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Oracle Reporting with
the Ease of Excel
Len Snell - Regional Sales Manager
About Excel4appsAgenda
The Challenge
Solutions
Demonstration
Benefits
Success
Next Steps
About Excel4apps
www.excel4apps.com/seeit
About Excel4apps
Focused
Dedicated to the development
of superior financial reporting
solutions for Oracle
“Excel is where we do most of our work, and because of that familiarity, we could see how GL Wand might make us more productive.”
Diane Pinkerman, Director of Finance, Jacksonville Aviation Authority
Trusted
Founded in 2005
Used by over 550 of the world’s
leading companies with over
14,000 users in over 62
countries worldwide
“Rarely do users thank you for a new product, but almost every controller has thanked IT for GL Wand.”
Rob Duncan, Chief Information Officer, Powell Industries
Sydney, Australia
Globally Supported
“We actually got overnight responses…we would send an email with a question or problem and the next morning we would get an explanation or even a patch to help us with our specific problem.”
Dale Kukielka, Senior Business Analyst, Upsher-Smith Laboratories
Corporate headquarters:
Sydney, Australia
N. America headquarters:
Raleigh, NC
Regional offices:
- Australia
- United States
- United Kingdom
- United Arab Emirates
- Singapore
- South Africa
Raleigh, NC
United States
Cape Town,
South Africa
Recognized
OAUG 5 Star Partner
Voted “Most Innovative” at
South African Oracle Users
Group (SAOUG)
Awarded Partner of the Year for
past 3 years for UK Oracle
Users Group (UKOUG)
Awarded UK Oracle Users
Group (UKOUG) “Software
Product of the Year” Finalist for
2012 Business Finance Awards “Excel4apps has a relationship-oriented philosophy and takes care of its customers and partners.”
Jose Flores, Associate Director, Quadrantix
The Challenge
Solutions
GL Wand
Excel “Live” Refresh 11i or R12
Replacement for Client ADI
Accelerate EO Period Closes
No data warehouse needed
Automate Report Distribution
Leverage Existing Security
Ease your Upgrade to R12
GL WandGET BALANCE
FUNCTION >>
Connect to live
Oracle data with
simple formulas in
Excel.
www.excel4apps.com/oracle
DRILL DOWN >> Drill down to the balance, journal or
even subledger level by double clicking any item.
Demonstration
1) Easy to install and use.
11i, R12
Test for yourself
in the trial.
2) Report data always = Oracle EBS “LIVE” data.
Test refresh
performance
direct from
Oracle in trial
3) Lower cost of ownership.
Ask
technologists to
review the
architecture and
desktop install.
4) Secure. Test for yourself
in the trial.
5) Proven global product support.
Ask our other
global
customers.
Test us in trial.
6) Proven remote report development services and
training services available.
Choose to do it
yourself or ask
us to assist
7) Try before you buy. Low risk
purchase.
Benefits
Hard to create dashboards Easy Dashboarding
Create drillable dashboards
at a fraction of the cost.
Data is out-of-date Real-time ReportingReal-time Oracle data is
available for performing
reconciliations and month end.
No background refresh.
No Data warehouse.
Static FSG Reports Easy Excel based reports
Save 2-4 days per user via
increased productivity. Excel
front end to real-time data!
Browser Inquiry inefficient Drillable Excel InquiryResolve queries faster.
Increase Validity of
Spreadsheet data via drill
to balances, journals,
subledgers.
Hard to share reports Email as PDF, XLS
Automate month end via mass
sharing to the right people using
Report Distribution Manager.
Hard to write reports Report creation easy as Copy & Paste
No dependency on IT. Easily
created tailored reports using
Copy & Paste.
Success
Gartner
World leading IT research & advisory company.
Partner to 13,000 companies in 85 countries
Gartner proposes using Financial Analytic
products like Excel4apps as part of a broader
business analytic strategy
1 Source: Gartner Report: “IT Market Clock
for Financial Management”, Analyst: Nigel
Rayner, August 14, 2013
Report referenced is not public, you will need to
request from your Gartner representative
Report Highlights for Financial Analytic Applications
1. “Offerings from specialist vendors remain popular as a tactical, cost-effective way to improve finance end-user reporting and analysis with minimal IT involvement. Many of these, such as Excel4apps are linked to specific core financial applications/ERP suites” 1
Excel4apps empowers end users to create their own reports in Excel.
2. “Consider applications from specialist vendors on a tactical basis, but you must view these applications as part of a broader business analytics strategy.” 1
Excel4apps solutions complement your BI strategy, are quick to install, easy to use, solve a specific business problem and have a low total cost of ownership.
Characteristics
1. Packaged Data Extraction Capability:
Applications include predefined connector to data sources like ERPs
Excel4apps has packaged connectors for both SAP and Oracle for real-time
access to data.
2. Predefined Data Model:
“The financial modules in ERP applications generally have limited reporting
capabilities, due to their complex data models. These applications enable finance
users to create their own financial and management reports, and perform ad hoc
analysis without significant IT support.” 1
Hides complex underlying application models from users
Excel4apps leverages existing Excel competencies of users and wizards make reports quick and easy to create.
“Installation is as easy as you can
get from a software standpoint…
from an IT standpoint, we could
see that maintenance was
extremely minimal.”
Rob Duncan, CEO, Powell Industries
“GL Wand is a fabulous
tool, we love it”
Donna Holley,
Spectranetics
“GL Wand has given our
finance users the freedom to
think outside the box and be
more innovative with business
performance metrics”
Martin Stanton, VP Finance,
Destination Hotels & Resorts
“GL Wand has been a
big hit with Cairn’s
Finance team.“
Chris Hebden,
Cairn Energy PLC
“I estimate it will save
me 2-3 days per month”
Divisional Accountant,
Multiplex
“GL Wand has proven
extremely valuable in
accessing our Oracle
data with Excel"
Michael Hinck, Finance
Systems Project Manager,
HBO
Customers
“It took less than two
hours to train report
users. The time savings
for everyone is incredible”
Francis Nocom, Application
Manager, Cochlear
www.excel4apps.com/loveit
Over 14,000 users in
62 countries
Over 25 published
customer case studies
Next Steps
Free Trial
Free in-house 30-day Trial
Unlimited users
No middleware or data warehouse
requirements
Installs in minutes
Use Report Wizard to build report
www.excel4apps.com/trialit
3 Simple Steps
www.excel4apps.com
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Connect
Leonard Snell
Regional Sales Manager
603-660-2070
