Spreadsheet Automation Tools
Spreadsheet Server
Spreadsheet Server is an innovative Microsoft® Excel add-in that allows users to access 'live' data within Excel, while maintaining the full ability to drill down to supporting details. Spreadsheet Server enables users to leverage the familiarity of Microsoft Excel as a reporting and analysis tool while providing up-to-the-minute dynamic data. The key is to keep it simple. Spreadsheet Server is the tool of choice because of its ease of use. Users of Spreadsheet Server can simply open a spreadsheet and watch the balances of their spreadsheet populate with dynamic financial balances. The unique drill down capability takes the tool to a new level of detail by allowing individual transactions to be monitored.
Spreadsheet Server is configured for the widely used ERP systems listed below, including our Designer GL Series for any system you do not see listed here. Download one of these PDF's for more information:
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Executive DASH™
Excel-based Executive DASH allows users to build dashboard-type views of critical business data. Executive DASH and Spreadsheet Server work together seamlessly, marrying information in your ERP's general ledger with key performance indicators (KPIs). Executive DASH provides dynamic access to data sources from multiple platforms, including IBM® iSeries™/AS/400®, ORACLE®, Microsoft® SQL Server and Microsoft® Access. Executive DASH is a 'buffet-style' analysis tool that brings disparate data into Excel and eliminates the challenges often associated with static business intelligence (BI) tools.
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Budget Manager
Budget Manager transforms your budgeting process into a dynamic, flexible, and responsive system. Leveraging the popularity of Excel as a budget- building tool, Budget Manager extracts budget data from spreadsheets into a central database. The time your business will save accumulating static budget detail will translate quickly into time spent on analysis and strategic planning. Additionally, all Budget Manager formats and layouts are completely user-defined, resulting in a streamlined interface for your managers.
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Enterprise Budgeting
The Enterprise Budgeting application provides users with simplified budget setup and administration, in a familiar Microsoft® Excel-based Budget Model. At the center of the Enterprise Budgeting application is a Budgeting Database. This database holds the budget structures, budget data and budget model definitions. With centrally defined spread methods and budget rules, and role-based security, Enterprise Budgeting provides workbook tracking, defined budget submission policies and an intuitive distribution process. Enterprise Budgeting is also compatible with Global Software, Inc.'s flagship Spreadsheet Server product, as well as the Executive DASH™ and Spreadsheet Analyst applications.
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Distribution Manager
Distribution Manager for use with Excel automates the delivery of key business information to your critical users. Eliminate unnecessary printing, copying and email attachments. Empower your users with a tool that delivers this business-critical information in an easy and efficient manner. Benefits include automated, full delivery of reports and files through email, printing, and archiving, unlimited file attachments of all types, ability to define key variables available to all spreadsheets, ability to provide custom parameters to spreadsheets prior to re-calculating, and much more ...
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Spreadsheet Analyst
Do you want to generate monthly management reports automatically, utilizing information directly from general ledger systems? Do you want your accountants to spend more time analyzing reports, rather than correcting, maintaining and distributing them? If so, Spreadsheet Analyst is your Microsoft® Excel-based application answer. Spreadsheet Analyst helps finance departments produce and deliver monthly management reports within hours of the ledger closing. Spreadsheet Analyst enables finance departments to shorten the reporting cycle saving time and ensuring accuracy so that you are free to add quality to the way you work.
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Spreadsheet Analyst Budgeting
Spreadsheet Analyst Budgeting solves the problems associated with distributed, enterprise-wide budgeting processes. The Spreadsheet Analyst Budgeting system automates the creation, distribution, collection and tracking of Excel-based budget and forecast input. With this budgeting tool, your company can continue to run its budgeting processes in Microsoft® Excel — not according to someone else's pre-defined budgeting rules. Spreadsheet Analyst Budgeting enables your finance department to shorten the budgeting cycle; saving time and ensuring accuracy — so that you are free to increase quality and apply business intelligence to your budget templates.
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Spreadsheet Analyst Consolidations
Finance departments call on Spreadsheet Analyst Consolidations for both statutory and management reporting purposes. Spreadsheet Analyst Consolidations effectively merges the reporting processes and eliminates many of the reconciliation problems between management and statutory accounts with one stroke. Let Spreadsheet Analyst Consolidations accelerate reporting timescales and enable a faster period end close for your business. Managing the consolidation process, this tool helps finance departments deliver financial statements that illustrate both financial and non-financial critical performance measures to meet the expectations of your varied audiences.
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Spreadsheet Analyst Filter
The Spreadsheet Analyst applications use a patented technology, the Spreadsheet Analyst Filter, to generate a Microsoft® SQL Server, Microsoft® Access, Oracle®, AS400 or IBM® DB2 reporting data warehouse. This Filter builds and maintains the transfer of your existing chart of accounts and data required from your source system and other data sources for reporting, budgeting or consolidation purposes. In addition, a customizable Universal Database Access Filter (UDA Filter) can build links to any transaction system through a Microsoft Wizard-driven control panel for data mapping and automation of data transfers for any of Global's Spreadsheet Analyst applications.
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