By Freya Purnell
The newest addition to Excel4apps’ suite of Excel-based tools for SAP is Reports Wand, a solution to create Excel-based reports from a range of functional areas or modules within SAP.
IQX Business Solutions, the exclusive distributor of Excel4apps’ SAP products in Australia, launched the product in Sydney last week.
Wilhelm Hamman, managing director – Asia Pacific and Japan, Excel4apps and Richard Frykberg, operations director of IQX Business Solutions at the Reports Wand launch in Sydney last week.
The new solution, which can be used on its own or as a complement to Excel4apps’ GL Wand solution, eliminates the need to continuously re-export data by offering live, direct Excel-based access to all SAP modules.
“With its ability to drill down into SAP data sources outside SAP Financials, Reports Wand opens a universe of new possibilities for developing highly customised reports, while better leveraging an SAP investment,” said Grant Peterson, Excel4apps’ SAP product manager.
“It’s a powerful combination – to use SAP query ability for accessing data anywhere in the ERP system and to capitalise on Excel’s strength as an interface and report creation tool. Because data is refreshable in existing reports, there is no need to reformat a report each time new data is added.”
Reports Wand accesses key SAP modules including:
- Controlling (CO)
- Sales & Distribution (SD)
- Human Capital Management (HCM)
- Materials Management (MM)
- Plant Maintenance (PM)
- Production Planning (PP)
- Finance (FI)
Dave Cole, sales and marketing director of IQX Business Solutions, demonstrating the value of Reports Wand
According to IQX, users can also produce highly detailed and formatted reports without IT involvement using pre-existing SAP queries and SAP reports. If the SAP query does not exist, an organisation’s IT support staff defines the SAP query and turns it over to users for additional customisation in Reports Wand, without the need for ongoing IT support. Integration with existing SAP reports is planned for a future release.
“Our customers love the simplicity and self-sufficiency offered by GL Wand and the introduction of Reports Wand extends these benefits to all ERP users,” said Dave Cole, sales and marketing director, IQX Business Solutions.
