HANA for Finance Webinar Recording Now Available

On Thursday, May 29 members of the SAP Controlling Community gathered for a webinar on SAP HANA. Listen to the recording and find out how SAP customers are connecting to a dedicated SAP HANA system in the cloud.

SAP ERP Finance and Controlling customers have been facing long-running ERP processes (like allocations, settlements) and reporting resulting in long (too long) running month-end closing processes. A traditional assessment of the SAP HANA Finance Accelerator capabilities and benefits required hardware and software investments and corresponding IT skills and resources. Learn about a new service offering that now lets a customer connect to a dedicated SAP HANA system in the cloud (private instance on Amazon AWS) and run their existing ERP processes and reporting … with their own data … with the speed of SAP HANA. Takes as little as 1 hour to setup, with 3 key (General Ledger, Cost Management, Profitability (CO-PA) to choose from and is typically available within 1 business day. Join to find out more about the offer that allows ECC 6.0 EhP5 customers to get started quickly - at minimum cost and maximum flexibility – with no SAP HANA license or long-term commitment required. Understand options and service levels impacting the overall cost for the baseline scenario starting at USD 6k for a one-week scenario and USD 10k for a one-month scenario.

Click here to watch a recording of the webinar.

 The webinar was presented by Controlling 2014 speakers David Dixon and Carsten Hilker. 

David Dixon is an internationally recognized speaker and author. His authoritative book Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse and popular SAP-sponsored white papers establish him as a leading expert in SAP implementation and deployment strategies. David was a former Financials and Controlling Platinum Consultant with SAP, specializing in all the SAP information systems and tools. He has actively worked with SAP’s development team for over fifteen years in support of applications in the Enterprise Performance Management space, starting with SAP ERP-based Financial Consolidation (FI-LC). He has extensive project experience in implementing complicated global solutions for Fortune 100 companies and is a recognized speaker at SAP events worldwide.

Carsten Hilker is the Solution Manager at SAP for the Cost and Performance Management portfolio of solutions within ERP (CO) and EPM. He is an advocate and promoter of profitable growth, effective and efficient resource management, and optimization of processes and business activities throughout an organization.