CFOspace. EY Digital Finance Lab. Showcases and first impressions

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1 CFOspace EY Digital Finance Lab Showcases and first impressions

2 The CFOspace is a physical, mental and digital place where, together with our CFO clients, we ask better questions and explore innovative new technologies that will help them face the challenges and opportunities of continuous change, digitization, and disruption for the finance function. Imagine a simple screen transforming into a 360 audio and video experience where you have various data sources right there at your fingertips and innovative finance scenarios are coming to life in the most interactive way. Page 2

3 The CFOspace the initiator s idea We want to demonstrate disruptive technologies of today and tomorrow, and define, together with our clients and our professionals, the right way for your finance and Global Business Services (GBS) organization. Christian Mertin Executive Sponsor EY Digital Finance Lab EY Global Solution Leader Global Business Services Page 3 3

4 The CFOspace showcase overview The CFOspace is a digital working environment for CFOs and their direct reportees, showcasing advanced ways of using today s technology. Showcases provide clients with insights into relevant trends, challenges and innovative technologies for finance and GBS. The aim is to present technical solutions by EY professionals (so called showcase owners) to initiate development and simulation of individual solutions, together with our clients in our interactive lab environment. Phase one of CFOspace is starting now with seven showcases. Outlook: We will expand and add further showcases soon in 2017 and CFO Onboarding Agile Business Finance Digital Finance Digital Boardroom CFOspace showcases Agile Business Analytics Robotic process automation (RPA) Global Business Services (GBS) Page 4 4

5 Showcase: Agile Business Analytics Showcase owner: Dr. Andreas Reiser Senior Manager, Advisory Ernst & Young GmbH Provides a broad picture of how a modern analytics and reporting landscape can look like based on various state-of-the-art business analytics tools along the main business functions Provides insights into real-time analysis of data by applying cloud-based business intelligence and analytic tools This showcase will help you to answer the following questions: What do modern analytics and reporting landscape look like? What are the useful business analytic tools, methods and models to drive my finance organization? How can these tools be integrated along the main business functions? In our workshop for agile business analytics, we take you on an incredible trip by giving an overview about the analytics tools, methods and models along the main business functions. After that, we integrate the group environment, such as the enterprise data warehouse and consolidation solutions, to the business environment. At the end of the workshop, you will have the full overview about what kind of analytics tools, such as cloud environment or big data, you can integrate in to your business. (Dr. Andreas Reiser) Page 5 5

6 Showcase: Agile Business Finance Showcase owner: Jos Töller Partner, Advisory Leader Agile Business Finance, GSA Ernst & Young GmbH Experience ways of combining EY s industry-specific finance experience with SAP s IT application to identify relevant topics for clients Showcase support provided by SAP S/4 HANA to increase process efficiency and enable real-time decision-making Understand possible integration scenarios with related applications This showcase will help you to answer the following questions: How can technology help to increase the agility of finance and how can finance run in a more agile way? How can new technologies, such as SAP S/4 HANA, real-time consolidation and process controls, work together and help you to improve your finance processes? What is your road map to become an agile finance organization? Agile Business Finance means for us a finance function that is able to provide strategic advice, actionable and timely insights. At the same time, it also provides efficiency in managing finance processes and business risks. (Jos Töller) Page 6 6

7 Showcase: CFO Onboarding Showcase owner: Dr. Verena Metzger Manager, Advisory Ernst & Young GmbH Discover the evolving role of the CFO their hopes, fears and legacy Discuss the initiatives and priorities Define and evaluate relationships, and assess the first 180 days as CFO This showcase will help to answer the following questions: How should the CFO define his or her role in the future? What characteristics do CFOs need and how will their tasks develop in the future? What are the hopes, fears and legacy of the attending CFOs? What are the strategic priorities and initiatives of the CFOs? How can the CFO improve the relationship management and what is his or her road map for the first 180 days in this role? In our CFOspace, we provide you a highly interactive and innovative workshop environment in which you can increase your creativity. With our broad knowledge and experience we can collaborate with you to define your roadmap to become a successful CFO. (Dr. Verena Metzger) Page 7 7

8 Showcase: Digital Finance Showcase owners: Florian Hess Senior Manager, Advisory Ernst & Young GmbH Helmut Rattenberger Assistant Director, Advisory Ernst & Young AG Co-create your response to the digital revolution, understand latest trends, and identify areas of focus and actions to futureproof your finance function Get an interactive digital readiness evaluation and gap analysis on process, organization and people readiness This showcase will help you to answer the following questions: How does your accounting, controlling and corporate finance organization look today, tomorrow and in the future? What are the mandatory prerequisites for your digital finance future, and which technology, such as predictive analytics and blockchain, can help you in the future? What is your strategy to become a digital finance organization? What are your next steps and the road map to realize the objective of becoming a digital finance organization? The EY Digital Finance showcase provides an outstanding journey exploring the finance function of tomorrow. We are providing a broad overview about the future technology impact on the finance function. (Helmut Rattenberger) Page 8 8

9 Showcase: Global Business Services (GBS) Showcase owner: Niklas Oldiges Partner, Advisory Solution Leader GBS, GSA Ernst & Young GmbH Display the relevance of GBS in the market and its development potential Participate in an interactive dive into GBS operating model, process scope, latest hot spots, infrastructure must-haves and talent acquisition Highlight GBS leading practices and trends This showcase will help you to answer the following questions: What is the relevance of GBS in the market and which development potential can you use in your organization? What are the leading practices and trends of GBS? What is the most appropriate operating model, design sprint, sourcing scenario, location strategy or business case topic for your GBS organization? What does your GBS model look like in the future and how could you set up end-to-end process architectures? What I personally want to achieve with the CFOspace is that my clients walk out of the session with a totally changed mindset, inspired to innovate and to collaborate. (Niklas Oldiges) Page 9 9

10 Showcase: Robotic process automation (RPA) Showcase owner: Martin Weis Partner, Advisory RPA Leader, EMEIA Ernst & Young AG Gain insights into the impact of RPA in your organization today and tomorrow Get an overview of RPA in the markets and discover major trends Define and identify the potential of RPA and discuss RPA s impact on your future organization This showcase will help you to answer the following questions: What is RPA and what are the major trends in the market? What is the right approach for an RPA project? What is the impact of RPA in your organization today and tomorrow? How can RPA help you in the future to reach your organizational goals? With the RPA showcase, the bot really comes to life in front of you. We set up this lab so that we can make you more familiar with robotics and see for yourself how this works. We invite you in our CFOspace to convince you of the potential of the technology and corresponding benefits for your organization. (Martin Weis) Page 10 10

11 Showcase: Digital Boardroom Showcase owner: Tristan Werner Partner, Advisory Ernst & Young GmbH Explore the Digital Boardroom platform and its collaboration tools to see how data can be analyzed live Showcase various functional, sector-specific and cross-functional perspectives (Performance Improvement Finance, People Advisory Services Talent and PI Customer) using the Digital Boardroom Discuss cases and analyze shown data (e.g., balance sheet and KPIs) This showcase will enable you to answer the following questions: What is the relevant future and strategy for your company, based on a specific data analysis? Which functional and sector-specific perspectives are applicable for your company? How can these perspectives affect your company in the future? What is the specific road map to transform the company into an digital enterprise? EY has developed different cases in the Digital Boardroom on functional (e.g., PI Finance, Tax and Risk) and sector-specific perspectives (e.g., Media & Entertainment) in order to discuss and analyze the shown data. Further, the lab provides an opportunity to experiment with live data for the purpose of promoting real-time decision-making, simulation and visualization. (Tristan Werner) Page 11 11

12 The CFOspace the collaboration room of the future Characteristics The CFOspace specializes on finance and GBS, dedicated to CFOs and their direct reportees. It provides predefined content showcases and live demonstration of applications possible for a maximum of 20 persons per session. It should position EY as a thought leader in imagining and shaping the future of finance. It builds the physical space to co-innovate with clients following our think disruptive, experiment and scale fast approach. Technical features Hardware features 360 environment with four touchable walls 3 Microsoft Surface devices and 16 ipads Light, surround speakers and video cameras Microsoft HoloLens More to come Apple AirPlay Software features Skype and Cisco video conference Finance analysis and simulation with SAP Digital Boardroom Live voting app Ventuz Virtualization Skripting, EY intranet Big data analysis with S/4 HANA Clickshare More to come Page 12 12

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