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Company Info:• Based in Stamford, CT, USA
• Thousands of users world wide
• Holds patent on API Wizard dynamic technology
API Wizard is one enterprise tool that allows users to
streamline all Oracle EBS data processing through Excel.
Fundamental Oracle problemOrganizations waste thousands of resource hours each year because Oracle
EBS is inefficient.
• It’s hard to get business data in and out of Oracle. The
standard interfaces for data entry & data updating are time
consuming and prone to manual data entry errors
• The reporting interfaces are incomplete and outdated.
• Oracle development tools don’t make it easy for I.T. to provide
and maintain powerful, efficient, user friendly solutions.
This wastes time for multiple people, delays decisions, and introduces opportunities for bad data to get into the system.
What Are Your Options?
Oracle EBS customers typically employ a patchwork
of tools and approaches, and significant time and
effort every year, in an ongoing effort to reduce
Oracle data processing pains and bottlenecks.
Each tool and approach has its drawbacks
- Maintaining several tools from a support and maintenance perspective can be
burdensome for IT
-Training users on several tools can be confusing and time consuming
-No cohesive integration between tools
-Lack of prevalidation can introduce bad data in the system
API Wizard vs. Standard Forms/WebADI
Easy Excel interface for multiple
business processes
Pre-validates data in
spreadsheet
Handles large loads of
data easily & quickly
Prebuilt loaders & reports
& easy point n click to build custom
Easy to customize, format, add business
rules &Validations, workflows,
scheduling
Supports parent/child relationships &
multiple APIs in one template
Easy audit all data created
Requires multiple forms/templates for
simple processes, Interface not user
friendly
No Pre-validation
Slow, takes hours for small data loads
IT or Consultants must program and
build multiple templates & reports
Would require programming expertise
Does not support
Does not support
API Wizard vs. Screen Emulators/Dataloader
Process thousands of records fast
Pre-validates data in spreadsheet,
users can correct errors in Excel
Work on other things during upload
Stable architecture with rollback
support ,commit frequency,
status bar and scheduling
Easy to customize, format, add
business rules & validations,
workflows, scheduling
Easy audit all data created
Slow processing time
No Pre-validation
Requires babysitting, locks up computer
Prone to falling over, unstable, can
waste hours waiting and at risk for data
corruption & incorrect data being loaded
Does not support
Does not support
API Wizard vs. IT extensions/Custom programs
Easy Excel interface
Easy to maintain & support, immune
to patching and upgrades
Works with advanced record types
without programming
Easily audit all data created
Setup templates & reports in minutes
Provides real time status bar & rollback
Custom interface requires user training
IT must keep custom program with all
Oracle changes and update every PC
IT must create wrappers to handle
complex data types
Would require programming expertise
Custom programs require SDLC process
In both pl/sql & java to integrate with
APIs
Would require programming expertise
API Wizard vs. “One Off Tools”
Patented technology, fiexible &
immune to Oracle patches, version
Support full dynamic reporting in
Excel with live access to Oracle data
Prebuilt loaders & reports or use an
easy point n click builder for custom
loaders & reports in minutes, tailored
to your specific business processes
Support any business process in any
Oracle area, thousands of processes
Update master data, validate & upload
transactional data & report across
entire EBS In one Excel based tool
Ability to create workflows, schedule
Jobs and monitor status
Harded coded, inflexible, susceptible to
Oracle changes, upgrades, versions
No reporting, only exports of data, not
live data
Hard coded prebuilt templates only
covering certain processes, not tailored
to your business processes
Limited offering, only some Oracle
processes offered
Each process requires a separate tool,
purchase and support
Not offered
API Wizard solves the problem
by combining Oracle and Excel
•Excel User Interface• Instant access to live
Oracle data• Integrate into your
analysis•Charts, graphs, pivot
tables, slicers•Report across every
module• Improve decision
making
Reporting
•Excel User Interface•50-90% Faster•Replaces Oracle
forms •Fully validated•No technical
assistance needed•Upload into any
Oracle module•Significant annual
savings
Data Entry /Updates
•Excel User Interface•Configure vs develop•Powerful IDE•Easy and intuitive
point & click builder•Centralized control•Enforces Oracle
security & EBS roles•More done with less
effort
Development
Data Entry
Vs
Work done in a fraction of the time it takes in Oracle
Processing 20 records in
Oracle can take an hour or
more and requires using
multiple forms
Tedious, slow, and convoluted
OracleFast and Easy!
API Wizard
The same work in API Wizard
only takes a few minutes in
one worksheet
Reporting
Drilldowns Pivot tables / Slicers Dashboarding Individual cell formula reports
Drilldown ability for any type of report. Drilldown wizard to easily create new drilldowns.
• Oracle EBS reporting environment in Microsoft Excel. Easy, efficient, and intuitive.
• Replace Discoverer and FSGs, augment and compliment your BI strategy
• Completely integrated with API Wizard Excel-based data entry and data maintenance
Pivot tables and slicers provide a powerful way to 'slice and dice' your Oracle data. Totally integrated with API Wizard.
Dashboards can include reports (e.g. top 10 lists), pivot tables, graphs, charts, and other visualizations.
Single-cell formulas allow you to create very modular report formulas which can be used in many different types of analysis
Live Oracle reporting in Excel
Development Build Excel-based applications for Oracle in minutes!
API Wizard makes it easy to use Oracle’s integration
points. API Wizard provides:
• Powerful Integrated Development Environment
• Patented point and click Builder
• Ability to rapidly author Excel loaders and reports in minutes without programming
• Supports any Oracle API or custom API
• Link loaders or reports together in one template or sheet
Examples of how customers use API WizardThese are a short list of examples, there is much more you can do in API
Wizard!
Reporting
• Financial reports
• AP and AR Agings
• On-hand quantity
• Budgets
• Asset info and depreciation
• Bookings
• Order fulfillment
• Projects reports
• Margin by customer
• Margin by product
• Etc
Transactional data
• AP and AR invoices
• Cash application
• Orders
• Contracts
• Inventory movements
• Sales
• Project tasks / tracking
• Time and expense
• Purchase orders and
requisitions
• Etc
Master data
• Vendors
• Customers
• Items
• Employees
• Etc.Periodic Tasks
• Period financial close
• Price list updates
• Updating BOMs
• Physical inventory
• Budgets
• Salary updates
• Etc.
Project Tasks
• Upgrading
• Rolling out new modules
• Switching to multi-org
• Acquisitions
• Restructuring
• Etc
Setup data
• Key flexfield setups
• Value set values
• Org and location setups
• Users / responsibilities
• Etc