HintSight provides a cloud-native platform to connect and reconcile data from tax engines, documents, and other sources to augment SAP tax reporting and compliance. The platform offers operational reporting, tax simulation capabilities for testing, and data extraction tools to verify recorded tax calculations against source documents. This service helps tax departments monitor automation effectiveness, ensure data consistency across tax areas, and identify inefficiencies impacting cash flow.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Tax departments that rely on SAP often encounter fragmented data sources, manual reconciliation, and hidden transaction‑level errors that undermine indirect‑tax automation and increase audit risk. Incomplete document capture and inconsistent master data further obscure tax liabilities, leading to over‑payments, under‑payments, and costly rework.
Solution
HintSight delivers a cloud‑native analytics‑as‑a‑service platform that aggregates and reconciles data from SAP tax engines, enterprise ERP extracts, and unstructured document images into a single, trusted tax data lake. The platform runs continuous validation, applies machine‑learning anomaly detection, and automatically corrects pre‑ and post‑calculation discrepancies to keep tax automation accurate. Built‑in modules—AnyTax Reporting, Tax Simulations, and TaxTract—enable on‑demand scenario testing, what‑if analysis, and OCR‑driven extraction of tax‑relevant fields from invoices and contracts. Results are exposed via secure APIs and can be streamed to BI tools, data warehouses, or directly back into SAP, supporting real‑time compliance monitoring and audit readiness. All processing adheres to GDPR‑level data masking, encryption‑at‑rest, and role‑based access controls, ensuring enterprise‑grade security while eliminating the need for custom ETL development.
Target Audience
Primary users are corporate indirect‑tax teams and finance compliance officers managing SAP ECC/HANA environments, as well as tax consultants and auditors who require reliable, consolidated tax data for reporting and validation.
Features
- Unified ingestion pipeline that pulls SAP DART extracts, custom ERP feeds, and cloud‑based bots to harvest tax data from APIs, portals, and file repositories.
- OCR and AI‑enhanced document parsing (TaxTract) that extracts line‑item tax details, jurisdiction codes, and tax IDs from PDFs, images, and spreadsheets, then cross‑validates against SAP records.
- Tax Simulation Engine (TSM) with BYOL support that re‑calculates indirect taxes using alternative driver sets, open location codes, and custom jurisdiction logic for regression testing and scenario planning.
- Machine‑learning anomaly detection models that flag mismatched tax codes, duplicate invoices, tax‑on‑tax, and jurisdiction errors, providing actionable remediation recommendations.
- Cloud‑based analytics layer delivering hyper‑cubes and real‑time dashboards, exportable to Power BI, Tableau, Google BigQuery, or flat files, with configurable delivery endpoints.
- End‑to‑end security stack: on‑the‑fly PII redaction, AES‑256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, and audit‑ready logging for compliance.
- Extensible API suite (REST/GraphQL) for seamless integration with existing tax engines, ERP systems, and third‑party compliance tools.