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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  1. Accounts Payable

    How Drivers for Global Tax Management Strategy Have Changed

    Published: 23/March/2023

    Reading time: 1 mins

    The global tax landscape is complex and constantly shifting. This means that organizations not only have to change their tools to keep pace, but often they must realign their entire strategy to stay afloat. In a previous blog, we highlighted how digital transformation and modernization of tax and finance is the top driver of global…

  2. Accounts Payable

    Technologies Used to Support Global Tax Management Strategy

    Published: 22/March/2023

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Finding the right global tax management strategy can make a significant difference in the bottom lines of organizations of all sizes. Yet the proper strategy can only be achieved if organizations can pair their teams with the appropriate technology in order to maximize their overall value. In the previous blog of this series, we dove…

  3. organizational change

    Live from SAPinsider 2023: Finance, Day 1

    Published: 22/March/2023

    Reading time: 2 mins

    The 2023 SAPinsider Vegas event had a great keynote kickoff today, starting with what Chobani’s Parag Agrawal said: “Technology is not a problem. Technology works—organizational change is the challenge.” So what drives the differences in outcome among the many implementations? The technology delivers the processes to be executed. The implementations drive the orchestration and execution…

  4. financial close

    Top Global Tax Management Requirements

    Published: 21/March/2023

    Reading time: 2 mins

    In this blog, we will discuss how digital transformation and modernization of tax and finance are the top drivers of global tax management strategies. We will highlight the requirements that SAPinsider members said were the most important to them in the Global Tax Management Benchmark Research Report. In the benchmark report, SAPinsiders clearly prioritized the…

  5. SAP Central Finance Solution Extensions Now Backed by insightsoftware

    Published: 20/March/2023

    Reading time: 1 mins

    For years, SAP users who implemented SAP Central Finance solution extensions by Magnitude have benefited from the accelerated connection between Central Finance and their other disparate systems. After being acquired at the end of 2021, Magnitude’s CFin products are now powered by insightsoftware. The two solution extensions, Transaction Replication and Master Data Replication, are now…

  6. financial close

    Key Drivers and Strategies for Global Tax Management

    Published: 14/March/2023

    Reading time: 1 mins

    The global tax landscape is a complex and constantly evolving challenge. Organizations must keep up to stay competitive in the broader business world. There are challenges, both internally and externally, that make tax compliance an issue. In this blog, we will highlight some of those drivers that affect how organizations run their global tax management…

  7. Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB) Collapse a Wakeup Call for Treasury Teams 

    Published: 13/March/2023

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Despite the financial backstop provided to former customers of SIVB and SBNY, all organizations’ end-to-end treasury and cash management functions will be tested in the coming weeks and months. The lessons learned from SIVB’s collapse should remind organizations that treasury is still the keystone of financial operations, regardless of the size or complexity of their…

  8. hybrid workforces payroll

    The Impact of Global Inflation on Day-to-Day Operations in SAP

    Published: 07/March/2023

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Inflation has been one of the biggest sticking points for businesses over the last year. In an increasingly connected global economy, no country is ever fully insulated from the effects of inflation on the price of goods, as well as how it alters interest rates. In this article, SAPinsider expert Adrian Wilder will walk through…

  9. financial performance

    Performing Period-End Close in SAP Group Reporting

    Published: 06/March/2023

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Financial consolidation can be a complicated process for SAP users. When it comes time to perform period-end close procedures, finance teams must ensure that they have taken all necessary steps to avoid audit by correctly performing all closing activities. In this article, SAPinsider expert Dr. Marco Sisfontes-Monge walks you through some of the crucial steps…

  10. How Organizations Can Achieve Enterprise Sustainability

    Published: 13/January/2023

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Sustainability is more than just a buzzword. It is a key element of the ESG (environment, social, and governance) puzzle. Organizations can no longer merely pay it lip service. Today, sustainability efforts must satisfy employees and shareholders, and provide a global positive impact. Sustainability discussions today often begin and end around the measure of a…