Excel apps is a wide excel based reporting and loading software for both System Application and Products (SAP) and Oracle. This software has an addition called report wand for its GL wand reporting tool. The GL wand reporting tool makes it easier to access the real-time modification of Oracle data. Report wands produce Oracle data with total back-end sources of data that are auditable. These wand reports are a form of starting points and are always generic naturally. Report wands for Oracle have the following advantages.

High Flexibility

Report wands for Oracle have a very high speed and flexibility when it comes to real-time formatting, filtering, and sorting data in Oracle. Without Information technology (IT) assistance, these wands can run their own Structured Query Language (SQL) independently. Due to this flexibility, the reporting wand creates reports that are very complex and greatly customized. This high flexibility has allowed users to generate reports faster and do modifications and customization in the correct format.

Extended Set of Tools Availability

Wands provide an additional set of tools that can quickly create ad hoc reports that have been tailored perfectly. Report outputs can also be saved, and trend analysis carried out in the process. Report wands can as well track down incremental reports. Wands can use pivot tables, user-defined functions, charts, and Excel formatting to create a variety of reporting that is of the set standards by IT. This set of tools provide parameters that modify and adjust reports to the expectation of the user. Ultimately, this allows users to get the right data in the required format.

Productivity Improvement

Productivity is boosted because of the real-time data produced in the right format. By extension of their drill functions into other modules, report wands provide maximum abilities in their reporting and on other Oracle modules. Report wands offer its users an Excel front end making it easier to learn increasing its productivity. This feature also gives the reporting wand an added advantage over the other add on that is available on Excel4apps. The fact that users that use report wands work independently of IT support also makes them more productive.

Conclusion

Reporting of Oracle E-business Suite (EBS) has become user-friendly and cost-effective due to the addition of report wands. It is a quick and easy way of generating reports from real-time Oracle data in Excel. The benefits of report creations have been taken up by report wands and have grown to be the best reporting solution in finance.