SAP Analytics Cloud Proof of Concept on AWS

This POC can be a start to providing a Financial Roadmap that reflects what the business has done and should do, what can and will impact it and how those impacts will be felt and mitigated. A plan that evolves with the business and a process that connects seamlessly with the entire organization. Unfortunately, due to legacy technology and the time sensitive nature of the need, most FP&A processes devolve into data collection and verification exercises, where data points and participants are reduced to simplify the process and compress time. Still, the overall process is a herculean manual effort aimed mostly at "creating and loading the model". The result is a sub-optimized plan that leaves FP&A little time to support, inform, analyze, and partner with the business.

Common Client Issues:

• Are you working in multiple applications to perform analytics, planning, aggregating, etc.?
• Are the limitations of sharing data forcing you to download/export data to other tools for analysis?
• Do you own and use SAP BPC, BW, Excel, etc., but want to modernize your approach to the cloud and take advantage of new features and functionality (e.g., advance analytics, AI, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, etc.)?
• Have you recently deployed S4 or CFIN or have an existing legacy system and want to understand how SAC can help transform your process?
• Does your planning or closing cycle take too long? Do you spend too much time on inputs and calculations? Do you want more modern planning, forecasting, budgeting, or analytics?
• Does your environment lack stability and scalability? Moving this to the AWS platform would significantly mitigate this risk.

What's Included:

• Custom Application Support: assisting with project management, monitoring, training, testing and managing / administrating applications with an experienced consultant.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Expertise in SAP Analytics Cloud, Training, Data Imports from S/4HANA or ECC, installing pre-built standard content (i.e., connection to source system, models, stories)
• Formulized training to improve User Experience and Adoption.

Main Service Components

1. Pre-Project

• Align business strategy with technology
• Create a bill of materials for a consistent business case
• Agreement with AWS to migrate and manage platform

2. Delivery

• Functional setup and business process engineering
• Project management office (PMO) and change management
• Integration to SAP Source System (i.e., ECC or S/4HANA) and network adoption
• Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI)
• Security and compliance measures
• Scheduling Import jobs
• Software and Infrastructure
• Subscription services including software, maintenance, support, and infrastructure
• SAP Technology Sustainability Support Services (Optional)

3. Operations

• Functional and technical support as agreed upon
• Future enhancements roadmap