Spreadsheets

Wales & West Utilities uses Winshuttle to streamline SAP data loading and extraction in multiple business areas, from finance to asset management. In 2008, Wales & West Utilities underwent a major cost centre restructure, shifting ownership of assets and improving process efficiencies across the entire company. Among other things that meant collating a huge amount of new or updated information within spreadsheets, then transferring that data to SAP within a...

This white paper describes how Winshuttle data management applications enable finance, accounts payable/receivable, purchasing, human resources and production planning teams to easily automate the incorporation of Excel data into an SAP solution. Critical business decisions must be based upon timely, accurate information. Manual entry of Microsoft Office Excel data into the SAP Business Suite is not a reasonable option because it is time intensive and prone to errors. To...

This white paper describes how SAP customers use Winshuttle solutions to automate the shuttling of financial data between Microsoft Excel and SAP transactions. This white paper describes how SAP customers use Winshuttle solutions to automate the shuttling of financial data between Microsoft Excel and SAP transactions. This paper is written for business decision makers (BDMs) in medium or large enterprises who want to know more about how Winshuttle software can improve...

This white paper examines existing data-loading methods and best practices to easily incorporate data into SAP solutions. An organization's ability to act swiftly and make business decisions is based on having access to complete and accurate views of enterprise data. Companies recognize the value in leveraging all of their corporate information and the benefits of reconciling data into consolidated views, but the path to get there can be difficult. Getting data into...

This white paper explains how users, managers, and network administrators view and utilize SharePoint. It also explains how SharePoint works for both SharePoint users and architects. This white paper will first examine how users, managers, and network administrators view and utilize SharePoint. It will then explore how SharePoint works for both SharePoint users and architects. Finally, this paper will list and explain six typical tasks SharePoint architects are...

While there are many "how to" options to extending agile beyond a few teams, this white paper focuses on critical recommendations for organizations moving to full-scale agile development. Avoiding these pitfalls can mean the difference between... Transitioning from small-scale agile successes to large-scale effective agile projects can be a complex process. Scaling agile methods is a significant undertaking for an organization. The implications are far-reaching and diverse...

Location intelligence software helps companies increase B2B sales by improving customer and prospect knowledge, managing their sales channels proactively, responding faster to changing market conditions and improving their channel structure and alignment. Communications companies that wish to pursue the small and medium business markets are urged to reach outside their organization and employ the latest location intelligence tools.

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The market for business intelligence platforms is moving away from a position dominated by pure-play vendors. This paper discusses why this is being driven by a trend for consolidation, from several large application and software infrastructure vendors. The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms presents a global view of Gartner's opinion of the main software vendors that should be considered by organizations seeking to develop business intelligence (BI...

This white paper explores a platform that aligns business strategy, analysis and execution, ensuring that the requirements of both business and IT stakeholders are met in day to day operations. Organization's often find that their efforts to define enterprise strategy and architecture, analyze and optimize business processes, and execute day to day operations fall short of expectations. This typically occurs because businesses overlook the critical role collaboration...

This Forrester Wave™ evaluation of enterprise BI platforms are Panorama Software and QlikTech, who, while lacking the breadth of features to qualify them as single, large-enterprise BI solutions, are reputable contenders. In Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, they found that IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their leadership positions, while Oracle and SAS Institute move into...

This white paper shows you how template-based compliance management (TBCM) makes it easy to achieve regulatory requirements like PCI, SOX, HIPPA, and GLBA. The demands brought on by regulatory requirements like PCI, SOX, HIPPA, and GLBA are exacerbated by scarce resources, reliance on manual processes, and ever-changing policies. This white paper explains how template-based compliance management (TBCM) simplifies compliance projects and enables the following benefits:

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IBM's OmniFind™ Enterprise Edition is posed as a candidate solution, addressing the requirements for enterprise integration, usability, and security. As competitive markets continue to demand increasing responsiveness and business agility from organizations, employees will need more effective tools for finding and accessing information quickly and accurately. Search and content federation services represent technologies that can assist employees...

Read this whitepaper to explore how a comprehensive performance management solution brings together the individual threads of organizations to form a complete picture without the risk and management challenges common in spreadsheets. Many organizations initially engage performance management using spreadsheets but quickly realize issues with data accuracy, integrity and security hinder their ability to truly understand how their organization is performing...

This white paper details four Java-based approaches essential for eliminating the challenges of extending spreadsheet logic beyond a single desktop. Companies of all sizes rely on the information produced by spreadsheets to make important business decisions. Over time, these spreadsheets grow in complexity and the company needs to extend the spreadsheet logic beyond a single desktop but to do so in Java formatting is very difficult.

This paper will provide four different...

This paper outlines the reasons why generating and distributing spreadsheet reports is so tedious and error prone by examining the typical steps in the process. Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used tools for reporting, analysis and "what if" scenarios, with over 250 million users worldwide. The drawback so many users and different solutions is that the resulting spreadsheet reports typically lack visual formatting such as the formulas, wording, etc.

This paper will...

This white paper discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to prevent sensitive customer data. Addressing information protection and control (IPC) is a complex challenge. Today, nearly all corporate information exists in electronic form, typically stored in databases, so any IPC strategy requires enterprises to start by...