DATA QUALITY PROCESS DEFINITION

• Data model analysis for data lineage structuring (IT Systems map and data directory.)
• Definition of data governance models

CONTROL ASSESSMENT & MONITORING

• Control model design (control mechanisms definition for designated use).
• Definition of Data Quality dimensions (e.g. accuracy, completeness, consistency).
• Control mechanisms representation and assessment (robustness index).
• Operational monitoring of control mechanism (conformity index).

SAP INFORMATION STEWARD

• SAP Information Steward implementation (Data Discovery, Data lineage, Data Governance).

MODELING & OPERATIONAL DEFINITION

• Definition of organizational and management model (MOG) compliant with Legislative degree 231/2001.
• Preparation of outsourcing policy and procedures.
• Outsourcing risk management model definition for SLA monitoring.
• Operational risk modeling

RISK & CONTROL ASSESSMENT

• Assessment of risk-crime hypothesis at process level.
• Control mapping and assessment (crime and fraud map, process-crime matrix).
• Definition of SOD Matrix (Segregation of Duties).
• Outsourced activities assessment and gap analysis for contract restructuring.
• Reporting design for SLA monitoring

SAP GOVERNANCE RISK & COMPLIANCE IMPLEMENTATION

• SAP GRC implementation– process control for the management of governance and framework of Internal Control Systems compliant with Legislative degree 231/2001.
• SAP GRC implementation – access control for IT access and permission management
• IT implementation for monitoring SLA quality management at process level.
• IT implementation for CRO sign off management (issuing of attestations on procedures).

DATA MODELING & GOVERNANCE DEFINITION

• Preparation of data protection framework compliant with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• Data governance and organization design (accountability).
• Definition of Policy (roles and responsibilities in data processing) and procedures (e.g. Data Breach, Identity management, Personal Data Deletion, Informed consents, etc.)
• Preparation of a data protection register.

PRIVACY RISK & CONTROL ASSESSMENT

• Data Privacy Risk assessment (ISO-IEC 29134 e 29151)
• Roadmap definition for remediation plan.

SAP SECURITY IMPLEMENTATION

• IT Systems Security Assessment according to SAP Security best practices.
• Implementation of IT systems for Cyber threats detection, monitoring and prevention (SAP Enterprise Treat Detection)
• Data storage and deletion process management (SAP Information life cycle management).
• SAP GRC Access controls implementation.
• SAP Field Masking and SAP test Data Scrambling (SAP TDMS) implementation.
• Custom code (CVA) Security Analysis.

OPERATIONAL GUIDELINES

• Definition of the “Internal Control System over Financial Reporting” compliant with Italian law 262/2005 or Sarbanes Oaxley Act.
• Definition and deployment of a multi-level framework (Entity, Process and IT level) according to the Group / Company / process / application dimensions.

RISK & CONTROL ASSESSMENT

• Process mapping (BPMN 2.0 standard), risk & control assessment of procedures significant for the Internal Control System over Financial Reporting purposes (e.g. Local GAAP and IFRS Closing, Solvency II, etc.)
• Design of operational models for monitoring the effective application of procedures.

SAP GOVERNANCE RISK & COMPLIANCE IMPLEMENTATION

• IT Implementation of systems and applications to manage governance and to support the assessment of risks and controls.
• IT Implementation of monitoring systems to ensure the effective application of controls
• Workflow management for the collection and storage of control evidence.
• IT implementation for CFO sign off management (confirmation letters digitization and claims management on procedures).

• Analysis of application and data that supply the accounting model.
• Review of accounting models (information structures, chart of accounts, supplying applications)
• Adaptation of processes with a view to fast closing.
• Analysis and evaluation of administrative processes, evaluation of workloads and review / rationalization of activities following introduction of new applications / revision of job descriptions.
• Manual accounting implementation and accounting procedures.

Business Workflow

Qintesi consultants have the skills to design and implement effective business monitoring and governance tools with SAP Business Workflow.

We have implemented workflows of all complexity to support the processes of:

• Management of personal data of various types (Accounts, Bank Accounts, Management Control Objects, Materials, Business Partners, etc …) through the governance of creation, completion and subsequent approval activities;;
• Management of procurement processes with approval of purchase orders and payment of invoices, in compliance with complex organizational models articulated by hierarchical and / or functional, exclusive or competing responsibilities;
• Management of the approval of payment flows also through the configuration of the SAP BCM (Bank Communication Management) component;

 
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SAP Master Data Governance (MDG)

Qintesi Team has gained experience in the design and implementation of Master Data Governance systems with the SAP MDG application component.

Through the implementation of this application component, Qintesi provides its customers with effective solutions for:

• Managing and monitoring all phases of the “life cycle” of the data (creation, approval, modification, blocking, deletion) with a guided and automated process by a “role-based” workflow with flexible business rules;
• Distributing and synchronizing personal data on one or more application systems ensuring data updating and code matching;
• Carrying out data-entry activities and approval steps on the move thanks to the integration with SAP FIORI;

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We provide solutions for the complete centralization of payment and collection arrangement flows, processed by insurance management systems (premiums, claims, etc.) and not (suppliers, human resources, etc.) in a single application environment, using the features of SAP Bank Communication Management. This guarantees an integrated management of liquidity and a digitalization of the authorization workflow of the provisions and automation of integration with the Banks, in compliance with the security protocols.

 
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We have developed a QI Template that allows us to provide our Customers with planning and implementation services for Strategic Planning, Budget Preparation, Forecasting and variance analysis with actual data, that meet the needs of:

• Management of an insurance data model that includes all the information dimensions relevant to the entire process;
• Data collection and processing of historical data according to flexible business rules;
• Structured monitoring of phases and responsibilities for the different steps of the process;
• Supply of a database for comparison with actual data.

 
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We provide our customers with solutions that meet the needs of Fast Group Closing and Consolidation according to different accounting principles and in compliance with specific regulatory requirements of the insurance sector.

We have developed a QI Template for the consolidation process in the insurance sector that allows us to deal with projects in insurance Groups of all sizes and complexities, and to implement effective solutions for managing, with time and cost savings, all the relevant phases of the consolidation process:

• Configuration of the organizational structures, the Group Accounts Plan and the relevant consolidation size (Legal Entity, Non-Life / Life Management, etc.);
• Management of the process of acquisition of the “reporting package” by the Group companies, with functionality of: data normalization, management of correction and / or integrations for the adjustment of the values to different accounting standards or different classification requirements;
• Monitor to control data acquisition or reading in “real time” and validation of data quality;
• Fully automatic management of consolidation operations, with the possibility of making additions and manual adjustments in the various steps;
• Preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements and related statements in compliance with the specific requirements of the insurance sector with Disclosure Management solutions;

 
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Qintesi has gained significant experience in the design and implementation of integrated Insurance Business Intelligence models and tools able to satisfy both the needs of multidimensional analysis on an extremely detailed database and the need to have “aggregated” views natively reconciled with the results exposed by administrative and financial reporting.

Qintesi Team can provide its Customers with Business Intelligence solutions for:

• Monitor KPIs for measuring company performance, business units, sales channels, etc. through Dashboards;
• Prepare analytical reporting on the main dimensions of analysis of the performance of the insurance business: premiums, claims, settlements, reinsurance, commissions, reserves, etc …;
• Analyze the claims management process with all the relative movements operations up to the preparation of the stamped registers;

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Qintesi Team provides customers with high quality and reliability solutions for performance analysis and for “cost and revenue allocation” with a level of detail that can go as far as a single contract. Thanks to:

• “Interdisciplinary” technical and functional expertise of our consultants;
• Knowledge of the functionality of the SAP Financial Services solution – PERformance management (SAP FS-PER);
• Ability to exploit the high performance of the SAP HANA “in memory” database;
• Experience in integrating the SAP FS-PER solution with the statistical algorithms of the “R” language.

Qintesi is the ideal partner to design and realize systems for the processing of large databases and high level of detail in order to implement solutions for:

• The profitability analysis of insurance products and any other dimension of analysis through cost and revenue allocation cycles according to models of all complexity;
• The preparation of financial statements referring to specific analysis dimensions;
• The creation of ALM models;
• The calculation of some indicators required by Pillar 1 of the Solvency II Directive, e.g. the calculation of the SCR and the MCR.

The skills of Qintesi consultants in the use of SAP FS-PER allow us to offer our Customers:

• Fast reading, writing and processing of huge volumes of data thanks to the high performance of the SAP HANA “in memory” database;
• Integration with SAP data sources (SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Business Planning & Consolidation, SAP Insurance Analyzer, SAP Financial Products SubLegal);
• Possibility for the user to process data through allocations, application of statistical functions, aggregations, simulations with “what-if” scenarios with an “on the fly” comparison of results using Analytics tools.

 
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PILLAR 3

Qintesi Team provides its Customers with an “end-to-end” solution for the processing of data expected by Pillar 3 of the Solvency II Directive in an automated, consistent and auditable way, ensuring an adequate “Data Quality”.

We have gained significant experience in implementing the SAP Rapid Deployment. Solution for Solvency II based on application components:

• SAP Financial Information Management for Integration and Data Quality Management;
• SAP Financial Consolidation for the management of the “data model” and the “consolidation” process;
• SAP Disclosure Management which, thanks to the SAP Disclosure Management add-on XBRL reporting, supports the preparation of QRT’s in XBRL format according to the taxonomy envisaged, guaranteeing upgrading over time.

For a number of our customers we have developed a QI Template that allows them to use SAP Business Planning & Consolidation as an application solution for managing the data model and the process of “consolidation” of data in order to provide a native integration with the planning and data consolidation processes.

Our team is constantly updated with the new features introduced by the authority and provides a proactive and timely service for upgrading the solution.

PILLAR 2

Qintesi Team provides its Customers with a solution based on the components SAP. Business Planning & Consolidation and SAP Disclosure Management to meet the needs of execution of the FLAOR “Forward Looking Assessment on Own Risk” based on the ORSA principles “Own Risk and Solvency Assessment “.

The solution allows Customers to manage the operations necessary to determine the variables relevant to the FLAOR in a structured, traceable and transparent manner.

PILLAR 1

Qintesi Team provides its Customers with a solution based on SAP Financial Services – PERformance management components (SAP FS-PER) able to satisfy, in a structured and auditable way, the needs of calculation of some indicators required by Pillar 1 of the Directive Solvency II, e.g. the calculation of the Solvency Capital Requirement and the Minimum Capital Requirement.

 
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By 2021, insurance companies will have to comply with the new international standard IFRS 17 for the assessment and presentation of insurance contracts in the balance sheet; Qintesi Team is ready to support its Customers in the design and implementation of the latest SAP solutions for the management and processing of data according to the new accounting principle.

We have invested in training, developed prototypes and Demo systems and gained experience and expertise in design contexts at some of our Customers. We are able to provide services for implementing SAP Insurance Analyzer and SAP Financial Products Subledger solutions to meet the needs of:

• Introduction of a solid “Finance and Risk Data Platform” SAP suite and integration with the existing SAP and non-SAP architecture and applications in the “technical”, financial and actuarial fields (SAP FPS is integrated with Prophet through the use of a ” “common” model point);
• Implementation of a complete and detailed database with the use of predefined and updated “Business Content”;
• Adoption of a multi-dimensional, multi-ledger, multi-currency “subledger” to evaluate insurance contracts according to different accounting principles by a “delta approach”;
• Fast Closing and native integration with the General Ledger with aggregated data but with “drill-back” functionality for complete auditability;
• Supply of a consistent reporting system and reconciled with the size of the financial statements to provide Management with an integrated vision (“single source of truth).

Qintesi has the skills to integrate SAP Insurance Analyzer and SAP Financial Products Sub-trust solutions with the SAP Financial Services – PERformance Management solution in order to provide its Customers with application scenarios for simulation and “what-if” analysis without duplication of data.

 
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Qintesi has gained significant experience in the design and implementation of solutions that provide our Customers with tools to automate and monitor the process for preparing the Balance Sheet, the Explanatory Notes and the attachments requested by the Insurance Supervision Institute (IVASS).

The expertise in implementing the SAP Business Planning & Consolidation and SAP Disclosure Management solutions have enabled Qintesi to develop a QI Template that meets the needs of customers in managing the activities of:

• Assignment of responsibilities for the compilation of the chapters of the Balance Sheet, the Explanatory Notes and the individual statements;
• Management of a normalized database, natively integrated and reconciled with the general ledger already structured with “macro-entries” provided by the QI Template to fill the prospectuses;
• Acquisition of “non-accounting” data needed to complete the statements from other SAP and non-SAP systems;
• Automatic, synchronized and consistent “on demand” population of the statements, with immediate evidence of changes compared to the previous “version”;
• Completion of the Balance Sheet by manual entries of text elements;
• Management of the workflow that monitors the progress of activities;
• Archiving of the Balance Sheet, the Explanatory Notes and the individual statements at the end of the process;
• Automatic provision of the data flows that are necessary to fill the database of the Supervisory Authority;

Qintesi is able to provide its Customers with a continuous service for the adaption the prospectuses in order to incorporate any need for integration and modification of the prospectuses.

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Qintesi Team has completed several projects for the implementation, customization and maintenance of the SAP FS-CD application component (Financial Services Collection & Disbursement) to support the technical accounting and technical-financial reconciliation processes of the collections of premiums and payments claims.

The deep expertise, consolidated in numerous experiences at the main insurance companies, have enabled us to refine our solutions and to design and implement “tailor-made” solutions highly appreciated by our customers, since they are able to solve specific needs.

The Qintesi Insurance Template integrates the standard functionalities of the SAP FS-CD application component (Financial Services Collection & Disbursement) with the Qintesi “best practices”, and it represents an effective reference model that allows to considerably limit the time and effort for the realization of application solutions for the management of:

• Automatic accounting of detailed items in the areas of premiums, claims, commissions, liquidations, reinsurance, reserves and the provision of general ledger balances with the possibility of “drill-back”;
• Reconciliation of premiums issued and collected with a solution (Qintesi Cockpit) for the management of directional business receipts;
• Monitoring of commissions and management of Agency remittances;
• Claims management process (including the CARD handling of car accidents);
• Activities for the management of the Current Account Company and Broker for Reinsurance and Co-insurance and for reconciliation with account balance;
• Periodic declaration of insurance taxes (tax office, National Health Service, RCA payment to the Provinces, etc …);
• Press releases of companies and brokers, life settlements, etc …;
• Production of insurance records (premiums written, premiums collected, registered claims, etc.).

We have the functional and technical skills to provide our Customers with solutions based on SOA architectures to distribute the functionality of SAP FS-CD on the channel with “mobile” technologies in order to achieve complete integration of processes and information.

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Our consultants have gained significant experience in the design and implementation of general and special ledger models for the most important Italian insurance companies using, SAP solutions.

The QI Insurance Template provides our Customers with a solid reference model of proven reliability to support the typical processes of an insurance company through:

• An Account Plan template in the IVASS version and in the IFRS version and a management model of “Parallel Plans”;
• A multidimensional data model that enables the management of all the dimensions necessary for the subsequent preparation of the Financial Statements, the Explanatory Notes and the Supervisory Attachments (e.g. management, class, type of work, type of portfolio, ISIN Code, etc. …);
• An accounting model “multi-company” and “multi GAAP” able to manage the stable organizations abroad belonging to the company;
• An integration model for the invoices flow of technical professionals (trustees, counterparty lawyers, etc.) that safeguards reconciliation with claims accounting;
• An effective solution for the management of sections related to the different types of “Business partners”: Reinsurance Companies, Co-insurance Companies, Agencies, etc …
• Specific features for the management of multi-currency accounting;
• Specific functions for the management of overheads and their allocation to the financial statements branches and to the activities expected by IVASS with a multi-step allocation cycle model;
• A structured solution for Fast Closing on interim closures;
• Multi-dimensional Financial Reporting with predefined balance sheet structures on IVASS and IFRS schemes.

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Qintesi Team in partnership with Innext, premier partner of Google, is able to provide its customers with a “turnkey” service to transfer the SAP platform from “on premise” to “cloud”, combining the configuration of the infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform with the “lift & shift” activities of SAP applications.

We were the first to migrate an entire SAP Lanscape on Google Cloud Platform for an important customer. We have the experience, the expertise and the “know how” of several projects already “live” to better support customers in projects of innovation of the own technological platform.

Thanks to the innovation LAB, Qintesi invests in the knowledge and development of solutions that integrate the “in memory” technology of SAP HANA with artificial intelligence, Big Data management, open connectivity software of the Google Cloud Platform, in order to provide its Customers with the ability to process large volumes of data, versatility, flexibility and continuous innovation at sustainable costs over time.

 
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Our Customers ask us to satisfy their needs to have new, simple and convenient technological platforms. Our team has the skills to provide them with the necessary support to design and implement the “on premise” or “cloud” evolution Road Map towards the future, with the security that only a qualified partner can guarantee, through services of:

INSTALLATION

• Analysis and Top Design of the technological infrastructure;
• Design and Set-Up of SAP system landscape;
• Evolution of the platform with new application and technological solutions;

UPGRADE

• Upgrade of SAP application components with “best practices” methodologies for fast, simple and secure projects;
• Monitoring of the compatibility of SAP applications with other HW-SW components;

S/4 HANA CONVERSION

• Readiness Check;
• Performing the conversion procedure in total security (Software Update Manager + Database Migration);
• “Post-processing” activities;

LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION

• Optimization and “consolidation” of the SAP Landscape;
• Re-platforming with Operating System and Database migrations;
• Adoption of the HANA Database;
• Geo-spatial” transfers of the SAP Landscape;

 
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Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)

We have considerable experience in the design and implementation of architecture oriented to services of all complexity; We provide our Customers with solutions that meet all requirements in compliance with best practices regarding the management of authorizations and security protocols.

We configure and develop web services for:

SAP Process Orchestration (SAP PO)

SAP Process Orchestration is the stable, secure and flexible SAP middleware; expertly configured by SAP certified Qintesi consultants, it provides a solution for the management of integration flows between two or more SAP and non-SAP systems.

Our team has the experience and the skills to ensure customers design and implementation of scenarios for integration of all complexity.

SAP Application Interface Framework (SAP AIF)

We have gained significant experience in the implementation of SAP Application Interface Management, the latest SAP solution for managing interfaces in total security.

Qintesi Team is able to provide customers with a complete solution for:

• Monitoring of flows according to the ownership assigned to the single flow through a configurable monitor;
• Error handling through a workflow that allows assigning tasks to “business” users or IT support organizational units;

 
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SAP Cloud Platform

Our specialists have the necessary skills to support customers in the adoption of the SAP Cloud Platform and in the implementation of solutions that fully exploit the platform’s technological innovation contents:

• Digital Transformation Solutions through the development of Cloud applications based on SAP UI5 technology organized in “Portal Sites”;
• Intelligent Enterprise solutions through the integration and processing of information from “on premise” or “cloud” systems, and the analysis of the same by “cloud analytics” solutions;
• Customized solutions that “extend” the functionality of the “core” systems in a flexible and efficient way;

SAP Italy has recognized our expertise in the use of SAP Cloud Platform. This has led to a collaboration between SAP Italy and Qintesi in the development of solutions such as CDP (Customer Development Products) to meet the needs of Italian localization in the field of tax legislation.

GOOGLE Cloud Platform and Google Suite

An innovation team in Qintesi is dedicated to designing and creating prototypes and solutions integrating SAP application components with Google technological solutions:

• G-Suite and tools for individual productivity and collaboration;
• Big Query and other Big Data management solutions;
• Artificial intelligence and robotics solutions;

 
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Qintesi User Experience Team has the skills to provide our customers with interactive “mobile” applications to make the user experience simple and intuitive, through development services in compliance with modern security standards.

Web application configuration and development

Thanks to the experience and the continuous development of skills in innovation, we are able to design and develop:

• “Responsive” applications developed on SAP UI5 technology of any type and complexity (“web applications”, “hybrid applications” and “native applications”);
• Dashboard and Cockpit based on SAP UI5 technology to monitor business processes;
• Content and functionality on SAP Enterprise Portal: “GAF” and “OIF” web applications, integration with “OCI” technology, development of webdynpro

SAP FIORI configuration and personalization

We have the skills to configure and customize SAP Fiori applications through the knowledge, and the ability to operate with “ABAP programming model for SAP FIORI”, with “Core Data Services” based on the “Odata” protocol.

We develop changes to the SAP Fiori applications for our customers, developing customized solutions with the “SAP web IDE” platform and the “Java” development in the “Eclipse” environment.

Re-design business with Digital Transformation solutions

We have completely redesigned entire business processes for some of our Customers, realizing real-time experiences of Digital Transformation and “dematerialization” of activities, through the development of “mobile” applications on SAP UI5 platform which are able to provide:

• Dashboard and KPI for process control;
• Pre-defined workflows of activities with “triggers” and notifications to business users;
• Ability to perform complex transactions on the move with information from different application systems;
• Elimination of paper documents by filling out the web form;
• Integration with a camera (e.g. for reading barcodes);
• Geolocation and automatic timing detection;

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ABAP – ABAP Object Oriented

Qintesi Developer Team has gained considerable experience in developing solutions in the SAP projects implemented, and is able to offer our customers development, tuning and performance optimization services related to:

• Enhancement and customized solutions of any complexity on all SAP application components on the Netweaver platform;
• “ABAP-based” Cockpit and Monitor for the support and monitoring of specific business processes;
• Features available on WEB through Webdynpro (GAF and OIF interfaces on SAP Enterprise Portal, “OCI technology”

HANA – ABAP 4 HANA

The numerous projects implemented on the SAP HANA Platform allow Qintesi to provide its customers with specialized services for the analysis, revision, adaptation and optimization of the “custom code” to the HANA platform according to the SAP best practices.

In particular we are able to provide our customers with services of:

• Conversion and migration of the “custom code” as part of the S / 4 HANA conversion project;
• Develop Managed Database Procedures with access to SAP HANA through “Native SQL” and “ADBC”;

OTHER LANGUAGES

Qintesi has a team of Java developers specializing in the creation of software solutions to integrate SAP application software with third-party software including Document Management systems.

The Unit Development has EXPERTISE in the development of the following languages / protocols:

• Java – Java script
• Java Spring;
• Node.js;
• Angular;
• Xml (eXtensible Markup Language);
• Native Sql;

We have experience in Workflow development on SSIS (Sql Server Integration Services) platforms for Data Warehouse and Data Management tools on Microsoft Sql Server Database.

 
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Qintesi Unit Performance Management has the skills to support Customers in the design and implementation of Performance Management systems of any complexity, which are even able to elaborate a database in extreme detail.

Qintesi has developed an “Allocation Engine” on the SAP BPC application component, which supports the cost allocation process of final measuring objects (targets)???. This tool is able to support Customers in the adoption of complex control models with the functionality of:

• Data collection from different “data source”;
• Management of allocation cycles sequences in real or simulated mode;
• Acquisition of drivers through a loading tool;
• Multidimensional reporting;

By configuring the SAP FS – PER Performance Management solution on SAP HANA technology, we are able to provide our customers with a tool that can:

• Collect data from different “data sources” managing the maximum level of detail available (single product, single contract, single point of sale, etc …) thanks to the SAP HANA technology;
• Harmonize and aggregate data according to specific needs in order to fill Analytics and Reporting systems;
• Develop allocation processes, with multidimensional information in order to have cost and profitability information on detailed measurement objects;
• Support simulations, what-if analysis and complex statistical and actuarial elaborations.

We have solid skills in the design of planning models and in the implementation of effective solutions to meet the needs of our customers in the management of Strategic Planning process and Budget and Forecast preparation.

We provide our Customers with solutions for the preparation of forecast financial statements and balance sheets capable of processing what-if scenarios and allocation processes of each complexity, using an updated database in “real time” thanks to the features available with recent versions of SAP BPC integrated natively with HANA and S / 4 HANA.

We have implemented solutions for medium and long-term financial planning and for preparation of forecast cash flows and short-term forecast liquidity analyzes, through the “real time” integration of information relating to customer and supplier schedules and to other planned collection / payment transactions.

We are able to provide our customers with solutions and planning tools to support the procurement process by elaborating in “real time” the information available on the transactional systems S/4 HANA.

Application solutions

• SAP BPC 7.5 (Microsoft / Netweaver)
• SAP BPC 10 (Microsoft / Netweaver)
• SAP BPC 11
• SAP BPC Embedded

 
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We provide our customers with solutions that meet the needs of Fast Group Closing and Consolidation, according to different accounting principles and in compliance with industry-specific regulatory requirements.

We are able to deal with projects in Groups of all sizes and complexities, and to implement effective solutions for managing all the relevant phases of the consolidation process:

• Configuration of the organizational structures, the Group Accounts Plan and the relevant consolidation dimensions;
• Monitor to control data acquisition or reading in “real time” and validation of data quality;
• Fully automatic management of consolidation operations, with the possibility of making additions and manual adjustments in the various steps;
• Preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements and related statements with Disclosure Management solutions;

Qintesi has developed “Fast Loading” approach and Tools to optimize data acquisition through an “on line” reading directly from SAP and non-SAP systems that allows:

• Transcodificare in “real time” i dati e normalizzarli rispetto al modello dati di Consolidamento;
• Calculate any differences in “Opening Balance” with respect to the values present in the transactional systems;
• Differentiate acquisition rules according to specific regulatory requirements;
• Validate the acquired data and guarantee the consistency of the flows;

Application solutions

• SAP SEM BCS
• SAP BPC 7.5 (Microsoft / Netweaver)
• SAP BPC 10 (Microsoft / Netweaver)
• SAP BPC 11
• SAP BPC Embedded
• SAP Real Time Consolidation

 
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Scope and skills

Companies that need to produce regulatory disclosures often face with the following issues:

• Sources of data and output software are different and not efficiently integrated.
• Versioning is inefficient and this leads to risk of losing or overwrite data when different users work.
• Absence of a structured compliance and audit view.
• Absence of structured workflow processes.
• Inefficient output generation, e.g. tables in Management Report are images and must be inserted manually every time data changes
• Qintesi assists its customers to solve these issues implementing SAP Disclosure Management solution with a consolidated methodology, developed in several projects in major Italian companies.

Our skills

• Preparation of a “reporting package” in groups of companies:
  this package aims to produce, through the use of SAP Disclosure Management, the periodic reports and the consolidated financial statements required by the supervisory authority.
• Analysis and implementation of reporting models, designed to produce the main disclosure outputs required by the insurance legislation, such as the Audit Report, the IVASS files, the Supervision Forms, the SFCR-RSR and the XBRL files for the Solvency II laws.
• Design and implementation of different types of internal reports for insurance companies (Risk Dashboard, Related Parties), utilities and service companies.
• Support for the business users in the closing periods and for the production of the aforementioned reports.

From a technical perspective, a Disclosure Management project consists of several components:

• SAP FIM: a specialized ETL for the EPM applications, used to collect and aggregate data. It provides connectivity to SAP (ECC, BW) and non-SAP applications (Oracle). In more simple scenarios, also SAP transactions may be used instead of FIM.
• AP BPC: suitable for simplifying the report generation, where data is usually stored in a BPC model; without SAP BPC, SAP queries are used.
• DM web: this is the main program in which files (report templates) are stored and where users manage their activities.
• MS Office (Word with Excel files linked): that is the environment in which data is retrieved from BPC or directly from the ERP.
• DM XBRL add-in: is an additional component that allows the creation of XBRL instances, validation of Data and excel previews.

Technology

• SAP Disclosure Management

 
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Scope and skills

To be competitive in an ever-changing market, companies must equip themselves to take advantage of a large volume of information characterized by an exponential growth, performing real-time analysis, identifying risk and opportunities, and anticipating future outcomes. Traditional business intelligence (BI) tools are no longer sufficient to handle these tasks: this is why the integration of Predictive Analysis tools into Business Intelligence systems becomes necessary.

Predictive analytics helps companies in extracting valuable information from the business data to develop predictive models that can improve business performance and decision-making process, through an effective delivery of products and services.

Thanks to a dedicated team with strong mathematical and statistical background, Qintesi supports its Customers in this process of BI evolution, by offering predictive analysis solution based on SAP software.

Our skills

• design and implementation of predictive models, through the use of statistical techniques, and dedicated algorithms.
• Development of Machine Learning and Data Mining solutions to speed up customer’s business.
• Integration of predictive models within:
  • Big Data scenarios
  • Data warehouse systems
  • BI workflows or any others business application
• Support in choosing the predictive models that best suit the customer’s needs
• Development of real-time solutions for predictive analysis, both on premise and on cloud.
• Support customer on all the predictive lifecycle, from model creation to validation and deployment, without sacrificing speed, power, or scalability.
• Leverage of Big Data to gain predictive insights, discover hidden patterns, and build effective business strategies.

Technology

• SAP Predictive Analytics
• SAP Analytics Cloud – Predictive
• SAP HANA as a Predictive Analytics Platform

 
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Scope and skills

Data discovery and self-service BI tools have experienced a big growth over the past years, due to the Business users’ need of more autonomy and agility when it comes to integrating, analyzing and visualizing data. With largely decentralized content creation, connecting and governing the efforts of business users is becoming increasingly challenging: the required agility must not take place at the expense of quality for critical use cases or efficiency. On the other hand, traditional Business Intelligence, strong in data governance, grants the needed trust in data and efficiency in decision-making. So, either traditional Business Intelligence and data discovery tools must coexist in a complete Business Intelligence system. One of the aims in Qintesi is to support our customers in finding the right weight of each tool, on the basis of the real use cases.

Our skills

Design and implementation of operational, management and strategic reporting models, focused on supporting decision-making and the optimization of business performance:

• Operational reporting embedded in the existing workflows using physical or virtual data models.
• Classic standard applications with “pixel-perfect” reporting.
• Analysis and data discovery applications to allow the business users to freely browse their data.
• Dashboard and mobile applications for the top management, aimed at monitoring the main KPI’s with guided analysis paths
• Ability to combine cloud and on-premise applications.
• Support for the IT users in the application performance tuning.

Technology

BI Platform:

• SAP Business Objects BI Platform
• SAP Analtics HUB

Classic analysis & reporting:

• SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence
• SAP Crystal Reports

Dashboards:

• SAP Lumira – designer edition

Dashboards and data discovery:

• SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Digital Boardroom

Office integration:

• SAP Analysis Office

 
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Scope and skills

Despite new data sources, trends and technologies challenge the usefulness of data warehouses, they establish a “single version of the truth”, providing a single, comprehensive source of current and historical business information.

The classic data warehouse architecture is too inflexible and can no longer face with the requirements of new business intelligence, which requires advanced analytics of operational data, even in real time.

The data warehouse must evolve into a lightweight and cheapest architecture to permit IT to respond more rapidly and more effectively to the users’ needs.

Following the specific use cases, in our projects we combine logical and physical data models, choosing between an application driven approach (using e.g. SAP BW/4HANA) or an SQL driven approach (using the native features of SAP HANA Platform), harmonizing historical and real-time data.

Our expertise

• Data Warehousing:
1. design and implementation of ETL processes: integration of diversified data sources, data quality and data profiling management
2. design and implementation of physical and virtual multidimensional data models, in order to allow querying of business data using SAP or non-SAP reporting tools.

• Big Data Warehousing:
1. design and implementation of high-performance databases for managing large volumes of data, coming from structured and unstructured sources;
2. design of hybrid data warehouses with data lake integration.

• Definition of integrated systems for the harmonization of data collected from sensors and technological equipment (IoT)

 
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We design and realize specific solutions of Fast Closing for our Customers, using the features of SAP Financial Closing Cockpit:

• Management and monitoring of the closing calendar and the responsibilities of the individual tasks;
• Monitoring of progress of closing steps;
• Automation of periodic operations;

We create solutions that can effectively automate and govern the process of preparing the financial statements and mandatory attachments required by law and by supervisory authorities, with the implementation of SAP Disclosure Management.

 
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The consultants operating in our service units operate according to established methodologies, with various service management tools already used by Customers or supplied by Qintesi, and have the necessary technical and functional expertise to provide comprehensive and high-quality services to customers in compliance with shared SLA:

• Ordinary maintenance and user support in solving problems;
• Corrective maintenance;
• Regulatory adjustment;
• Evolutionary maintenance;

 
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In particular, the partnership with Innext (premier partner of Google Cloud Platform) allows our Landscape Management facilities to provide an even more complete service when Cloud infrastructure chosen by the Customer is Google Cloud Platform.

Our team provides customers with a steady and reliable management of all the activities necessary to keep the SAP applications efficient over time:

• Continuous monitoring;
• Infrastructure administration;
• Prevention and resolution of anomalies;

Our proposal consists of two levels of service whose contents are expressed in a clear and transparent way in order to meet all customer needs:

• Gold service level;
• Platinum service level;

 
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Our consultants provide customers with all the services necessary to evaluate and implement HANA database adoption projects:

• Sizing and installation of the SAP HANA database;
• Data migration;
• Adjustment of the ABAP code related to custom transactions
• Tuning and optimization of performances;

We have expertise and experience in design and implement quickly and with certain costs upgrades of the release, or increase of the Support Package and/or Enhancement Package levels, of the SAP application components to support transactional processes or SAP solutions in Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management.

 
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• Migration to a Cloud infrastructure concurrently with the conversion project to S/4 HANA or HANA adoption;
• Lift & Shift” initiative of the simple and fast SAP workload towards a Cloud platform;

Our SAP Certified Technical Experts Team has expertise and experience in implementing transition projects of the SAP platform to the Cloud, with effectiveness and security for customers.

SAP and Google Cloud Platform announced a strategic partnership in 2017! Qintesi consultants, in collaboration with the partner Innext (Google Cloud Platform Premier Partner), are able to provide customers with the value of this partnership through a complete transition service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which includes:

• Design and dimensioning of the architectural solution on GCP;
• Activation of the service and configuration of the GCP platform;
• Migration of SAP applications;
• Continuous monitoring and management of the Cloud infrastructure on GCP;

 
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We have the expertise to provide customers with qualified advice on the best approach to follow in order to meet requirements such as:

• Management of extraordinary transactions (mergers, acquisitions, disposals, etc.);
• Harmonization of business models and data model;
• Implementation of an SAP Central Finance scenario;

We provide customers with a complete design and implementation of the Landscape Target, and manage all the aspects relevant to an implementation project of an SAP Central Finance scenario:

•   Implementation of the application architecture aimed at “replication” and “normalization” of transactions;
• Configuration of “central” functions and processes;

 
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The Qintesi Team has the experience and skills to implement the SAP RE-FX solution that allow customers to optimize the management of properties and leases both in Italy and abroad.

We have gained significant experience in the configuration of the specific SAP RE-FX solution in compliance with the provisions of accounting standard IFRS 16.

Our professionals are able to design and implement effective solutions for our customers to centralize and automate the processes of:

• Management of assets, related contracts, including leasing and rental contracts (assets and liabilities) and related accounting entries;;
• Planning and control of the use of existing real estate assets and of asset development, through new real estate initiatives;
• Management of the “warehouse” properties;
• Management of the active invoicing of the rents, survey of the condominium expenses and the relative distribution;
• Planning and control of maintenance interventions, with a complete integration with the purchase processes of goods and services;
• Compliance with Italian (IRE, IMU, TASI, TARSU, etc …) and international regulatory and tax requirements;

 
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Our team of professionals has gained significant experience in creating solutions that provide customers with the ability to automate maintenance processes.

With the SAP Plant Maintenance solution, configured by Qintesi professionals, maintenance activities are more efficient thanks to the integrated management of the intervention planning and to the scheduling of material and workforce procurement.

The Qintesi Innovation Teams have realized Digital Transformation projects for our Customers that consist of a complete digitalization of the maintenance process with Apps available both on “mobile” devices, developed with SAP UI5 technology, and on the SAP Cloud Platform. These Apps allow to :

• Manage the allocation of maintenance activities;
• Automate team training;
• Digitize the compilation of the forms related to the specific interventions;
• Finalize the activities;
• Manage the handling of consumables and spare parts efficiently and “on the move”.

 
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Our professionals have the functional and technical skills to design and implement solutions that support purchasing processes in an efficient, effective and transparent way.

We are able to support our Customers in the implementation of approval workflows on “mobile” devices, in order to completely digitize the approval and release process of the various steps of the purchase process.

We have gained significant experience in the implementation of goods movement processes and inventory and warehouse management.

Thanks to the implementation of the SAP Material Ledger solution, we are able to provide our Customers with solutions for the evaluation of stocks and inventories, according to different accounting principles that ensure constant reconciliation between physical stocks and balance sheet values.

 
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Qintesi consultants are able to support Customers in the design and implementation of SAP Finance solutions to cover the processes of:

• General ledger, with enrichment of the data model of the information attributes relevant to ensure any compliance needs with respect to regulatory requirements;
• Parallel accounting management according to different accounting principles (Local GAAP, IFRS, US GAAP, etc.);
• Special ledger (Business Partner Customers and Suppliers), automated management and reconciliation of open items, and schedule management;
• Credit management, business partner ratings by “segment” of membership, management of reminders, repayment plans and any conflicts related to unpaid debts;
• Automated management of billing and electronic invoicing processes;
• Asset Accounting.

Our experts support customers in the design and implementation of cost accounting models and in the preparation of management economic accounts appropriate for the specific organizational context and business model.

We are able to implement cost allocation and activity-based costing models to provide customers with accurate and timely information.

We are experts in the implementation of project management and investment solutions that provide customers with accurate and reliable information regarding costs incurred, capitalized costs and capital absorbed.

We have the experience and expertise to provide customers with innovative and performing solutions for the analysis of profitability, according to different business dimensions such as the product, the geographical area, the organizational unit, the distribution channel, etc … with the implementation of SAP FS PER (Performance Management) solution.

Our team of experts supports our customers in the automation of operational treasury operations and bank accounting, and in the monitoring of current and future liquidity and cash flow using the SAP Simple Cash Management features.

We provide solutions for the complete digitalization of the authorization workflow of the provisions and of the automation of integration with the Banks, in compliance with security protocols using the features of SAP Bank Communication Management.

We have the experience to design and create models for centralizing treasury operations, managing payments “on behalf and for account”, “Intercompany” collections and payments, and managing Group liquidity using the SAP In House Cash features.

We provide our customers with solutions for the management of the main forms of financing, for the collection and use of liquidity for the management of hedging transactions against exchange and interest rate risk, through the implementation of SAP .
Treasury and Risk Management.

MANAGEMENT OF BANKING RELATIONSHIPS

Thanks to the skills and specific relationships matured over the years, Qintesi proposes itself as a partner of the company and of the entrepreneur in finding financial resources in the short, medium and long term debt and managing cash flows.

In particular, the activities that Qintesi can support are:

• Preparation of Business Plans for M / L loans;
• Review of cash plans and cash flow management;
• Management of banking relationships;
• Agreements with Confidi;
• Bank agreements;
• Analysis and improvement of the rating;
• Search for sources of financing alternative to the banking channel for the development of new projects.

MANAGEMENT OF WORKING CAPITAL

Qintesi professionals provide the entrepreneur with the necessary advice to improve working capital management.

In particular, the activities that Qintesi can support are:

• Credit management, aging and related procedures;
• Planning and management of commercial debt;
• Debt restructuring plans;
• Efficient management of inventories and stocks, and related indicators;
• Planning and monitoring of the main circulating capital indicators: DSO, DSI, DAP;
• Optimization of working capital financing instruments.

 
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MANAGEMENT CONTROL

Qintesi team of experts in budgeting and management control supports the company to manage investment and resource allocation decisions with consulting services such as:

• Implementation of advanced management control systems (Activity base costing, Balance Scorecard), with related procedures;
• Annual, quarterly and monthly budgeting, with variance analysis;
• Forecast and rolling forecast;
• Directional reports and KPI (Key Performance Indicator) dashboards;
• Choices of “make or buy”;
• Design of the controlling model within the corporate ERP system.

STRUCTURED FINANCE

The Qintesi intervention methodology provides a real support to the entrepreneur and the company, to guide the strategic development plan and the search for industrial or financial partners, up to a possible listing on the stock exchange.

Qintesi supports companies in the management of extraordinary finance transactions or those that require recourse to Venture Capital or Private Equity:

• Dimensioning of capital needs;
• Strategic and / or Industrial Plan Preparation;
• Support for the mini Bond issue;
• Identification and coaching in the choice of private equity funds;
• Assistance in negotiations with potential lenders;
• Support in M&A operations;
• Support for companies entering the Elite program of Borsa Italiana (Italy’s stock exchange)

 
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COMPANY RENOVATIONS

Through the experience of its professionals, Qintesi proposes itself as an operational reference point for companies which have to manage phases or periods of corporate crises.

Qintesi has consolidated expertise in the management of business crises, in order to manage the crisis better and a path to relaunch the business.

Qintesi is capable of performing the following activities:

• Interventions on working capital;
• Cost management;
• Temporary management activities;
• Technical aspects of transmission;
• Review of business processes;
• Search for dedicated funding sources;
• Support in existing procedures for companies in a state of crisis;
• Plans related to L.F .: Art.67 (3) (d) L.F. Art.182 L.F.;
• Preparation of documentation for social safety nets;
• Outplacement.

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CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Qintesi Consultants are capable of supporting the entrepreneur and the management to face the management of the transition.

Qintesi supports the company in this complex path, in particular by managing:

• The theme of future leadership;
• Approach to change and innovation;
• Updated managerial tools and techniques
• Technical aspects of transmission;
• Organizational alignment;
• Definition of the skills required for the roles;
• Matrix Roles-Skills Gap Analysis;
• Training design;
• Implementation of the communication plan;
• Design and application of corporate performance assessment tools.

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The Qintesi Innovation Labs are places where Qintesi consultants, in collaboration with customers, deepen and build prototypes using the most innovative SAP solutions, technologies and platforms:

• SAP HANA;
• SAP UI5;
• SAP Cloud Platform
• SAP Leonardo

The Qintesi Innovation Labs are the ideal context in which Qintesi experiments and develops high value-added skills and solutions for its Customers, by wisely combining SAP solutions and Google technologies in Collaboration, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.

Our Innovation Teams are able to realize advanced and original solutions for our customers, aimed at:

• Accelerate the digital transformation process by implementation of SAP Fiori and development of mobile applications;
• Extend the capabilities of SAP S / 4 HANA Digital Core by developing innovative solutions on the SAP Cloud Platform;
• enable intelligent enterprise by integrating Google big data and machine learning solutions with SAP applications;

 
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The profound expertise of our solution architects on the most innovative solutions and technologies are certified by SAP and provide customers the professionalism necessary to support them:

• In defining a Roadmap of innovation and digital transformation towards application and technological scenarios designed to meet specific business needs;
• Exploring the most innovative SAP solutions and their added value through specific demonstration sessions made possible by the constantly updated Qintesi demo systems;

Some examples:

• Analysis and definition of the approach to conversion to S/4 HANA and the introduction of SAP Fiori;
• Evaluation of the adoption strategy of BW/4 HANA and/or Cloud Analytics solutions;
• Design of a Central Finance scenario;
• Definition of the security strategy of SAP systems with a GDPR perspective.

 
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The expert consultants in Qintesi can support Customers in an assessment of their SAP platform with the aim of:

• Perform a “readiness check” of the application components;
• Evaluate the impact on application functionality already implemented and on custom developments;
• Outline the best approach to conversion (Greenfield, Brownfield, Landscape Transformation) considering the peculiarities and objectives of the Customer;
• Evaluate the possible options to choose the target platform: “on premise” or “cloud”;

Our teams have gained significant experience working in major S/4 HANA Conversion projects and have enabled Customers to the benefits and value of functional evolution and technological innovation.

Our experts provide customers with a complete and effective conversion project that includes:

• Set-up of the “on premise” or “Cloud” infrastructure;
• Technical conversion from ECC6 to S/4 HANA;
• Implementation and configuration of new features;
• Activation of the new SAP FIORI user interface;

 
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With its numerous SAP consultants, with broad and profound expertise in various functional and technical fields, Qintesi is able to support its Customers in the analysis of functional requirements and in the implementation of SAP solutions through the adaptation and/or implementation of new application and technological scenarios in projects of all types and sizes:

• Implementation of ERP S/4 HANA and SAP digital core in the areas of Finance, Controlling, Procurement, Cash Management and Real Estate;
• Implementation of “on premise” or cloud infrastructures on SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud platforms or on Google Cloud Platform;
• Implementation of SAP solutions in the areas of Group Consolidation, Planning, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Cloud Analytics and Big Data, also in synergy with Google solutions;
• Implementation of SAP solutions in the areas of Governance Risk & Compliance, Access and Process Control, Data protection, according to the General Data Protection Regulations no. 2016/679;
• Configuration of Industry-specific solutions for regulatory purposes and / or for “vertical” processes;

 
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