For SAP Users

Real-Time Financial & Controlling Reporting in Excel

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SAP is ComplexSAP and its reporting solutions are highly complex, making it difficult for a business user to create and modify FICO reports. Native SAP tools such as Report Painter also tend to be too inflexible for many reporting needs. Business users are often forced to rely heavily on IT resources for assistance in building and modifying reports, which is time consuming and expensive.

Accurate, flexible and fast reporting is essential for any business using SAP. Better cost center reporting, rapid ad-hoc analysis, shorter month-end closing processes and real-time information are becoming increasingly critical as companies look to do more with less, cut costs and maximize profits.

Finance and Controlling Require ExcelFICO professionals love Microsoft Excel®. In fact, over 73% use it daily to support their reporting activities ― after all the exporting, extracting, downloading, copy/pasting or manually keying information from SAP reports into Excel. Unfortunately, these constant manual processes are time-consuming, cumbersome and error-prone. Yet, they seem like the only way to get reports in the format you need.

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Overview

Accessibility• Real-time SAP data in Excel• Build reports with Excel wizards, with no IT

support required• Leverage existing SAP Security and Roles

― log on with SAP username/password• Single Sign-On compatible

Easy-to-Use• Excel interface• Business user tool• Minimal training required• Users up and running

in a few hours

IT Friendly • Rapid installation• No IT resources required

for report creation and modification

• Low cost of ownership

GL Wand is an add-in to Excel that

allows for real-time FICO reporting.

GL Wand Leverages Both PlatformsGL Wand is an Excel add-in that delivers real-time FICO data directly to Excel. Preconfigured against specific FICO Objects and pre-integrated with SAP Security, GL Wand can be installed and ready for use in hours, not days. Utilizing only Excel and SAP, GL Wand makes it easy to obtain, analyze, share, and present essential information when and how you need it so you can better understand your business ― and finally wave goodbye to those late nights and weekends at the office.

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How it Works

Powerful Drill Downs: Access Line Item, Document and Attachment data in Excel with the click of a button.

A Quick Win for FI and CO Teams With rapid installation and minimal IT support, GL Wand is a quick win and helps eliminate timewasting tools and processes while leveraging Excel to streamline reporting, analysis and distribution.

GL Wand fully leverages your existing SAP Security and Roles, including account, cost center, profit center, etc. Function wizards make it easy for users to quickly build new reports and perform ad hoc analysis on the fly.

User Benefits• Real-time FICO reporting in Excel • Excel functions retrieve live Balances, with

drill to Line Items, Documents, and Document Attachments

• Users build & modify reports ― solely in Excel• Minimal training required• Makes Excel reports live and refreshable• Eliminates manual extract/export and re-format

processes• Enables flexible, fast, efficient and deep ad-hoc

analysis• Automates report distribution (see Report

Distribution Manager)

IT Benefits• SAP, HANA and Microsoft certified • Fully integrates with SAP Security • Fast, simple installation• Enables business user self-service• Real-time data for business users in their tool

of choice ― Excel• Leverages existing investments in SAP and

Microsoft platforms• No ABAP or consulting resources required• Only Excel skills required

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Securely access with your

SAP usernameand password

Function Wizards: Easily build new reports with simple Excel Wizards that access specific SAP FI CO Objects.

Excel4apps is a best-in-class provider of Microsoft Excel-based reporting and data-loading software for use with SAP. By empowering business professionals with independent and secure access to real-time ERP data via Microsoft Excel, the company’s products expedite accurate and timely business decisions. Founded in 2005, Excel4apps now serves users in 87+ countries.

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Customers tell us all the time how much they love GL Wand. From calling it a “dream” to it “making life worth living again,” GL Wand has helped professionals in 76+ countries with their FICO reporting, including these key areas:

• Cost-center reporting and analysis• Financial reporting• Trial balances• Operational reporting and analysis• Ad-hoc reporting• Statutory reporting• Planning, budgeting and forecasting• Monthly reconciliations• Audit compliance• Drilling to details• Customer and vendor balances• Cost allocation models• Dynamic dashboards • Funds and grant management

Why It’s Loved

Excel-Based Solutions for SAPExcel4apps enables business users to easily manage their key business processes in Excel with access to real-time data. Our self-service solutions install quickly and integrate seamlessly with SAP, reducing user reliance on IT resources and streamlining Excel-based processes. We help you get more out of the platforms you already own – Microsoft Excel and SAP.

A report that used to take me an 8-hour day to create during a heavy sales month now, on average, takes just one hour to complete.”

Kevin Lybbert, SAP /BusinessProcess Analyst, Purcell Systems

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