Financial Services

Financial Services is a crucial industry for SAP. Financial services companies face many growing challenges, including ever-changing regulations, evolving consumer expectations, economic instability, and increased competition brought on from digital-only organizations. These drivers make it imperative to transform and become more efficient, better engaged, and resilient.

SAP and Partner Solutions for Financial Services (H2)

There are many solutions in the SAP ecosystem that are relevant to the Financial Services sector:

Financial Services is a crucial industry for SAP. Financial services companies face many growing challenges, including ever-changing regulations, evolving consumer expectations, economic instability, and increased competition brought on from digital-only organizations. These drivers make it imperative to transform and become more efficient, better engaged, and resilient.

SAP and Partner Solutions for Financial Services (H2)

There are many solutions in the SAP ecosystem that are relevant to the Financial Services sector:

  • Digital Customer Engagement is about modernizing the way companies reach consumers, which can include omnichannel commerce, customer experience management, digital banking, customer analytics, and marketing offerings.
  • Finance and Risk solutions help companies stay compliant and avoid risk by touching on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) functionality, financial planning and analysis, data services, reporting, and accounting for financial instruments.
  • Banking Operations tools aim to help those in the banking industry with key functions including card management, retail services, payments, cash and liquidity management, and commercial lending.
  • Total Spend Management is about helping companies get a centralized view of spend by combining multiple cloud offerings around procurement, vendor management, sourcing and contracting, invoicing and payables, travel reimbursement, and analytics.
  • HCM and HXM solutions help organizations with recruiting, onboarding, talent management, and more.
  • Core ERP systems act as a system of record for key transactional information.

The financial services sector is turning to technology to assist with becoming more digital and more relevant to consumers. At the same time, they are looking to build processes and systems that can provide centralized views of data around customers, compliance, risk, finance, and employees.

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

Financial services companies are utilizing SAP and partner solutions as part of their transformation programs within a variety of focus areas, including security, automation, and digitization.

  • How Zurich North America used BlackLine to move to SAP S/4HANA. Read this case study to hear about Zurich North America’s SAP S/4HANA migration, including how it utilized Blackline Solutions for Automation & Control during the project.
  • Swiss Federal Administration planned its SAP S/4HANA move with security design in mind. Read this case study to learn how the Swiss Federal Administration managed SAP Security within its SAP S/4HANA migration.
  • Deutsche Börse Group’s approach to digitization, process redesign, and defining sustainable user journeys. Read this Q&A to learn about Deutsch Börse Group is transforming its SAP landscape while also transforming its business overall.

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  3. SAP Financial Close

    How BMO Modernized Their Finance Platform to Derive Business Insights

    Published: 21/April/2023

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Bank of Montreal sought to find a platform that could help simplify and streamline business processes while also providing more up to date financial information – a must in the banking industry. To help meet these needs, BMO turned to SAP S/4HANA finance to help redirect its focus from generating financial information to deriving insights…

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    Reading time: 2 mins

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    Published: 04/April/2023

    Reading time: 9 mins

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    Published: 30/March/2023

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Financial close is consistently highlighted by SAPinsiders as one of the most challenging and complex aspects of their organization’s finance processes. Much of this complexity comes from the fact that many organizations rely on manual processes to address the close, leading to delays and errors that can stack up over time. For SAP users, the…

  8. SAPinsider 2023 Conference Session Highlights: Live Q&A from Serrala Session on AR Automation

    Published: 27/March/2023

    Reading time: 4 mins

    The SAPinsider 2023 Live Conference provided attendees with valuable insights into the ecosystem of associated SAP solutions and applications. One of the highlights was a live Q&A session that focused on the capabilities of Serrala, a leading provider of automated working capital management solutions for SAP environments. In this session, Michael Koehler, Principal Solutions Architect…

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    A Smarter Approach to Intercompany

    Published: 27/March/2023

    Reading time: 9 mins

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    Pain Point Trends across Global Tax Management

    Published: 24/March/2023

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Tax teams face numerous significant challenges in their daily operations. The complexity of operations presents a long list of potential obstacles to minimizing tax burden. In a previous blog, we explored how modernization of tax and finance (migration to SAP S/4HANA, automation, use of RPA, AI/ML, etc.) as the top driver of global tax management…