WEBINAR SERIES: Pave Your Way to the Intelligent Enterprise with SAP Analytics Cloud

Extended Planning & Analytics to Stay Ahead of Competition

March 24,  1-2 PM ET

Speakers: Eric Smit, Dan Cupersmith

About:

Today, more than ever, it’s critical to streamline planning, to meet your KPIs, manage strategic plans, and forecast for the future, in a faster and smarter way. SAP Analytics Cloud can help to unify and align your financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting for both corporate and business unit operations. Create dynamic visual stories based on your key business areas with trusted data that is managed by IT. Make better decisions by interacting with visualizations, drilling down for more detailed information, and answering business questions on the fly.

Key Takeaways:

• The problems caused by fragmented approaches to modern planning
• Leverage BI and augmented analytics to make confident decisions
• Enable a collaborative platform for your entire organization, in one place
• Break down silos between business units  

Achieve Modern Financial Close with SAP Analytics Cloud + Group Reporting

March 29, 1-2 PM EST

Speakers: Dan Cupersmith

Description:

The rules of financial close management have changed. Today’s increasing regulation and stakeholder demands are undoubtedly adding heavy pressure on financial leaders to deliver greater transparency in less time. Can your current consolidation and reporting processes keep up? During this webinar, we will discuss how SAP Group Reporting coupled with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) can help you achieve a modern financial close by automating manual tasks and equipping you with predictive planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting and analytics capabilities, enabling you to quickly close the books and react in real-time.

Key Takeaways:

• Leverage typical use cases for SAP Group Reporting + SAC
• Benefit from numerous integration capabilities
• Automate manual activities to streamline your period-end cycle
• Gain greater visibility into financial and operational processes
• Tightly integrate financial controls for enhanced accuracy of results
• Proactively address internal and external reporting demands
• Reach greater forecast accuracy to prevent reconciliation errors
  
  
  

From SAP Business Planning & Consolidation to SAP Analytics Cloud

March 31, 1-2 PM EST

Speakers: Dan Cupersmith, Chris Clay

Description: There is a misperception in the marketplace that SAP has neglected their 4,000+ Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) customers forcing them into the hands of small niche Planning Vendors.  SAP has provided a variety of options that will help customers maximize their investment in BPC while taking advantage of modern planning and advanced analytics.  SAP has provided options for BPC customers, they are: Move, Complement, or Add. This webinar will dive deeper into each of these options.  

Key Takeaways:

• How to optimize planning  
• Key considerations for moving completely to SAP Analytics Cloud
• Benefits of complementing existing BPC planning with SAP Analytics Cloud
• Critical IT factors to consider

Introduction to SAP Analytics Cloud

April 7, 1-2 PM EST

Speakers: Dan Cupersmith, Chris Clay

Description: Discover a new way to access all the cloud analytics features you need, from BI, augmented analytics, and enterprise planning, all in one place. See how SAP Analytics Cloud can enhance collaboration across your entire organization and provide you with insights to make better, faster decisions with confidence.

Key Takeaways:

• Follow a live demonstration of key capabilities within SAP Analytics Cloud
• Understand End-to-end analytical capabilities overview
• Leverage the Digital Boardroom to interact with insights and simulate the impact of decisions on the company in real-time
• Utilize embedded reporting and insights
• Make end-to-end decisions with data management and analytics together
• Create dynamic visual stories based on key data  
• Increase engagement with advanced, built-in collaboration capabilities
  

  

LIVE PANEL: Customer Journey to Successful Implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud 

April 21, 1-2 PM EST

Speakers: Graylin Johnson, Dan Cupersmith, Mark Burke, Chris Clay, Eric Smit, United Therapeutics

Description: How can you ensure a smooth implementation of or upgrade to SAP Analytics Cloud? Join Analysis Prime and its customer, United Therapeutics, to hear collaboration best practices from both sides for successful SAC deployment. During this live panel, you will learn:

Key Takeaways:

• Common challenges faced by customers when implementing new software
• Implementation methodology and approach
• Overcoming data cleansing issues
• Mapping of operational processes
• Identification of clear and quantifiable implementation objectives