and standardized reporting
activities using SAP NetWeaver BW. Examine
Zurich Financial Services’ methods for aggre-
gating, reconciling, and consolidating its
financial data and automatically generating
transparent financial statements and manage-
ment reports, providing both managers and
their CFO with the confidence to sign off on
financial results. Find out why the use of a
portal as an information delivery mechanism
eliminated the need to roll out SAP Business
Explorer (SAP BEx) functionality to every user,
saving the company significant time and
money. Assess the company’s method for con-
solidating multiple charts of accounts (CoA)
into a single, common CoA that became the
backbone of the company’s consolidation and
reporting process.
Case study
How GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
simplified process controls and
enhanced the efficiency of
compliance
Geoffroy de Callataÿ, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
Hear how GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals ensures
internal control maturity, simplified IT controls
and compliance procedures, and achieves a
higher rate of efficiency across its compliance
activities. Get a candid report of the lessons
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals learned as it con-
tinuously works to maintain compliance with
FDA regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley 404, internal
standards, as well as its internal and external
audit departments. Learn why the company
chose SAP BusinessObjects Process Control to
automate the monitoring of IT key controls and
compliance effectiveness and how it built trust
within its master data, evaluation and testing
procedures, and reporting activities. Learn how
the company started its implementation in IT
and then continued the roll-out to other areas
of the organization. Take home a reference
guide which outlines key topics to consider
during the different phases of SAP BusinessOb-
jects Process Control implementation in order
to maximize benefits for all stakeholders.
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Case Study
How Elster Group simplifies
compliance by integrating multiple
compliance initiatives across its
geographically diverse organization
Manfred Hoehl, Elster Group SE
Hear how Elster Group met diverse compli-
ance requirements for a geographically and
organizationally spread-out group of stake-
holders with a consolidated, single solution
from SAP and Greenlight. See how Elster Group
uses SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions and
Greenlight’s RTA Design Studio to automate
segregation of duties (SoD) analysis and pro-
cess control performance support and testing
for SAP and non-SAP applications alike. Hear
why the company utilized the delivered risk
matrix to standardize SoD reporting and view
risk analysis reports, which include users and
authorizations from SAP and non-SAP sys-
tems. View the steps Elster took to set up, test,
and automate its internal controls to better
meet the requirements of financial and oper-
ational audits. Walk away from this session
understanding how consolidating compliance
for multiple business applications provides
Elster’s stakeholders with deeper insight to
improve business governance and process
transparency.
Key lessons to scope, govern, and
build a roadmap for a global finance
transformation program
Mateus Begossi, Deloitte
This session offers concrete strategies for plan-
ning a global finance transformation program,
measuring organizational performance and
leveraging SAP to transform the finance func-
tion into a key strategic lever. Learn how to
apply a proven finance maturity model to
assess the state of its finance organization
and set goals for how to get to the next level
of maturity.Get tips for improving corporate
performance through the use of SAP analyt-
ics, SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and
compliance (GRC) solutions, and SAP Strate-
gic Enterprise Management. Walk through a
proven strategy for evaluating which SAP and
finance transformation projects will provide
the greatest benefit for the lowest price and
risk.
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Expert recommendations to
increase the speed, efficiency, and
quality of your financial close
process
Stefan Karl, SAP AG
Examine how the new release of SAP Financial
Closing cockpit supports you in planning, exe-
cuting, monitoring, and analyzing all entity close
tasks. Understand how to use its enterprise auto-
mation component for further reducing manual
work and errors. Hear firsthand how to enable
peer-to-peer reconciliations and information shar-
ing in real time to identify and resolve problems
early and cut delays at corporate and divisional
levels. Discover a proven approach to reconcile
balances or invoices via the Web, allowing you
to close your books faster. Learn how to create
harmonized financial master data like accounts,
companies, profit centers, or cost centers that is
stored centrally and then distributed toward mul-
tiple accounting and consolidation systems. Find
out how to configure workflow approvals for
master data change requests, and have full trans-
parency in your financial close process.
Case study
How Airbus SAS’ new, centralized
finance system effectively supports
multiple subsidiaries across Europe
Philipp Visotschnig, Airbus SAS
Explore the steps taken by Airbus SAS to
ensure that its financial and IT infrastructure
supports all of its sites and subsidiaries across
Europe. Learn how the company’s demand for
a clear set of business requirements to sup-
port its current IT investments has resulted
in a company-wide initiative to better inte-
grate local SAP-based financial systems, deliver
leaner financial processes, and better serve
the business through new financial standards.
Hear examples that illustrate how the com-
pany developed a new, centralized, financial
platform that consists of a unified accounting
system as well as unified rules and procedures.
Find out how Airbus SAS closes the gaps that
can commonly exist between finance and IT
departments by involving key stakeholders
from both areas in any critical decisions. Delve
into how the company was able to speed up
the monthly availability of data for a faster
close without sacrificing quality. Come away
with an understanding of how Airbus SAS’s
strategy has led to more effective reports,
consistent data, and faster closes across all its
subsidiaries.
 Track 12
Audits
An in-depth analysis of what to
audit — and how — within your
GRC landscape
James Roeske, VanRiver Consulting
This session examines the strategies, chal-
lenges, and technologies you need to
master in order to effectively audit your SAP
BusinessObjects GRC environment. Gain
a comprehensive understanding of the key
auditable areas within GRC, including segre-
gation of duties (SoD) rules, and walk through
the latest tools and methodologies SAP now
makes available to help you streamline your
audit process. Examine what areas auditors
and compliance administrators should focus
on in order to assess the strength of the audit
program and make sure business value is being
achieved, not just in SAP-related areas, but
also across the enterprise. Explore key weak-
nesses and errors that have been observed
in over 160 GRC environments; for example,
failure to validate the integrity of rule set con-
tents. Take home a complete audit checklist to
ensure your GRC tools are providing accuracy,
compliance strength, and high ROI across the
organization.
An auditor’s guide to performing
security assessments
Raymond Mastre, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Due to compliance requirements and concerns
over the disclosure of sensitive information,
audit organizations are required to investi-
gate the security of their SAP systems. Attend
this session for a detailed review of the funda-
mental SAP ERP security concepts that every
auditor needs to know. Walk through a sample
audit plan that identifies essential authoriza-
tion objects that need to be checked and how
to best assess if a user has access to a specific
authorization object (or transaction) and its
impact. Compare and contrast two techniques
for carrying out your access assessments using
SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions versus the
transaction code SUIM in SAP — and get prac-
tical guidance to perform each. Take home a
sample version of an SAP segregation of duties
(SoD) rule set to use as a starting point at your
own organization.
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Increase audit efficiency with a
stronger controls framework
Marc Jackson, Turnkey Consulting
Although many organizations have imple-
mented and now operate a suite of controls
for both external and internal compliance
requirements, these tend to be manual in
nature and increase the overall compliance Case study
effort. Learn how, through the use of SAP How SAP efficiently manages its
BusinessObjects Process Control and SAP Busi-
audit and reporting activities
nessObjects Access Control, your organization
can formalize and optimize its control frame- Dr. Dirk Metzger, SAP AG
work, allowing internal and external audits to SAP’s global internal audit services department
be performed more easily in the long-term. (GIAS) conducts around 150+ audits annually.
Examine how a consolidated controls man- Attend this session for an up-close look at the
agement system can be used by both internal structure of SAP’s audit organization and road-
and external auditors to reduce the volume of map for its future projects and undertakings.
required assurance work, and minimize reli- Learn how, in order to support audit adminis-
ance on management resources. Walk through tration, GIAS is using SAP’s audit management
traditional methods adopted by auditors for component, customized to suit SAP’s specific
reviewing and testing your SAP control envi- needs. Find out what data SAP looks at when
ronment, and understand how they can use performing an audit and how the organiza-
this optimized control environment to change tion utilizes a self-designed dashboard as its
their approach, reducing the amount of time main vehicle for reporting using Xcelsius. View
and resources required for your internal and a live demo that provides an up-close look at
external audits. the reports, such as risk exposure, included in
the dashboard.
Practical advice for streamlining
and improving the value of your
organization’s internal audit
function
Jérôme Pugnet, SAP
In today’s fast-changing global economic envi-
ronment, internal audit departments are required
to align their value propositions with stakehold-
ers’ expectations while delivering cost-effective
services. Whether you manage or perform audits,
learn how to streamline your audit activities
using SAP BusinessObjects GRC 10.0. View a
live demo that showcases how this latest GRC
solution can be used to automate the entire
audit management life cycle, with capabilities
for comprehensive documentation, templates
for standardization and efficiency, automated
workflows to facilitate review, offline testing,
and audit checkpoints to ensure quality. Learn
how to adopt a risk-based approach to auditing,
integrate existing risk and control data and test
results, perform continuous risk and control mon-
itoring and testing, and implement best practices
for more efficient and effective audits.

Column5 EPM Education Center
Implementing EPM in complex
organizations
David Den Boer, Column5
Global operations, diversified product lines,
and large volumes of data are just some of the
criteria that determine a ‘complex organiza-
tion’. Special consideration needs to be given
when implementing these solutions to ensure
an effective result - from both a usability and
organizational value perspective. EPM pro-
cesses done well can return more value to the
business than any other solution. This session
illustrate how to harness the potential of SAP’s
latest EPM portfolio to dramatically improve
companies’ performance.
Introduction to BPC logic
Mike Sullivan, Column5
SAP BPC offers several methods to develop
business rules. This session will review what
admins need to know about the pros and cons
of the various types of logic.
SAP EPM and BPC product
roadmap
Steve Sussman, Ty Jessup, Column5
Learn what lies in the months and years ahead
for SAP’s powerful BPC solution and the entire
high value EPM portfolio.
Increasing the value of SAP BPC:
Part 1
Mike Sullivan, Column5
SAP BPC is a flexible solution that can pro-
vide value to your organization in many ways.
Explore this session to learn about unique solu-
tions available that add value without the need
to purchase additional software.
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Making a case for EPM
David Den Boer, Column5
In an effort to help businesses cut through the
hype and sales pitches to understand the trans-
formational power of EPM initiatives, Column5
has created a unique assessment tool. Housed
in the “Column5 Business Analytics Toolkit,”
this app is available via a free download from
the Apple AppStore for iPad users. This session
will discuss the structure of the business case
builder, key themes and considerations when
assessing the potential value of an EPM initia-
tive, and best practice approaches to properly
establishing an EPM process improvement ini-
tiative at your company.
Increasing the value of SAP BPC:
Part 2
Mike Sullivan, Column5
SAP BPC is a flexible solution that can pro-
vide value to your organization in many ways.
Explore this session to learn about unique solu-
tions available that add value without the need
to purchase additional software.
Discover hidden value using PCM as
part of integrated EPM
David Den Boer, Column5
Profitability is a critical concern for many
organizations in today’s economy. SAP’s PCM
solution can identify areas in your operations
where you can fine tune your performance.
Learn how PCM can deliver additional value as
part of an overall EPM solution.
Migrating from Hyperion to SAP
EPM
Steve Sussman and Mike Weeks, Column5
The popularity of Hyperion’s legacy solutions
in undeniable. Attend this session to learn
feature and value comparisons between the
two products, and key implementation strate-
gies that can save your organization time and
money.
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EPM technical implementation
milestones for stability & scalability
Charles Dagaev, Column5
Planning to establish a high performance tech-
nical platform can pay dividends from the first
day a development environment is stood up.
Those interested in how the most experienced
team in the business creates a solid base for a
successful implementation will attend.
BPC logic for consolidations and
business rules
Mike Sullivan, Column5
Many companies that leverage BPC for con-
solidations use only a fraction of the powerful
features available to automate and accelerate
the close process. In addition, new functionality
exists for consolidations in BPC v10, improv-
ing on the already rich featureset of the BPC
solution.
Sales & Operations Planning
(S&OP) with EPM
Ian Garrington and Mike Weeks, Column5
Few processes are as valuable in an organiza-
tion as the sales & operations planning process.
Learn how to leverage the SAP EPM product
portfolio to deliver this critical function.
Performance tuning on SAP BPC
7.5 & 10 MS versions
Charles Dagaev, Column5
A solution built on a flawed platform can cause
a crisis at the least convenient time. This ses-
sion reviews what you need to know to avoid
that risk, and what to do if you find your system
underperforming.
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 Column5 EPM Education Center
Strategize & align with SAP SSM as
part of integrated EPM
David Den Boer, Column5
Every company has a strategy, but few cre-
ate an effective process to measure progress
towards execution of the strategy. SAP’s SSM
product helps close the gap between strategy
& execution. When implemented as part of an
integrated EPM solution, this product can add
even more value.
Performance tuning on SAP BPC
7.5 & 10 MS versions
Charles Dagaev, Column5
A solution built on a flawed platform can cause
a crisis at the least convenient time. This ses-
sion reviews what you need to know to avoid
that risk, and what to do if you find your system
underperforming.
Integrating SharePoint with EPM
Ty Jessup, Column5
The BPC user experience can be enhanced
when using SharePoint to increase the func-
tionality. Attend this session to learn how
SharePoint’s visualization, workflow, and doc-
ument organization can be used to provide a
consistent and highly functional user interface
in your environment.
Financial planning using SAP BPC
as part of integrated EPM
Ian Garrington, Column5
SAP BPC is often deployed as a financial plan-
ning solution, however, when implemented as
a key component in an integrated EPM solu-
tion, BPC can amplify the value of this solution.
Attend this session to find out how.
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Last mile of finance: BPC & BPC logic: Beyond the basics
Disclosure Management Mike Sullivan, Column5
Ty Jessup, Column5 Building on the introduction to logic, this ses-
New module Disclosure Management delivers sion delves into the specifics of how logic is
the “Last Mile of Finance” functionality includ- optimized for BPC.
ing XBRL, financial statement footnotes and
external reporting functionality. This “must EPM 10 reporting
have” solution can be used in conjunction with
Ian Garrington , Column5
BPC or standalone.
EPM10 features an all new user interface with
Round table many powerful features. Get to know the
Overcoming SAP BPC production basics and some advanced tips and tricks with
issues the new version. Whether you are on EPM10
or planning an upgrade, this session includes
Ian Garrington, Charles Dagaev, and David Den critical information about how the all new
Boer, Column5 reporting interface works.
SAP BPC is a powerful and flexible solution,
but there can be pitfalls when certain features Business intelligence: Supporting
are used in the wrong proportions. Attend integrated EPM
this moderated session to air your challenges,
David Den Boer, Column5
share your solutions, and come away with
answers to your nagging questions. Getting critical data in the right hands at the
right time is essential to enable better deci-
Integrating BI with EPM 10 sion making. Leverage Business Intelligence
to deliver important information to a broader
Ty Jessup, Column5
audience within the integrated EPM process to
EPM10 contains simplified integration points drive additional value.
to enable BI solutions to incorporate valuable
EPM data. Find out how these solutions can
work together to increase access to your EPM
solution data to make better decisions across
the enterprise.
Dashboard Design (formerly
Xcelsius) graphical visualization
with EPM
Ty Jessup, Column5
Recent enhancements to the EPM suite enable
rich dashboards to be built very quickly.
Explore this rich functionality combining EPM
modules and Dashboards.
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