SAP Simple Finance

What is Sap Simple Finance?

Aligned Organization - One single source of Truth
One stop acccess to all financal a nd non financial data
Ensure harmonized data without manual reconciliation
Enable flexible data drill-down to actionable information
Access to all information to make decisions
How can Hana be a single source of truth?

Before: ERP with separate modules with data separated in modules which would the
n be extracted into a Business Warehouse system.
Once the data was in a BW system we would have aceleration in BW where we could
bring extra reporting performance in.
There is a separation of transactions, Analysis, and accelerated Reporting.
Various copies of data in different data moduls
Inherent data latency and alignment issues
Serial processes to ensure data quality
Today: We can be in a workd where Hana can have all of this and points this info
rmation into Fiori, ....
One data instance as common basis for transactions, analysis, and Reporting
A single data copy in shared data model
Aggregation of elemetary records in real time
From serial processes to event driven collaboration

Architecture of SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA

From:
Separate logistics document, financial document, CO Document, Totals & I
ndices tables in Financial Accounting -> this architecture was impacting perform
ance, concurrent processes having impact on the overall system speed.
The felxibility was brought by the seperate BW and analytics.
To:
Separate logistics document, one single financial and CO document (logic
al document) and the agregation is done on the fly via Hana views with enbeded P
rocessing and Analytics.
Customer Benefits:
Harmonized internal and external reporting
Higher flexibility in reporting and analysis
Significantly reduced memory consumption
Central journal for heterogenous system landscapes

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Q&A
OSS note about what is lost and what is added.
Lose the SAP Gui and start using the fiori I/F
All about the eveolution on how to use SAP
SAP PS is included in SAP Hana?
See release notes for Simple finance.
The basic stuff is migrated (not implemented)
Better to implement the solutions and migrate later but there is nothing that st
op customers to migrate to S/4 Hana and enhance later