The Wands for Oracle and SAP allow you to leverage your existing Excel skills and combine these with fast and easy access to the data in your ERP. Sometimes more commonly known as Excel4apps, the Wands are the go-to-product for interactive Oracle EBS and SAP reporting without ever leaving Excel.
GL Wand is an add-in to Microsoft Excel that allows for real-time financial reporting on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) or SAP data. It is integrated with your ERP, which means that it is possible to download the software, rapidly install and begin reporting all under one hour, with no lengthy implementation required.
For reporting over all other modules outside of GL (Oracle) and FICO (SAP) you can use Reports Wand. As with GL Wand the Reports Wand tool will add an extra tab to your Excel interface that functions as an ERP client within Excel. For Oracle EBS, Reports Wand can also serve as the perfect replacement for Oracle Discover.
This Excel-based reporting and budget-loading solution lets you create, load, and analyze budgets, better and faster. Mass create and distribute budget models, create rolling forecasts, and develop cost allocation models and dynamic dashboards so you can meet your important financial budgeting and forecasting requirements. The add-on Advanced Insights gives you 300+ report templates as a starting point either to run out of the box or to further customise.
This Microsoft Excel add-in allows for the validation and uploading of planning data from Excel into SAP. Planning Wand, used with GL Wand, transforms Excel into the front end for SAP planning functionality so that you can create, modify, and upload new plans easier, faster and more frequently. Planning Wand supports Cost Planning, New GL Planning, Activity Planning, PCA Planning, and SKF Planning and helps you Access SAP T-Code reports or SAP Queries (SQ01) already existing in SAP.
Journal Wand enables you to load large batches of journal entries into Oracle E-Business Suite right from within Excel. With Journal Wand you can validate the data before you upload it and you autopost and attached documents as well. And this doesn’t only help you. With minimal effort Journal Wand let’s you create, edit, and share customized upload templates as well.
After you’ve created or scheduled your month-end or ad-hoc reports you might want to share them with others in the organization, or even with external stakeholders. For this you can rely on RDM. The Wands’ Report Distribution Manager can help you automate the mass creation and distribution of reports, further reducing Finance’s workload. RDM uses a simple wizard to schedule reports and create distribution lists for output of high-level or detailed reports to email, shared folder or both.
Access to live data from your reports in Excel will allow you to refresh the data with just one click.
Every module comes with templates that can be used as-is, or as starting point for further customisation.
Refreshing live data and drilling down, helps you quickly analyse the data and look for errors. This will make reconciliation much easier and faster.
The Wands allow you to build on your existing Excel skills by linking it to Oracle.
Frustrated with FSG reporting at month end? GL Wand will give you the flexibility you always wish you had already, in a tool you know already, Excel.
Drill down on any number in your report and find the story behind the numbers.
“As Finance Manager, I am much more confident in the accuracy of our numbers, because we access one single version of the truth by reporting straight from the General Ledger and other modules.”
“GL Wand has streamlined our month-end close so that we spend less time struggling to prepare data and more time analyzing it to improve our business strategy and responses.”
“The Wands have provided an immediate improvement in both quality of information and efficiency, helping drive 4 to 5 days out of our monthly closing process.”
