Service Stream executive vision for standardisation, scalability, organisation maturity and future growth requires a modern technology platform to enable efficient governance of processes and data. The existing enterprise platform stack was not been able to provide the standardisation, level of capability, support for innovation and cost efficiency required. SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud has been chosen during open market assessment to play that key role as the future financial heart and backbone of the organisation. The transformation program is currently running with the high level of internal and external support.

Corporate Finance and Commercial teams are leading the charge in this area. They are inviting onboard other business critical functions as well as information technology and analytics teams to support the initiative which indicates optimal relationship balance for the future success.

This session will explore the business drivers and key expected qualitative business benefits supporting the business case, the high level vision, future roadmap and learnings from the Design phase.

What You'll Learn:

• What were the winning factors for choosing SAP S/4 Public Cloud?
• What are key innovation capabilities in finance specifically for project and service accounting, contracts, revenue recognition, billing, banking, profitability analysis, controls and reporting?
• What fit-to-standard design looks like when SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is applied at enterprise scale
• What the team has underestimated, learned and would approach differently.