Deloitte`s Journey from Analytics to S/4 HANA

SAP HANA
Deloitte’s Journey from Analytics to S/4 HANA
Christopher Dinkel
Director, Deloitte Consulting
Director in Deloitte Consulting,
Worked with internal clients and
part of IM SAP Team
external customers all over the world
to explore the power
av and exploit the
value of HANA and
Secondary Role, leads Analytics
In-Memory-Computing
and Reporting Studio, providing
solutions with SAP’s analytics and
database technologies
Leads programs to develop
practical applications leveraging
SAP HANA to solve real problems
Collaborate with Deloitte
inside Deloitte and next generation
Consulting’s SAP Service Line
Analytic Solutions taking advantage
on SimFIN on HANA
of In-Memory-Computing
Deloitte at a Glance
The technology is cool, but what does it mean to the business?
Business leaders value what HANA delivers:
Rapid integration
of data from
multiple sources
Speed to deploy
& speed to value
Flexibility to
meet changing
business needs
Enabled mobile
analytics
The power to know
in time to act
HOW IS HANA
BEING USED
IN DELOITTE?
Expense Compliance Vendor Analysis
Client Question:
As an expense compliance analyst how do I quickly and easily search and report on all corporate
card expense transactions?
Featured SAP Tools:
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Do we have employees using their corporate card at prohibited types of vendors?
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Do we have employees purchasing prohibited goods or services?
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Can I quickly and easily report on all corporate card transactions for any employee?
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Can I quickly and easily execute free-form text searches against all the unstructured comment
and vendor data in corporate card transaction data?
Solution:
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Enables flexible, free-form text search against all corporate card expense transactions
• SAP Business Objects Data Services®
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Delivers excellent performance searching all corporate card expense transactions
• SAP Crystal Reports®
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Delivers pixel-perfect, formatted reporting that will also easily export to Excel
• SAP HANA® database
Tax Jurisdiction Compliance
Client Question:
How do I ensure Tax Jurisdiction compliance for all the time/expense reporting of the professionals in
the organization?
Featured SAP Tools:
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How do I ensure audit of 100% of the transactions?
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How do I account for complex business logic such as travel to a new tax jurisdiction at the end of
a business day?
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How can I evaluate trends to determine whether efforts to improve compliance are working?
Solution:
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Delivers a report that analyzes hundreds of millions of rows of data to identify cases where
employees charge time in a jurisdiction that is different than their hotel stay
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Runs for any date range, which allows for trend analysis
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Replaces a process that previously required more than 5 days just to produce a subset of this
information
• SAP HANA® database
• SAP Business Objects Data Services®
• SAP Crystal Reports®
Real-Time Customer and Vendor Master Reporting
Client Question:
Featured SAP Tools:
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As an Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable analyst, where can I get all of my master data
reporting needs delivered quickly and easily?
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Can I have a one-stop place for all the different views of data I need?
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Can the views be customizable and personalized for my own needs?
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Will it be straight forward to implement new views of the data in the future?
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Will the reports be fast, even when returning tens of thousands of rows of data?
Solution:
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Enables fast, real-time reporting of customer and vendor master data via HANA
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Delivers master data reports via the ECC system using a SAP GUI ABAP transaction
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For tabular data presentation, uses the familiar and featured-rich ABAP List Viewer
• SAP HANA® database
• SAP Landscape Transformation ® (SLT)
• SAP ABAP ®
Real-Time Financial Reporting on General Ledger Transaction Detail
Client Question:
As a member of the Finance Organization, I need to be able to quickly pull financial transactional
details from the General Ledger. I need the ability to create my own reports in response to leadership
requests with quick, easy access to accurate financial data in a familiar tool
Featured SAP Tools:
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Can I get to the details faster? With the current process, I sometimes have to wait hours to get
data
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Can the views be customizable and personalized for my own needs?
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Can I use wildcard and fuzzy searches on non-structured data?
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Do I have to learn another new tool?
Solution:
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Enables fast, real-time reporting of Financial Transaction data in the General Ledger via HANA
(over 1.9 Billion rows of data replicated)
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Delivers both summary and detailed reports via the ECC system using a SAP GUI ABAP
transaction
•
For tabular data presentation, uses the familiar and featured-rich ABAP List Viewer
• SAP HANA® database
• SAP Landscape Transformation ® (SLT)
• SAP ABAP ®
Client and Engagement Profitability Analytics
Client Question:
As a project controller or business information analyst, how can I get to actionable insight from our
data that will increase future profitability of the engagements, sectors, industries, or service
areas/services lines that I support
Featured SAP Tools:
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What are common dimensions/drivers of higher-profitability and lowerprofitability clients/engagements?
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How do different staffing mix or pricing decisions impact profitability?
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What are unexpected dimensions/drivers that impact client/
engagement profitability?
Solution:
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Enables fast, flexible ad-hoc analytics for all client profitability metrics
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Enables analysis on multiple dimensions: engagements; personnel; internal organization
structure; client service offerings; etc
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Enables deeper understanding of how key drivers such as staffing-mix drive profitability and can
help uncover unexpected drivers of profitability
• SAP HANA® database
• SAP Analysis Office ®
• Tableau 8 ®
Policy and Compliance Analytics
Client Question:
As an expense compliance analyst, how do I quickly and easily search and report
on corporate card charges and expenses?
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How can I enable teams to search for fraudulent charges based on vendor name,
address, or charge description?
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How can I identify non-compliant attendees of entertainment or meal expenses?
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Featured Technology:
Solution:
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• SAP HANA® database
• SAP Business Objects Data Services®
• SAP Crystal Reports®
Do we have employees purchasing prohibited goods or services?
Enables flexible, free-form text search against all corporate card transactions
and expenses.
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Deliver a customized parameter screen enabling users to make a wide array of
selections based on preference.
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Allow analysts to perform searches in minutes that were not even possible with
legacy technologies.
Federal Total Expense Reporting
Client Question:
As a Deloitte Federal leader or as a member of the Federal Compliance team I
need to monitor and analyze the expense approval process.
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Featured Technology
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• SAP Business Objects Data Services®
• SAP Crystal Reports®
How do I easily identify rejected expense and underlying reasons?
How do I know the overall the efficiency of expense approval process?
Solution:
• SAP HANA® database
• SAP Landscape Transformation ® (SLT)
How do I easily identify unapproved expense reports?
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Enables real-time replication of expense transactions to SAP HANA.
Highly-optimized HANA Models that present a compliance-centric view to
business and Federal Compliance teams.
Proactive approach in meeting and exceeding compliance guidelines, by
providing in-depth analysis and near real-time insight into the overall expense
management process.
Revenue Reporting
Client Question:
As an organizational leader or financial business analyst, I need near real-time insight into revenue,
especially during financial period close.
Featured SAP Tools:
• SAP HANA® database
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How do I see intra-day updates to revenue for my organization especially during time-sensitive
financial closing.
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How do I see whether revenue adjustments I’m expecting have been booked during financial
close?
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How do I get from a summary level of revenue in my organization down to the lowest level of detail
when needed?
Solution:
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Enable near real-time reporting of revenue data that contains over 2 billion rows of data at the
lowest level of detail.
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Enables a web-based interface with organizational summary views that allow drill-down thru all
organizational hierarchies.
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In addition to web access offers an Excel-based report that can be refreshed on-demand for any
year/period or organization level.
• SAP Landscape Transformation ® (SLT)
• SAP Crystal Reports®
• SAP Analysis Office ®
Why is Deloitte
moving to S/4
HANA?
Essential SAP Finance Capabilities
SAP Simple Finance represents a huge leap forward for finance capabilities
and user experience
One Logical Document
Elimination of Aggregates
Real-time Close
One accounting document across
Finance, Controlling, and CO-PA
simplifies reporting and display of
accounting document information
Elimination of totals tables, fixed
hierarchies, and database indices
allows for flexible reporting and
dynamic hierarchies pulling from line
item detail in real-time
Reduction in batch close processes,
processes designed for real-time
operations, and availability of reporting
on demand enables transition to a
continuous (soft) close
Next-Gen User Experience
Integrated Business Planning
Central Journal
New web and mobile transactions,
role-based dashboards, and flexible
reporting powered by SAP Fiori
Embedded Business Planning &
Consolidations sits within the same HANA
database as SFin, updates the same
financial tables, and can utilize line item
detail
Pre-built SLT libraries and data
transformation capabilities enable rapid
deployment of SFin as a central
financial platform
Business Imperative
Investment in the Financial Systems infrastructure is required to support the Deloitte 2020 Strategy
and provide ongoing systems stability and business continuity.
Ensure Domestic and Global Scalability
Organic Growth: Increasing transaction volume, from a combination of marketplace and talent growth, will become unmanageable for the
current systems landscape
M&A Transactions: Inability to integrate and consolidate new acquisitions and partnerships will limit Finance’s ability to deliver results and
be an effective business partner
Support An Evolving Pricing Strategy
and Manage Profitability
Pricing: Lack of flexibility to manage and monitor custom pricing models will limit the organization’s ability to offer tailored pricing based on
distinct variables (e.g., project
type, size)
Revenue: Transparency and timeliness of revenue recognition capabilities is required to support more effective decision making and
engagement management
Profitability: Increased market pressure on profit margin requires Finance to be able to analyze client profitability across various categories
(e.g., function, market offering)
Mitigate Risk
and Maintain
Systems Stability
Systems Risk: Unstable and overly custom systems environment will continue to increase the number of unplanned systems outages and
breakdowns, if left unaddressed
Institutional Risk: Loss of institutional knowledge resulting from expected attrition will further impact the ability to recover from systems
failure and serve the needs of the organization
Reputational Risk: Knowledge of Deloitte’s antiquated systems infrastructure in the marketplace may result in a loss of client confidence,
impacting our success in the FT space
Compliance Risk: Unstable versions of current tax systems environment could potentially result in large compliance risks and penalties
related to filing delays
Key Future Capabilities
An integrated systems landscape with leading practice design will enable needed capabilities,
improving overall efficiency, effectiveness and control.
Ensure Domestic and Global
Scalability
 Implement a stronger infrastructure to minimize today’s performance challenges and support future transaction volumes (e.g., increased
database size, number of application servers and processors)
 Enable foreign currency billing and enable automated approval workflow to manage invoice cancellations and adjustments
 Support consolidation across entities with a variable number of periods and currencies
 Reduce the level of manual intervention required to calculate country level VAT and sales / use taxes
Support An Evolving Pricing Strategy
and Manage Profitability
 Enable functionality to recognize revenue across new pricing models (e.g., value based billing), with flexibility for additional models to be
incorporated in the future
 Provide timely revenue analysis and reporting with access to real time data, eliminating today’s overnight lag
 Develop functionality to link pricing models to actuals to allow real time tracking and evaluate impact on client profit margins enabling
decision makers to make more effective pricing decisions
Mitigate Risk
and Maintain
Systems Stability
 Implement leading practice technology to position the firm as a marquis qualification for this space and build client confidence in Deloitte
capabilities
 Ensure continuity in systems knowledge and expertise by engaging the next generation of ITS and Finance leadership
 Implement an integrated systems environment leveraging SAP standard functionality, where feasible, to minimize the level of customization
and potential for instability
 Mitigate compliance risk by improving the efficiency of the overall partner tax filing process and minimizing the potential for delayed filings
due to systems limitations
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