The Next Generation Business Suite

Run Simple in the digital economy Drive digital transformation with the ultimate sophistication: simplicity

The business landscape is increasingly digital, networked

and complex. It is expected that by the end of 2020, there will

be 9 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide. The number of

connected devices will increase nearly 30-fold in just over a

decade, growing from about 900 million connected devices in

2009 to more than 30 billion by 2020. The Internet of Things

will create over $3 trillion in economic opportunities by 2025.

We are in the middle of a digital transformation where every

business is becoming a digital business and change is coming

fast. Businesses need to face it – or get disrupted. However,

complexity stands in a way of the digital transformation effort.

Complexity comes at an enormous cost

High levels of complexity are exacting a real, ongoing toll on

businesses. According to the survey of more than 750 business

managers by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (HBR

AS), 86% of respondents feel that their business processes and

decision making had become so complex as to hinder their ability

to grow in a digital economy. In fact, the 200 biggest companies

in the world are losing over 10% of their annual profit because of

complexity – over $237 billion. How do we pull ourselves out from

this expanding quagmire of complexity?

The answer is SIMPLE

Run your enterprise with the ultimate sophistication – simplicity.

Simple is about mastering the complexity that is inevitable

and turning it into a competitive advantage. So that you can

generate new opportunities for innovation and growth. Forge new

partnerships in the digital economy. Create unique advantages.

Transform supply chains. Today SAP is making it simple for

organizations to implement better solutions to innovate and

simple for people to more easily control the complexity in their

jobs and lives. New software from SAP lets you rethink enterprise

management, simplify and run the organization in real time, and

connect people, networks, and systems.

This is why SAP launched: SAP S/4HANA, the digital business

foundation to help enterprises run simple in a digital economy.

The greatest barrier to digital transformation is

COMPLEXITY

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40% of management time is wasted on nonrevenue-generating activity

COMPLEX DECISION MAKING

<1% of today’s data is being turned into business benefits

COMPLEX TECHNOLOGY

63% of executives want to simplify business operations

COMPLEX BUSINESS PROCESSES

€237 BILLIONin annual profits are lost by the world’s top 200 companies (10% of profits)

Why SAP? We help the world run better

As the market leader in enterprise application software, we help

organizations of all sizes and industries combat the damaging effects

of complexity, generate new opportunities for innovation and growth,

and stay ahead of the competition.

43-year history of innovation

In 1972, five entrepreneurs had a vision for the business potential of

technology. With one customer and a handful of employees, SAP set out on

a path that would not only transform the world of information technology,

but also forever change the way companies do business. Now 43 years and

291,000 customers stronger, we’re just getting started. Building on a track

record of innovation and a vision proven true throughout every economic

and IT shift, now more than ever, SAP is fueled by the pioneering spirit that

inspired its founders to continually transform the IT industry.

TODAY:

• More than 291,000 customers run SAP

• 87% of the Forbes Global 2000 companies

• 80% of SAP customers are SMEs

• 74% of the world’s transaction revenue

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SAP CUSTOMERS INCLUDE:

• 98% of the 100 most valued brands

• 100% of the Dow Jones top scoring

sustainability companies

OUR CUSTOMERS PRODUCE…

• 78% of the world’s food

• 82% of the world’s medical devices

• 69% of the world’s toys and games

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SAP S/4HANA, The Digital Business Foundation Reimagined suite for reimagined business

To help enterprises run simple, we are breaking all limitations of the past. Building on 40 years of experience across industries, the new suite was built on the most advanced in-memory platform today – SAP HANA – and modern design principles with the SAP Fiori user experience (UX).

SAP S/4HANA delivers massive simplifications (customer adoption,

data model, user experience, decision making, business processes

and models) and innovations (Internet of Things, Big Data, business

networks, and mobile-first) to drive instant value across lines of

business and industries. Deployable in the cloud, on-premise or

hybrid, SAP S/4HANA offers real choice for a reduced total cost

of ownership and full flexibility in executing your business and IT

strategies.

In the digital economy, staying ahead of the competition through

integrated processes, data, and networks to predict and simulate

outcomes is the future. Being able to predict what your customers are

likely to want, closing your books 72 hours earlier, better forecasting,

segmenting pipeline, creating P&Ls on the fly, reinventing and

simulating a business model…This is what it means to run real-time,

run networked, and run simple.

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What SAP leaders are saying about

SAP S/4HANAPROF. DR. H.C. HASSO PLATTNER SAP Co-Founder and and Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board

“We have a completely new system built on HANA, a completely new database, a completely new user experience, and a completely new customization. It’s a new system”

BILL McDERMOTT SAP CEO

“SAP S/4HANA is the biggest product launch in the last 23 years and perhaps in the company’s history”

BERND LEUKERT Products & Innovation, Member of the Executive Board

“Companies have to move from selling products to selling outcomes, and SAP S/4HANA is the only path to make this transformation”

WIELAND SCHREINER Executive Vice President and Chief Product Owner for SAP S/4HANA

“With SAP S/4HANA, simplification and innovation are built in, providing the foundation for a business future that is defined by the massive amounts of information produced”

MARKUS SCHWARZ SVP and General Manager, S/4HANA Go-to-Market

“SAP S/4HANA provides a foundation that our customers can use to ready themselves for the digital and networked economy, both on the IT side and the business side”

Video: SAP S/4HANA Launch Event

Keynote: Reimagine the Promise at the Heart of Your Business

The Foundation to Run Simple

Reimagine your business with SAP S/4HANAValue for your Business

Internet of Thingsdrive innovative business models

Big Dataquickly uncover hidden business opportunities

Business Networkscovering over 1.7 million connected companies

REIMAGINED BUSINESS MODELS

Real-Time Insightfrom any device on any data

Prediction & Simulationanticipating impact of business outcomes

Personalizedrole-based user experience

REIMAGINED BUSINESS DECISIONS

Simplicityto focus on the essential tasks

Real-Timeto run at unprecedented speed

Best Business Practicesbased on +40 years of industry experience

REIMAGINED BUSINESS PROCESSES

REIMAGINED BUSINESS MODELS

Simplicity to connect to people, devices, and business networks in real time to

unlock the potential of the networked economy and deliver new experiences

and value to customers. The Internet of Things and Big Data become accessible

to any business – no more complex business collaboration and interactions.

REIMAGINED BUSINESS DECISIONS

Simplicity to get any insight on any data from anywhere in real time: planning,

execution, prediction, and simulation are now all done on the fly at the highest

level of granularity to drive faster business impact – no more complex data

consolidation through Microsoft Excel

REIMAGINED BUSINESS PROCESSES

Simplicity to focus on the essential tasks in real-time and gain flexibility and

agility to change business processes as needed for new efficiencies – no more

extensive batch processing

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Reimagine your user experience with SAP S/4HANAValue for your Business Users

REIMAGINED USER EXPERIENCE

SAP S/4HANA is natively designed with the most modern,

role-based user experience (UX): SAP Fiori.

With SAP Fiori, you can provide instant value to any user,

in any role, in any line of business.

All business users can enjoy the simplicity to get the

job done across lines of business with a personalized,

responsive, and simple user experience available on any

device – no more complex and different user interfaces.

Simplifying the user experience (UX) for business

software provides value that impacts your bottom line.

Key benefits include sky-high employee productivity,

increased adoption, fewer change requests, so that

employees can focus on high-value tasks.

User Experience (UX) Value Calculator

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SAP S/4HANA creates unique

opportunities to dramatically simplify

your IT and innovate faster. It enables

you to significantly reduce your data

footprint and allows you to work

with larger data sets by bringing

transactions and analytics together

into a single in-memory platform.

This means saving hardware costs,

operational costs, and time. You will no

longer face discrepancies between the

different systems with one common

source of live data on one system.

Reimagine your IT with SAP S/4HANAValue for your IT

REIMAGINED DATA MODELShrink your data footprint – and your IT costs – with a simplified data

model. Say goodbye to indices, aggregates, and data redundancies once

and for all. When the business wants a new reporting model or process, you

no longer have to spend days or even weeks rebuilding aggregates and ETL

scripts (Extract, Transform, Load).

REIMAGINED DEPLOYMENTSimplify your deployment by aligning it to business needs. SAP S/4HANA

gives you choice with two editions – on-premise and cloud – and easy

adoption for faster time to value.

REIMAGINED PLATFORMLeverage an open platform to innovate advanced applications – predicting,

recommending, simulating – for driving future growth while protecting your

existing investments.

The SAP HANA Cloud Platform serves as open extension, agility layer for

SAP S/4HANA. The extensions built on the cloud platform can run against

either deployment of SAP S/4HANA: in the cloud and on premise.

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SAP HANA is an innovation platform that has been designed to serve as

a foundation for a new breed of applications. SAP HANA has completely

transformed the database industry by combining database, data processing,

and application platform capabilities in a single in-memory platform.

SAP HANA makes it possible for applications and analytics to be rethought

without information processing latency, and sense-and-response solutions can

work on massive quantities of real-time datafor immediate answers without

building pre-aggregates. Simply put — this makes SAP HANA the platform for

building and deploying next-generation, real-time applications and analytics.

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What is SAP HANA?

SAP S/4HANA On-premise and Cloud Editions

SAP S/4HANA, ON-PREMISE EDITIONdesigned for enterprises across industries that need a deep and broad level of functionality

combined with a high degree of flexibility in customization

SAP S/4HANA, CLOUD EDITIONDesigned for enterprises that need a standardized cloud offering primarily covering the core business

scenarios of an enterprise or specific business scenarios of lines of business in industries - combined

with a fast innovation cycle (quarterly)

Three offerings are currently available as part of the SAP S/4HANA, cloud edition:

• SAP S/4HANA, cloud marketing edition – for the marketing line of business

• SAP S/4HANA, cloud project services edition – for the professional services industry

• SAP S/4HANA, cloud enterprise edition – for a full ERP scope

The SAP S/4HANA editions offer the opportunity for customers to deploy real hybrid scenarios – combining

on-premise and cloud solutions – for unprecedented IT flexibility and accelerated business innovation.

SAP S/4HANA, Cloud Edition FAQ

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On-PremiseEdition

SAP S/4HANA Applications and Extensions instant insight-driven applications for all lines of business and industries

SAP HANA Platform in-memory platform for all data

SAP Fiori UX role-based user experience for all devices

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Native integration for hybrid scenarios

People

Devices

Big Data

Internetof Things

BusinessNetworks

SocialNetworks

CloudEdition

SAP Simple Finance Drive Finance Transformation with Instant Insight

The SAP Simple Finance solution marked the first step in our SAP S/4HANA journey

for customers. The solution has demonstrated the value of IT simplification (for example,

no indices, no aggregates, and no redundancies) and instant insight in Finance.

Every application that will be part of SAP S/4HANA will

share the same design principles: a simple data model,

personalized and modern UX, and flexible deployment with

cloud, on-premise, and hybrid models. SAP S/4HANA is

indeed new, with a new code line and capabilities. However,

SAP S/4HANA keeps the same semantic model as its

predecessor, for ease of migration and rapid adoption.

With SAP Simple Finance, IT and Finance departments

have an unprecedented opportunity to bring simplification

and innovation to finance. Finance organizations have been

fighting complexity for many years instead of focusing on

strategic initiatives, like predicting future outcomes and

simulating new business models. Now that has changed.

At SAP, we attacked complexity in financial systems by

re-architecting our industry-leading finance solution to take

full advantage of SAP HANA, our modern, in-memory data

platform. The result is SAP Simple Finance powered by SAP

HANA. With the resulting simplicity, IT and finance alike can

now operate more strategically, freed from technology limits

of the past.

Journey Map for SAP Simple Finance

SAP Simple Finance Flipbook

SAP Simple Finance Introduction for IT

SAP Simple Finance

Run a Next Generation Enterprise The Boardroom Redefined

Connect the boardroom to people, places, and devices

Understand the past, predict the future and drive execution

Monitor, simulate and drive change in real-time

Top 10 facts about Boardroom Redefined

Business leaders in the digital economy need contextualized, real-time

information to make the decisions needed today and enable change to

drive the future outcomes. Today, most of these leaders are challenged

by heterogeneous reporting solutions and meetings dominated by static

content. The Boardroom Redefined reinvents the Boardroom with a new

enterprise experience giving business leaders an instant and harmonized

view across all company operations. Using real-time reporting capabilities,

leaders have the ability to instantly understand the past, predict the

future and drive immediate decision and execution. With SAP S/4HANA,

the boardroom discussions are based on instant insight, resulting in live

interactions and fact-based decision making.

The Boardroom Redefined Showcase Overview DemoProf. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, SAP Co-Founder and Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board, explains the “Boardroom Redefined”

Spotlight on Customers See how our customers are driving their digital transformation

The European Schools are controlled jointly by the 28 European Union member states and institutions. Since 1953, they have provided broad, high-quality education from nursery school through university. Today, there are 14 European Schools in seven countries with 4,000 employees serving 25,000 students.

To ensure all school operations are aligned, the organization needed to replace

a custom IT system that was more than 20 years old. Using a rapid-deployment

solution, European Schools deployed SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA and the

SAP Simple Finance solution. The first organization to launch the SAP Simple

Finance cloud solution, European Schools are streamlining processes for

greater accountability while ensuring all European Schools are aligned with

one another and have standardized and secure financial processes.

Newsbyte: European Schools Select SAP Simple Finance to Empower Users and Better Serve Students

Business Transformation Study: European Schools: Simplifying and Innovating with SAP® Simple Finance

Since 2002 Convergent has helped over 100 customers enable their mobile enterprises including Fortune500, mid-market, and government agencies. Convergent designs and implements beautifully simple solutions to transform the enterprise experience.

When Convergent IS grew from 10 to 30 employees in 12 months, the company started

looking for software that would not become a limiting factor for growth. They have made

the decision to move their financial system from QuickBook to SAP Simple Finance.

“ As a business still in the SME segment, Convergent already has many of the same

needs you find in a large enterprise, so we needed a solution that would run the

company as fast as we’re growing. Now that we are live on SAP Simple Finance, the

benefit from our investment in a sophisticated system clearly makes sense for

a company at any size. SAP Simple Finance provides a quantum leap forward from

the small business systems we were using by centralizing and automating our financial

processes and allowing us to focus on other areas of the business. Never before has

a small fast-growing company had such deep insight into real-time transactions,

margin, and cash flow, all while working from a single source of the truth for reporting

and financial ”

Shaun Syvertsen, Managing Partner, Convergent IS

SAP Simple Finance: Gateway For The Little Guy

Video interview: Convergentis swaps Quickbooks for SAP Simple Finance

Spotlight on Customers See how our customers are driving their digital transformation

Recognized by the plumbing and HVAC

industry as a market leader, GEBERIT

is transforming business processes to

stay ahead in the market for its globally

renowned products.

GEBERIT’s Presentation at SAPPHIRE 2015

GEBERIT decided to migrate all

of their finance and controlling

applications to SAP S/4HANA,

through SAP Simple Finance. The

company soon started realizing

the benefits of easy access to

real-time information supporting

faster, better decision-making, and

simplifying database maintenance.

The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale

provider of reinsurance, insurance and other

insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing

direct and working through brokers, its global

client base consists of insurance companies,

mid-to-large-sized corporations and public

sector clients. From standard products

to tailor-made coverage across all lines of

business, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength,

expertise and innovation power to enable the

risk taking upon which enterprise and progress

in society depend.

Swiss Re’s Presentation at SAPPHIRE 2015

Swiss Re started reducing risk and simplifying operations by bringing

together transactional processes with real-time analytical capabilities on

one common finance platform: the SAP Simple Finance solution through

SAP S/4HANA.

Spotlight on Customers See how our customers are driving their digital transformation

La Trobe University’s 2017

objectives are to attract and

retain exceptional students

and staff, digitally connect its

campuses, become a Global

‘Top 500’ university, leverage

its network and create trusted

partnerships, and maintain the

sustainability of its intellectual,

physical and financial

resources.

La Trobe University simplified its IT

landscape using the SAP Simple Finance

solution with the SAP HANA Enterprise

Cloud service and cloud solutions from

the SAP for HR solution portfolio.

Panel Discussion with La Trobe

La Trobe University Runs Simple with SAP Simple Finance and S/4HANA

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PROJECT MANAGEREasily create, plan, staff, and bill customer projects

CASH MANAGERInstantly monitor cash movements, balances and liquidity

GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTANTEffortlessly review financial statements, account balances, and individual line items

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE ACCOUNTANTQuickly process incoming payments, collect cash, and clear customer accounts

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCOUNTANTEfficiently review and manage vendor accounts and invoices

MARKETING EXPERTEffortlessly analyze contact data, create target groups, and trigger campaigns

A fully configured trial system with real-life sample data allows you to explore predefined scenarios within the

SAP S/4HANA cloud edition. Role-based guided tours help you to navigate through the system, get to know the

modern Fiori-based user experience and discover the innovative business solutions offered by SAP S/4HANA.

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SAP S/4HANA deployment is designed to be non-disruptive for

customers. SAP has an established partner ecosystem that is ready

to help you on your transformation journey with the new suite.

Partners and SAP will support you with predefined migration,

system conversion in the cloud, and deployment packages for

quicker time to value. Companies of all sizes will benefit from the

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