Students of the inaugural Masters of CFO Leadership course at Singapore Management University gain insights on how SAP HANA and Business Analytics can help CFOs play their new role as strategic partners to the business. Thomas Zipperle, SAP CFO Southeast, shared the transformation experience of SAP’s Finance function in the past decade in embracing shared services and redirecting resources from low-value manual activities to high-value planning and analysis. The students are CFOs and Finance Directors of industries ranging from financial services, high-tech, lifestyles to real estate.