Building Successful Corporate Elearning Programs

Building Successful Corporate E-learning Programs

Competing in a Dynamic Business World 76% INTRODUCTION Table of Contents 2 DELIVERING GREATER VALUE At SAP we’ve worked with customers around the world to identify the most complex tasks in finance and make them simpler to consume and perform. The result is the SAP® Simple Finance solution, a comprehensive offering powered by SAP HANA®. With SAP Simple Finance, you can run mission critical processes in real time on a simpler solution architecture. With such a comprehensive offering, we believe SAP is uniquely positioned to help you streamline and simplify end-to-end finance processes and deliver the instant insights that drive smarter decisions and create greater strategic value.

On the following pages, we outline some of the challenges facing organizations like yours and discuss how SAP Simple Finance can help you address them and meet the new demands placed on financial executives. RECOVERY REPLACES RECESSIONOver the past few years, finance executives have been busycutting costs, conserving cash, and paying off debts. But time share changing. Today, finance executives are more optimistic than they have been for some time. According to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s Q1 2014 Global CFO Signals report, published in May 2014, “...finance executives are reporting sustained – and in some cases, increasing – optimism. In addition, many are moving forward with their expansionary plans.” 1 That isn’t to say the picture is all rosy. The economy is still volatile in many countries, as are commodity prices and stocks. Pressure on margins is not going away, and regulatory oversight is increasing. In a global economy, there will always be economic and geographic areas that are stagnating while others are growing, making business more complex and harder to predict. To help companies compete in this constantly changing business world, finance executives and their teams must be more responsive and focus on delivering greater value. With their unique, enterprise-wide perspective of the business, they are in a perfect position to become strategic advisers to the business and CEO.

However, the role of finance has grown more complex over the years. And complexity is the killer of efficiency. Finance needs simple and agile solutions to solve the next decade’s challenges and accommodate the shift to becoming a service organization within the company. Those solutions must help finance: • Maintain global regulatory compliance and control of accounting and tax standards, across currencies, languages, and industries • Optimize finance processes for efficient and collaborative relationships with customers, suppliers, banks, and government authorities to capture savings, deliver value, and drive compliance • Engage with the business to jointly drive value, based on realtime analysis of financial and operational business scenarios Introduction: Competing in a Dynamic Business World 3 Delivering Financial Excellence 4 Helping You Address Today’s Financial Challenges 6 The Benefits of Using SAP Solutions 8 Customer Case Studies: Delivering Benefits 10 Comprehensive, Integrated Finance Solutions 11 Driving Continuous Innovation 12 The Journey to Simpler Finance 16 How SAP Can Help You at Every Stage of Your Journey 17 Executive Summary 18 Next Steps 19 Of finance executives responding to the survey report a growing need to work more closely with their companies’ operational units in guiding the business