Excel-Based Financial / Enterprise Automation Solutions

Why wait when you can automate? In today's rapidly changing business environment, downtime translates quickly into lost productivity, revenue and even lost customers. Global Software Inc.'s Microsoft® Excel-based enterprise automation suite eliminates downtime in financial reporting through the application of cutting edge Internet-based automation tools. Our mainstream financial application tools reduce reporting and analysis time, allowing our customers to concentrate on what they do best.

Global Software Inc.'s additional offerings include Financial Applications, comprised of iSuite- internet-based general ledger, accounts payable, purchase order and fixed assets; iSeries Financials- fixed assets, accounts payable/receivable, general ledger, cash management, lease accounting and purchase orders; Business Alerts, Data Agent Server and School Safety Software.

The coexistence strategy:
Companies with existing ERP systems benefit from Global's Excel automation tools through the integration of Global's flagship technology with existing applications. The popular coexistence strategy allows companies to interlock various reporting and financial systems with Global's unique spreadsheet automation technology, making information accessible from within the familiar environment of Microsoft® Excel.

The challenge for executives in many organizations is how to translate key business data--spreadsheets, databases, statics, reports--into goals and objectives, and ultimately into actions. The key is to identify and track key performance indicators as predictive measures for future success.

Superior business performance is dependent on aligning the enterprise with corporate strategy and key performance metrics. Yet most companies fail to communicate their goals and most fail to translate these strategies into meaningful performance metrics.

Our Excel-based automation suite includes Spreadsheet Server, Executive DASH and Budget Manager.

The inability to access live information from financial reporting tools can be debilitating to even the most efficiently run organization. Powered by Global Software, Inc.'s Excel automation technology, Spreadsheet Server is an innovative 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 'real-time' 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. It can also run against the databases on the IBM® iSeries/AS/400®, ORACLE®, Microsoft® SQL Server, and Microsoft® Access, as well as for use with Global Software, Inc.'s general ledger.

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.

- Access live data within your organization's databases
- Perform dynamic calculations and view detail with multi-level drill down capabilities
- Import/export pre-defined queries from external sources
- Use data from your spreadsheet as parameters for your query
- Use the Excel Wizard tool to easily create spreadsheet formulas
- Export drill down data back into your spreadsheet
- Easily configure an efficient drill down process
- No Initial configuration of data cubes requirements

Executive DASH is a 'buffet-style' analysis tool that brings disparate data into Excel and eliminates the challenges often associated with static business intelligent (BI) tools.

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.

- Tree-view control of all of your budget spreadsheets
- Allows multiple revisions of your budget from tracking to completion
- Optional extraction of data into Excel via Spreadsheet Server
- Automatic build of budget data file for upload into your general ledger

Budget Manager is configured for ERP systems such as Oracle®, JD Edwards®, SAP®, PeopleSoft®, Lawson® (M3 & S3), JACK HENRY, Infor ERP (LX, FMS, XA, SyteLine, Aurora System 21), as well as for use with Global Software, Inc.'s general ledger.

The age of shrinking margins....No matter how much an organization increases their revenue on a year-to-year basis, the cost of doing modern business causes margins of profitability continually to shrink. Complex regulatory compliance efforts have stretched financial and human resources to the limit. Organizations need a way to unify large quantities of disjointed application information without having to invest in already tapped out development and hardware resources. Essentially, organizations need accessible, transparent access to information.

Our tools include financial solutions for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Project Accounting and Lease Accounting. Our reporting applications help your organization:

- increase visibility, ensure compliance with financial regulations
- control expenditures, eliminate surprises
- gain critical insights, improve financial decision-making