Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)

Improve financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting by applying AI to your data.

Driving strategic decision-making with ERP-focused planning and analysis

Transform planning across your organization

Make informed business decisions that help your organization achieve its financial and sustainability ambitions
Maximize performance across your organization with integrated planning across departments and divisions
Fast-track your planning projects with prebuilt business accelerators

Plan with confidence using trusted data

Improve security and reduce human error with live connectivity to source data
Achieve faster time to value with analysis integrated with SAP Cloud ERP business semantics

Drive agile decisions with planning and analysis

Boost speed and accuracy with AI-generated insights about your business
Maximize productivity by making analytics available to everyone across your organization

Elevating FP&A with trusted data

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Products

SAP Analytics Cloud

Guide your strategy effectively and achieve your financial and sustainability goals with AI-powered analytics and insights.

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Deliver live synchronized data, intuitive tools, comprehensive data visualizations, and the latest industry best practices. With SAP S/4HANA Cloud, you can scale your organization efficiently and integrate with other systems at a lower cost.

SAP Profitability and Performance Management

Gain critical business insights by extending SAP S/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud calculations to transaction-level detail.

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Creating a source of truth for finance planning transformation

Explore how power tool and equipment manufacturer STIHL is making data-driven decisions that enable consistently effective corporate management.

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200 profit centers aligned with one source of truth

See how transportation and logistics provider Watco enables business-wide collaboration with streamlined financial planning, forecasting, and reporting.

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The latest developments and trends in FP&A

Explore the latest trends and challenges facing finance departments, and learn how FP&A can support organizations in uncertainty by empowering decisions with data.

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SAP recognized as a Leader by Gartner®

Take a look at why Gartner® named SAP as a Leader in its 2024 Magic Quadrant™ report for financial planning software and how you can benefit from our solutions.

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xP&A: FP&A’s role in business transformation

Hear early adopters recommend practical steps that can help kick off your xP&A journey to drive continuous improvement for your business.

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Leadership in integrated planning and analytics

Discover the leading providers of integrated planning and analytics (IP&A) products and portfolios based on scores from BARC's market survey.

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SAP supports simplified, comprehensive financial planning

As strategic business partners, finance teams focus on improving decision-making and increasing agility in unprecedented times. Extended planning and analysis (xP&A) brings together financial and operational plans, resulting in a more agile and aligned organization that’s more responsive to any situation.

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Three strategic forces shaping FP&A today

Learn how three strategic forces in FP&A have emerged to add value to your business and be a true business partner challenges and supports organizational decision-making.

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The extended power of FP&A

Discover how xFP&A can facilitate enterprise-wide alignment of people and plans, while enhancing cross-functional visibility, business coherence, and agility.

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On-Demand Webcast

Plan to win with SAP Analytics Cloud

Join SAP product experts and partners as they walk through live demos, detailed use cases, and inspiring customer stories that reveal the superpower of analytics and planning.

Webinar

Empower the CFO by uniting SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud

Explore the critical advantages, such as improvements in reporting,budgeting, and forecasting,and operational visibility.

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LinkedIn Live

Understand the role of FP&A in achieving ESG goals

Take a deep dive into the responsibilities of FP&A teams and how they can analyze, measure, and contribute to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities.

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Drive planning and analysis process transformation

See a live demo of how a modern finance platform can help your organization drive meaningful change business-wide.

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FP&A evolution: From silos to xP&A

Learn how silos can be broken down in an organization and extended planning and analysis can be adopted.

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People first: Putting the partner in FP&A 2.0

Examine why finance teams need to be less of a back-office function and more of a partner when navigating uncertainty and change.

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Robotic process automation: Finding the "A" in FP&A

Consider why modern robotic process automation (RPA) is vital to operate more efficiently through insightful analytics.

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Frequently asked questions

How are SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP S/4HANA Cloud uniquely integrate?

SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP S/4HANA Cloud are fully integrated as a single financial platform. Due to this unique integration, finance users can work with greater ease within a combined ERP and planning and analytics solution, smoothly navigating between actuals and plans.

As actuals are recorded within SAP S/4HANA Cloud, finance and FP&A professionals can perform variance analysis in real time without requiring batch processes and delays. Common master data elements – such as accounts, legal entities, and segments– from SAP S/4HANA Cloud are available to planners within SAP Analytics Cloud to perform analysis in an automated manner, without manual intervention or updates.

How does financial analytics software relate to FP&A?

Modern financial analytics software, such as SAP Analytics Cloud, is embedded with analytics capabilities. Built-in analytics help planners and FP&A teams interpret the results of forecasts, budgets, and plans better than spreadsheets and through comprehensible visualization. The analytics capabilities of these solutions are also interactive, allowing users to drill into more granular details and directly into source systems such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors solutions, and the SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution for better insight to action.

How is scenario planning accomplished in planning and analysis solutions?

Budgets, forecasts, and plans are often static and based on being scheduled. In addition, scenario planning has become a lot more prevalent because of its immediate need.

Due to the uncertain nature of the macroeconomic environment, geopolitical situations, and other potential disruptions, FP&A departments receive significant pressure to create a scenario plan or establish scenario management to address a specific situation. As a result, scenario planning capabilities within planning and analysis solutions are a necessity to guide and respond to business constituents.

With a few clicks, solutions such SAP Analytics Cloud allow users to create a private version and run unlimited simulations to measure upside, downside, and other potential opportunities and costs with accessible data.

What is the benefit of liquidity planning through SAP Analytics Cloud?

As they complete their finance transformation and integrate their financial platform with SAP Analytics Cloud, many SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers gain additional benefits in FP&A. One such advantage is the ability to perform real-time liquidity planning along with traditional income statement and balance sheet planning activities. With SAP Analytics Cloud, planners can instantly access their cash flow and cash positions, enabling better decision-making.

Furthermore, SAP Analytics Cloud offers built-in predictive analytics capabilities that allow users to forecast future cash balances based on multiple scenarios. An unlimited number of drivers can be updated to influence various cash inflows and outflows, providing flexibility and adaptability in their planning.

To streamline the implementation process, SAP offers prebuilt business accelerators that enable customers to quickly deploy a liquidity planning model. This model complements existing finance and treasury activities within SAP S/4HANA Cloud, resulting in a comprehensive and efficient financial planning solution.

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Are real-time capabilities available in FP&A solutions from SAP?

Yes, SAP Analytics Cloud offers real-time capabilities for its users.

Customers can smoothly view and compare their plans against actual data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud without requiring a batch process. The live connectivity feature enables planners to swiftly identify trends, anomalies, and deviations from their plans, allowing them to detect potential risks and issues.

By providing access to reliable data, SAP Analytics Cloud encourages the practice of continuous improvement within FP&A departments. This approach empowers organizations to proactively implement preventive measures and minimize the impact of potential problems to optimize overall business performance.

How does SAP Datasphere support FP&A?

SAP Datasphere enables a business data fabric that governs and harmonizes data from multiple sources, whether from SAP or other vendors. In return, planning workstreams are facilitated by moving and transforming data structures into a single source for reliable analysis.

By preserving critical business context and relationships in the data, SAP Datasphere saves planners' time and simplifies integration and harmonization across different planning granularities. This solution increases flexibility, despite the growing complexity in the enterprise landscape, to help ensure a comprehensive planning process without sacrificing accuracy or detail.

Furthermore, SAP Datasphere empowers decision-making by supplying holistic and trusted data. It supports the integration and harmonization of SAP and third-party data sources, breaking down silos between systems and departments.

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