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Asking your ERP a question in plain language

“Margin by business line, Q1 vs last year” — answered in seconds, without a ticket to IT.

Every ad-hoc financial report means a request to IT and a wait. The design is a chat interface that turns a plain-language question into a validated SAP query, pulls the data and presents it — putting the CFO's team back in control of their own numbers.

Finance leaders can describe exactly what they want to see, but getting it means filing a request, waiting in a queue, and clarifying over email. Decisions slow to the cadence of the reporting backlog, and curiosity dies because every question has a cost.

  • A natural-language interface for finance questions.
  • A translation layer that turns questions into validated, read-only SAP queries.
  • Guardrails that constrain scope and confirm ambiguous requests.
  • Presentation of results as clean tables and figures with the query shown for trust.
  • A user types a question in plain language.
  • The system proposes the interpretation and the query it will run.
  • It executes read-only against SAP and returns the data.
  • The answer is presented with the underlying query visible and exportable.

Routine reporting questions are answered in seconds by the people who have them, and the IT backlog of ad-hoc report requests shrinks accordingly.

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Asking your ERP a question in plain language — Badia Partners