Company Info:• Based in Stamford, CT, USA

• Thousands of users world wide

• Holds patent on API Wizard dynamic technology

API Wizard is one enterprise tool that allows users to

streamline all Oracle EBS data processing through Excel.

Fundamental Oracle problemOrganizations waste thousands of resource hours each year because Oracle

EBS is inefficient.

• It’s hard to get business data in and out of Oracle. The

standard interfaces for data entry & data updating are time

consuming and prone to manual data entry errors

• The reporting interfaces are incomplete and outdated.

• Oracle development tools don’t make it easy for I.T. to provide

and maintain powerful, efficient, user friendly solutions.

This wastes time for multiple people, delays decisions, and introduces opportunities for bad data to get into the system.

What Are Your Options?

Oracle EBS customers typically employ a patchwork

of tools and approaches, and significant time and

effort every year, in an ongoing effort to reduce

Oracle data processing pains and bottlenecks.

Each tool and approach has its drawbacks

- Maintaining several tools from a support and maintenance perspective can be

burdensome for IT

-Training users on several tools can be confusing and time consuming

-No cohesive integration between tools

-Lack of prevalidation can introduce bad data in the system

API Wizard vs. Standard Forms/WebADI

Easy Excel interface for multiple

business processes

Pre-validates data in

spreadsheet

Handles large loads of

data easily & quickly

Prebuilt loaders & reports

& easy point n click to build custom

Easy to customize, format, add business

rules &Validations, workflows,

scheduling

Supports parent/child relationships &

multiple APIs in one template

Easy audit all data created

Requires multiple forms/templates for

simple processes, Interface not user

friendly

No Pre-validation

Slow, takes hours for small data loads

IT or Consultants must program and

build multiple templates & reports

Would require programming expertise

Does not support

Does not support

API Wizard vs. Screen Emulators/Dataloader

Process thousands of records fast

Pre-validates data in spreadsheet,

users can correct errors in Excel

Work on other things during upload

Stable architecture with rollback

support ,commit frequency,

status bar and scheduling

Easy to customize, format, add

business rules & validations,

workflows, scheduling

Easy audit all data created

Slow processing time

No Pre-validation

Requires babysitting, locks up computer

Prone to falling over, unstable, can

waste hours waiting and at risk for data

corruption & incorrect data being loaded

Does not support

Does not support

API Wizard vs. IT extensions/Custom programs

Easy Excel interface

Easy to maintain & support, immune

to patching and upgrades

Works with advanced record types

without programming

Easily audit all data created

Setup templates & reports in minutes

Provides real time status bar & rollback

Custom interface requires user training

IT must keep custom program with all

Oracle changes and update every PC

IT must create wrappers to handle

complex data types

Would require programming expertise

Custom programs require SDLC process

In both pl/sql & java to integrate with

APIs

Would require programming expertise

API Wizard vs. “One Off Tools”

Patented technology, fiexible &

immune to Oracle patches, version

Support full dynamic reporting in

Excel with live access to Oracle data

Prebuilt loaders & reports or use an

easy point n click builder for custom

loaders & reports in minutes, tailored

to your specific business processes

Support any business process in any

Oracle area, thousands of processes

Update master data, validate & upload

transactional data & report across

entire EBS In one Excel based tool

Ability to create workflows, schedule

Jobs and monitor status

Harded coded, inflexible, susceptible to

Oracle changes, upgrades, versions

No reporting, only exports of data, not

live data

Hard coded prebuilt templates only

covering certain processes, not tailored

to your business processes

Limited offering, only some Oracle

processes offered

Each process requires a separate tool,

purchase and support

Not offered

API Wizard solves the problem

by combining Oracle and Excel

•Excel User Interface• Instant access to live

Oracle data• Integrate into your

analysis•Charts, graphs, pivot

tables, slicers•Report across every

module• Improve decision

making

Reporting

•Excel User Interface•50-90% Faster•Replaces Oracle

forms •Fully validated•No technical

assistance needed•Upload into any

Oracle module•Significant annual

savings

Data Entry /Updates

•Excel User Interface•Configure vs develop•Powerful IDE•Easy and intuitive

point & click builder•Centralized control•Enforces Oracle

security & EBS roles•More done with less

effort

Development

Data Entry

Vs

Work done in a fraction of the time it takes in Oracle

Processing 20 records in

Oracle can take an hour or

more and requires using

multiple forms

Tedious, slow, and convoluted

OracleFast and Easy!

API Wizard

The same work in API Wizard

only takes a few minutes in

one worksheet

Reporting

Drilldowns Pivot tables / Slicers Dashboarding Individual cell formula reports

Drilldown ability for any type of report. Drilldown wizard to easily create new drilldowns.

• Oracle EBS reporting environment in Microsoft Excel. Easy, efficient, and intuitive.

• Replace Discoverer and FSGs, augment and compliment your BI strategy

• Completely integrated with API Wizard Excel-based data entry and data maintenance

Pivot tables and slicers provide a powerful way to 'slice and dice' your Oracle data. Totally integrated with API Wizard.

Dashboards can include reports (e.g. top 10 lists), pivot tables, graphs, charts, and other visualizations.

Single-cell formulas allow you to create very modular report formulas which can be used in many different types of analysis

Live Oracle reporting in Excel

Development Build Excel-based applications for Oracle in minutes!

API Wizard makes it easy to use Oracle’s integration

points. API Wizard provides:

• Powerful Integrated Development Environment

• Patented point and click Builder

• Ability to rapidly author Excel loaders and reports in minutes without programming

• Supports any Oracle API or custom API

• Link loaders or reports together in one template or sheet

Examples of how customers use API WizardThese are a short list of examples, there is much more you can do in API

Wizard!

Reporting

• Financial reports

• AP and AR Agings

• On-hand quantity

• Budgets

• Asset info and depreciation

• Bookings

• Order fulfillment

• Projects reports

• Margin by customer

• Margin by product

• Etc

Transactional data

• AP and AR invoices

• Cash application

• Orders

• Contracts

• Inventory movements

• Sales

• Project tasks / tracking

• Time and expense

• Purchase orders and

requisitions

• Etc

Master data

• Vendors

• Customers

• Items

• Employees

• Etc.Periodic Tasks

• Period financial close

• Price list updates

• Updating BOMs

• Physical inventory

• Budgets

• Salary updates

• Etc.

Project Tasks

• Upgrading

• Rolling out new modules

• Switching to multi-org

• Acquisitions

• Restructuring

• Etc

Setup data

• Key flexfield setups

• Value set values

• Org and location setups

• Users / responsibilities

• Etc

CONCLUSION

API Wizard is the enterprise productivity platform that lets people do any Oracle EBS data entry, data updating, and reporting work in Excel.

Replace the patchwork of tools and approaches that cost time and money throughout the year and don’t even solve the Oracle problems!