Finance transformation often stalls when planning and close are spread across fragmented ERPs, disconnected teams, and spreadsheet-heavy processes that slow decisions and limit scalability. In this session, NTT DATA Business Solutions shares its journey to establish an integrated Enterprise Performance Management foundation using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SimpleFi Solutions' EPM Applications to unify planning, reporting, and financial consolidations in a single platform. 
You will hear how the team prioritized speed-to-value by leveraging SimpleFi's expertise and application content (without “starting from scratch”). The session will walk through a practical roadmap that sequences capability rollout across consolidations and global planning design, headcount planning, pipeline and revenue planning, expenses and direct costs, and ultimately CapEx, balance sheet, and cash flow to deliver an end-to-end finance view for the CFO.Beyond the architecture, the speakers will outline their execution “compass”: design for expansion, ensure finance-led ownership, keep clarity of vision, and accelerate responsibly with IP, reinforced by lessons on sequencing, cross-functional collaboration, and early data quality readiness.Finally, the session will quantify why this matters: reducing manual extraction and spreadsheet risk, enabling automated synchronization, improving transparency of assumptions, and delivering real-time analytics and cost-center-level planning with consolidated views.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how to deliver SAP Enterprise Performance Management using SimpleFi’s EPM Applications (with SAP Analytics Cloud) to unify planning, reporting, and Financial Planning and Consolidations in one platform.

• Identify why finance transformation stalls in fragmented ERP and spreadsheet-heavy environments, and what to change to regain speed and scalability.

• Understand a pragmatic rollout roadmap across consolidations, global planning design, headcount, pipeline and revenue, expenses and direct costs, and ultimately CapEx, balance sheet, and cash flow.

• Discover how to accelerate speed-to-value by leveraging proven application content and expert delivery, avoiding “start-from-scratch” implementations.

• Take away execution principles and measurable outcomes: design for expansion, finance-led ownership, data readiness, reduced manual extraction and spreadsheet risk, automated synchronization, transparent assumptions, and real-time analytics.