SAP Controlling 2015 Conference Platinum Lab Sponsor and More Information on SAP Sessions & Speakers

SAP® is the Controlling 2015 Conference platinum lab sponsor. The lab will offer an opportunity for attendees to work hands on in a lab setting with recent SAP innovations including SAP Simple Finance powered by SAP HANA. 

The Controlling 2015 conference offers SAP professionals an unprecedented opportunity to obtain Controlling-focused education and take advantage of numerous networking opportunities to connect with peers and industry experts before, during, and after the conference. Attendees will also get an inside look at Simple Finance 1503, the core of SAP's S/4 HANA application renewal, from renowned Controlling experts at SAP.

The SAP Financials/Controlling lab will offer an opportunity to work hands on in a lab setting with recent SAP innovations. Sign up for a scheduled, 30-minute sit-down for invaluable guidance on any of the following SAP Simple Finance areas:

• New SAP Interfaces – FIORI brings consumer grade experience into Finance Departments
• Central Finance – Innovations around the Universal Journal and Accounting
• Integrated Business Planning – embedding budgeting, planning and simulations with BPC into ERP
• Advanced Visualizations of YOUR data – bring a dataset and gain new insight visualizing it on the fly with SAP Lumira

Lab registration will take place onsite at the Controlling 2015 Conference.

SAP speakers will present the following expert-led sessions at Controlling 2015:

Plenary Session: SAP Simple Finance 1503 – Accounting and controlling step closer together 

Presented by Janet Salmon, Chief Product Owner for Management Accounting at SAP AG  

 Janet Salmon, Chief Product Owner for Management Accounting at SAP AG, will introduce the latest changes to accounting and controlling in SAP Simple Finance 1503. SAP is in the process of reinventing SAP Financials using SAP HANA to enable new programming paradigms and SAP Fiori to provide a new user interface. One of the most fundamental changes is the decision to bring all the transactional data into a single table that covers Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Asset Accounting and the Material Ledger. In this session we’ll look at how these changes will affect Controlling, discussing how accounts and cost elements will merge, what you can expect to see in Reporting and Planning, and how account-based CO-PA has been enhanced to provide better Profitability Reporting.

What’s new? SAP innovations in reporting, analytics, and dashboards 

Presented by: Carsten Hilker, Solution Manager for the Cost and Performance Management portfolio of solutions within ERP (CO) and EPM at SAP

A number of technology innovations in the SAP portfolio can add value to controlling reporting, even if you are not on the latest release of SAP. This session will cover:

• Business Intelligence (BI) tools including Mobile BI
• Visual data analysis and analytical applications
• HANA-based operational reporting basics
• Excel-like reporting with HANA and advanced analytics

You’ll walk away from this presentation a better understanding how to leverage innovations in reporting and analytics and how and where that can improve your SAP Controlling environment.

SAP’s innovations – Are you overlooking important functionality in SAP Controlling?  

Presented by Janet Salmon, Chief Product Owner for Management Accounting at SAP AG  

While it’s hard to miss marketing information on SAP Fiori and SAP HANA, there are actually lots of other innovations in SAP Controlling you may be overlooking. Many of the innovations that went under the SAP HANA umbrella can actually be used on any ERP system. In this session we’ll cover:

• Using virtual InfoProviders on ERP table structures to enable new reporting in SAP Material Ledger and Profitability Analysis (account-based and costing-based)
• Activating some of the business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages, such as cross-company actual costing, parallel cost of goods manufactured, operation level costing, stock in transit, and many more
• Leveraging cross-company actual costing to allow SAP Material Ledger to transfer values across company codes and stock in transit as a logistics enabler
• Using parallel cost of goods manufactured and parallel asset accounting to extend parallel accounting functions originally delivered with new general ledger

Walk away with tips for modernizing your company’s CO-PA and SAP Material Ledger reporting.

Panel Discussion: Modernizing SAP Financials and Controlling

Presented by Julien Delvat, Jon Reed, Kevin Reilly, & Janet Salmon

In this panel discussion, our panel of SAP Controlling and Financial experts from a variety of backgrounds including SAP HANA and Simple Finance will explore the following central question: What does modernizing financials mean to you? Bring your questions and be prepared to participate in this innovative and active panel discussion.

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