SAP Financials OnDemand What, Why, and How

At SAPPHIRE NOW Madrid, I caught up with Jim D’Addario, Sr. Director SAP Cloud Solutions Marketing at SAP, to talk about the brand-new SAP Finance OnDemand product.

We covered topics such as:

• Where did Financials OnDemand come from?
• Who is interested in this type of solution?
• What about Finance reluctance to move to cloud-based solutions?
• What are the advantages of a cloud-based system specifically for finance?
• How can the system let business people track information without having to change the chart of accounts?
• What’s different about the user interface compared to a traditional financial system?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IOcJqs03kVU

Here’s a demonstration of the product in action — note the great integration of analytics, mobile, and collaboration.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RQL2dyiqCqE

You can read more of Jim’s thoughts on cloud topics on his blog at “SAP in the Cloud“, with posts such as “Can Finance People Learn to Love the Cloud?“