Excel as a Window to Your Oracle Financial Data
John MascarenhasParliament of Victoria &
Michele Buson (Excel4apps)Aug 2010
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Agenda
• About Parliament
• Our Oracle Journey
• Challenges
• About the Excel tool selected
• Demo of tool
About Parliament
• Small government department
• Based in Melbourne
• 128 members of parliament
Oracle Journey
• Implemented Oracle Financials over 11 years ago
• Used FSG for reporting & Budget Tracking
• Currently on 11i (11.5.10.2)
Our Challenges
• ‘Big’ system – with ‘small’ resources
• Used FSG for reporting
• Used GL Reports & Trial balance reports
• Finance team had to provide IT support
• Constantly updating FSG’s
• Resources over stretched
Reporting challenges
• Printing Reports from Oracle
• Scan them in scanner
• Many row sets, column sets, content sets
• There had to be an easier way…
I wish I had a magic wand…
About the tool
• Ease of use• We knew Excel
• Easy to make changes
• Sharing info with other users as PDF or Excel
Why GL Wand• Formula based / Copy Paste works
• Report definition / Data in Excel too
• Real time refresh from Oracle
• Drill to detail
• Presents Oracle data in Excel
• Out the box integration with 11i / R12
• Became Productive in few days
• Low Cost / rapid implementation
• Free trial
Nature of use• Single page executive summary• Summary expenditure report• Detailed expenditure report• Graphs to illustrate in a visual manner• Ad hoc enquires – several years trend analysis• Variance analysis – analysis versus budget or prior year• Project costing – easy consolidation of various cost lines from
several cost centres across the organisation
Benefits
• Increase productivity
• No re-entry – improved accuracy
• Seamless
• Works with ADI for journal creation
• Improved processes
• Increased user satisfaction with Oracle
Demo
Lets take as quick look…
Thank you
Upcoming training
Date: 25 August 2010Venue: Cliftons, 190 - 200 George Street, SydneyRegistration
Date: 17 November 2010Venue: Cliftons, 440 Collins Street, MelbourneRegistration
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