Finance teams frequently need to query SAP data to answer ad hoc questions. However, SAP data structures are complex; understanding them requires significant expertise, and tools like Report Painter require technical knowledge to use them. This leaves finance teams dependent on scarce IT skills to create and modify reports, resulting in delays and frustration.
Finance and accounting teams need to report and drill across multiple dimensions from the Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) modules. For example, you may want to combine views from multiple cost or profit centers and analyze costs by including a cost element combined with a work breakdown structure, internal order, and other fields. Such data groupings are difficult to create with the native SAP reporting tools like Report Painter and Analysis for Office.
Without a proper reporting tool, many finance teams rely on dumping data from BPC into Excelāa cumbersome, error-prone, manual process in which they struggle to meet tight deadlines and ever-rising quality benchmarks. Besides finance wasting time on manual tasks, C-Level decision-makers are left with limited, static, and sometimes erroneous data presentations, without the appropriate context needed to make decisions.
Remove your IT dependency. Empower business users to create their own refreshable and drillable reports, with flexible layouts, against SAP Business Suite (ECC), and S/4HANA. Built-in understanding of SAP data and financial intelligence combine to present business users with an intuitive interface in which they can create custom reports, in minutes, without requiring technical knowledge.
Access real-time data to support month-end closing needs and cost control. Create accurate, up-to-date, consolidated reports across multiple cost and profit centers. Refresh period-on-period analysis reports in seconds without relying on stale data exports. Format income statements, balance sheets, and other reports exactly how you want. Report against fields from different modules and drill into combined data for more insightful financial and cost center reporting.
Shrink reporting cycles by enabling business users to build refreshable reports using easy-to-configure, pre-built templates, or by creating a custom report in minutes. Eliminate the need for time-consuming manual data exports to Excel pivot tables. Refresh reports and run ad hoc account inquiries at any time during the month for interim reporting or to investigate variances on an ongoing basis, not just at month end. Speed up analysis with live drilldowns from summary data to transaction level to identify and resolve reconciliation and data integrity issues.
Enjoy a quick win for finance with rapid installation and fast user adoption, thanks to an intuitive user interface, easy data integration, tight integration with SAP security, and self-help systems that enable business users to start answering questions and building reports from day one.
Empower your team to hit the ground running with the ability to run the reports they need from day one. Our flexible reporting allows users to create the exact reports your business needs. Easily design your own reports or get a head start by using one of our pre-built templates and configuring it to your own specifications. Report across a wide range of areas including:
Real-time financial and custom business reporting directly in Excel for EBS and SAP.
Reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions begin and end with dataānot just how the data are collected, but also how they are stored, organized, and accessed. With a saturated market full of solutions to choose from, you need to have a clear understanding of your data needs before you start comparing your options. In this whitepaper, you will learn:
To assist with your software selection process and help you find a solution that fits your current ERP system and IT infrastructure, we have also created a framework for evaluating third party solutions.
You need to have a clear understanding of your data needs before you start comparing your options.
āGL Wand changes behaviors: It gives the finance team the ability to access and manipulate live SAP data, rather than download it into a separate database and work with it offlineā
