Excel as a Window to Your Oracle Financial Data
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The document discusses the experiences of the Parliament of Victoria in utilizing Excel as an interface for their Oracle Financials system, highlighting a 11-year journey with various challenges faced in reporting and financial analysis. It emphasizes the benefits of using the Excel tool for real-time data refresh, improved user satisfaction, and increased productivity due to its ease of use and seamless integration with Oracle. Additionally, the document mentions upcoming training sessions for further implementation and use of the tool.
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Excel as a Window to Your Oracle Financial Data
- 1. Excel as a Window to Your Oracle Financial Data John Mascarenhas Parliament of Victoria & Michele Buson (Excel4apps) Aug 2010 The most comprehensive Oracle applications & technology content under one roof
- 2. Agenda About Parliament Our Oracle Journey Challenges About the Excel tool selected Demo of tool
- 3. About Parliament Small government department Based in Melbourne 128 members of parliament
- 4. Oracle Journey Implemented Oracle Financials over 11 years ago Used FSG for reporting & Budget Tracking Currently on 11i (11.5.10.2)
- 5. Our Challenges ‘ Big’ system – with ‘small’ resources Used FSG for reporting Used GL Reports & Trial balance reports Finance team had to provide IT support Constantly updating FSG’s Resources over stretched
- 6. Reporting challenges Printing Reports from Oracle Scan them in scanner Many row sets, column sets, content sets There had to be an easier way…
- 7. I wish I had a magic wand…
- 8. About the tool Ease of use We knew Excel Easy to make changes Sharing info with other users as PDF or Excel
- 9. Why GL Wand Formula based / Copy Paste works Report definition / Data in Excel too Real time refresh from Oracle Drill to detail Presents Oracle data in Excel Out the box integration with 11i / R12 Became Productive in few days Low Cost / rapid implementation Free trial
- 10. Nature of use Single page executive summary Summary expenditure report Detailed expenditure report Graphs to illustrate in a visual manner Ad hoc enquires – several years trend analysis Variance analysis – analysis versus budget or prior year Project costing – easy consolidation of various cost lines from several cost centres across the organisation
- 11. Benefits Increase productivity No re-entry – improved accuracy Seamless Works with ADI for journal creation Improved processes Increased user satisfaction with Oracle
- 12. Demo Lets take as quick look…
- 16. Thank you [email_address] [email_address] Upcoming training Date: 25 August 2010 Venue: Cliftons, 190 - 200 George Street, Sydney Registration Date: 17 November 2010 Venue: Cliftons, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne Registration