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Financial Close and Disclosure

Management on Cloud

Justin Lai – Product Manager

15 September 2015

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Introduction to IBM’s Cloud Solutions

On Cloud OR On Premise?

– Considerations

– Benefits of each

Financial Close and Disclosure Management on Cloud

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Cloud is redefining technology, business and entire industries.

We are at an inflection point.

Mobile customer targeting

Card swipe in one store

attracts coupons from

nearby store—resulting in

109% incremental sales lift

Just-in-time maintenance

Fast Big Data analysis

Global aircraft engine manufacturer

increases service revenue by

12%

Global stock exchange cuts response times of market surveillance algorithms by

99% 35%

in one year using real-

time monitoring and

proactive fault detection

while lowering

IT resources by using a big data

analysis platform.

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SaaS is transforming business and IT

Align Organizations

Stay Secure

Scale Globally

Integrate Systems

Preserve Choice

Blueprint for SaaS success

Business and IT leaders get rapid access to specific domain expertise through SaaS solutions designed for their roles

Business leaders can make better decisions and be more agile

IT can deliver more of the right solutions to the business faster

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Key offerings: IBM Watson Analytics

Watson Analytics delivers powerful analytics for any business user by

bringing together a complete set of self-service analytics capabilities on the

cloud.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud

Enables organizations to build reports and dashboards leveraging

corporate data

IBM Social Media Analytics

Uncover and transform consumer sentiment into actionable insights

IBM Watson Engagement Advisor

Lowers the barriers to engagement between customers and companies

IBM Navigator

Easy file sharing for business

IBM Cognos Sales Performance Management

Drive sales performance, improve accuracy and reduce commission cycles

IBM Cognos TM1

Transform the entire planning cycle: target setting, budgeting, reporting,

scorecarding, analysis and forecasting

IBM Cognos Disclosure Management

Automate financial reporting production and process

IBM Cognos Controller

Optimize financial close and consolidation

IBM Algorithmics

Enables financial institutions and corporate treasuries to make risk-aware

business decisions

Marketing

Risk

IBM Cloud for Analytics accelerates the ability to turn information

into insights…focused on high-value initiatives in core business

areas

With IBM analytics software in the

cloud, you can:

• Achieve faster time-to-value for your

business analytics deployment

• Improve your project success rate

• Provide more user communities with

access to the business analytics

needed to drive your business forward

• Ease the path to business analytics

implementation

Sales

Finance

Enterprise-wide

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Introduction to IBM’s Cloud Solutions

On Cloud OR On Premise?

– Considerations

– Benefits of each

Financial Close and Disclosure Management on Cloud

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Deployment flexibility to meet your needs today and tomorrow

Cloud On premises

Our place or yours?

Joining 100+ solutions on the IBM Cloud

On cloud OR on premise?

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Cloud Considerations

Implementation Support &

Maintenance Upgrade Cycles

Security Integrations Scalability

Cost

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Benefits of Cloud

Lower Cost of

Ownership

• Reduce IT overhead without sacrificing business

revenue

• Increased utilization rates on less HW

Time-to-Value • Rapid delivery of an environment using best practices

• End to end deployment in hours rather than weeks

• Bypass IT backlog

• The ability to shift costs from capital to operating

expenses

• Eliminate up front capital expenditures

Cost Accounting

• Organizations can add users as needed without

worrying about procuring new hardware and other

infrastructure components, reducing capital ex. Scalability

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Benefits of On Premise

Total Cost of

Ownership

• Low monthly subscription, but over time total costs can

add up.

• Consider costs after 3 years. After 5 years.

Regulatory

Compliance

• Some industries or applications require adherence to

specific guidelines. Is the Cloud vendor’s solution

compliant?

• US Patriot Act requires some companies to keep data

within the US

• Corporate policies around sensitive or confidential data

Data control

Scalability

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Introduction to IBM’s Cloud Solutions

On Cloud OR On Premise?

– Considerations

– Benefits of each

Financial Close and Disclosure Management on Cloud

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FCDM on Cloud

Desktop Clients On-premise

Data Sources

Cloud Overview

Desktop Clients

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Data Center Locations

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CDM DB CDM

Server

IBM IBM

Cloud Ops

CDM on Cloud

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CDM on Cloud Considerations

• CDM client installed on desktops via

Click-Once deployement

• Limited support for Excel add-in style

data sources (e.g. HFM) not currently

available.

• Not currently available to FFIEC or US

Federal

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Controller

DB Controller

Server

IBM IBM

Cloud Ops

Controller on Cloud

Citrix

Server

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Controller on Cloud Considerations

• Integration to CDM and TM1 is limited

• Staging tables not supported. Data

import from flat file only.

• Accessible only through Citrix

• Not currently available to FFIEC or US

Federal

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