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Our white papers will help you learn more about current SAP challenges, the latest technologies, and best-of-breed solutions available for your organization from Winshuttle.


10 Places to Reduce Data Management Costs

This white paper highlights 10 easy places SAP customers can reduce IT operational costs, with a focus on trimming support and data entry costs by automating data entry. It is intended both for leaders of SAP® competency centers and for business process owners looking for ways to do more with less.

10 Ways Excel Drives More Value from your SAP Investment

This white paper highlights 10 ways Winshuttle's tools and applications utilize Microsoft Office applications and allow you to optimize your SAP investment. Whether you're the CIO, the leader of an SAP competency center or a business process owner looking for more effective ways to manage your SAP operations, the benefits outlined in this white paper are realized by the reduction of SAP operational costs, delivering across the board efficiencies and accelerating top and bottom line improvements.

5 Ways Excel Accelerates Your Return on SAP FICO Business Processes

How can a finance and/or controller professional access SAP FICO data leveraging Microsoft Excel in a highly usable and interoperable fashion while respecting all of the SAP core security and governance controls?  In order to fully explore this question, this white paper highlights five valuable ways to leverage Microsoft Excel to reduce Finance & Controller operational costs while making your SAP FICO systems implementation, management and maintenance life easier.

5 Ways Excel Accelerates Your Return on SAP HCM Business Processes

There are many ideas for improving business processes, but sometimes these come with additional costs. Conversely, there are many ways to reduce the operational costs associated with an SAP HCM implementation, but these may result in increasing the workload and burden on key resources. Winshuttle believes that with the right Excel-based tools, users can achieve the ideal balance – improved HR business processes and reduced operational costs, all while making their SAP HCM lives easier and more productive.


Accelerating SAP SCM ROI

Referring to several SCM use cases, this white paper illustrates best practices, shows how many companies are overcoming usability challenges, and offers alternatives to common SCM integration issues.

Addressing Security Performance Usability with Query

This white paper describes Winshuttle Query and how it addresses performance, security, and usability concerns while giving users a way to extract live SAP data for ad hoc analysis.

Automating Order to Cash

This white paper describes how SAP® Business Suite customers can use Winshuttle software to automate the Order-to-Cash business process through the user-enabled loading of Excel data. It describes how Winshuttle software can speed data integration and improve productivity. The paper is written for business decision makers (BDMs) in medium or large enterprises who have responsibility for the Order-to-Cash business process.

B2E Self-Service for SAP

This paper discusses the benefits of the Business-to-Employee (B2E) model and how newer technologies make it easier for organizations to implement B2E applications using SAP

Best Practices for Data Loading into SAP

Getting data into the company's ERP system in a timely and accurate manner is a critical success factor in business decisions. This white paper examines existing data-loading methods and best practices to easily incorporate data into SAP® solutions.

Best Practices for Winshuttle Enterprise Deployment

This white paper provides advice and examples of best practices for organizations planning an Enterprise Deployment of the Winshuttle Platform. In this context, Enterprise Deployment refers to the deployment of multiple client installations under the management of Winshuttle Central.

Complying with SAP Security Using Transaction

This white paper describes how the Winshuttle technology architecture enforces stringent, native SAP security requirements around enterprise data access. The paper is written for technical decision makers (TDMs) in an enterprise to assist in evaluating Winshuttle Transaction compatibility with security policies in the SAP environment.

Easing SOX Compliance

In companies that have implemented SAP, two of the most common open SOX audit issues are: 1) users in the IT departments have very broad access to production data in SAP, and 2) with access to SAP transactions such as SAP Query, QuickViewer, and Table Browser (SQ01/SQV1/SE16), SAP users become high data security risks. Therefore, companies are finding that they have to take many data access privileges away, severely limiting the ability of IT support staff and SAP users to assist in routine data maintenance activities. Thus, there is a pressing need at many companies for SAP users to be responsible for their own production data maintenance activities, while maintaining organizational level security.

Easy Alternative to LSMW

This white paper describes an easy, non-technical alternative to update customer master records in 3 steps instead of the 14 steps involved when using LSMW, without technical involvement or requiring developer-level access in SAP.

Easy Integration for Financial Data

This white paper describes how SAP® customers use Winshuttle® solutions to automate the shuttling of financial data between Microsoft Excel and SAP transactions. This paper is written for business decision makers (BDMs) in medium or large enterprises who want to know more about how Winshuttle software can improve business productivity and optimize business operations.

ERP Usability

Poor usability characteristics and unintuitive user interfaces of ERP systems decrease productivity and increase costs for businesses. This paper explores how ERP end user acceptance may be monitored, what metrics may be associated with ERP system usage, and how these metrics may be used as a basis for making informed decisions about enhancing, and thus accelerating, your ERP return on investment.

How SAP Users Hold the Key to BPI

This white paper highlights the key role that SAP users play in enabling their organizations to improve processes, and discusses how their expertise and experience is lost in some of the traditional approaches that companies use to try to improve processes. In addition, this paper presents an alternative “user-centric” approach that will enable companies to sustainably and measurably improve their processes

Mitigating Risk with Mass Data Change

This whitepaper is not meant to be prescriptive or exhaustive, but should provide some ideas about deployment and sustainment of mass change and mass data creation scenarios in the SAP environment.

SAP Plant Maintenance Challenges

This paper covers five common data management challenges faced by plant maintenance professionals and offers guidance on how to meet these challenges and maximize SAP Plant Maintenance effectiveness.

Technical Architecture for Automating SAP Processes using Forms and Workflow

Winshuttle offers a complete environment for building and deploying custom solutions that automate SAP business processes—from data collection to workflow routing and approval to transaction execution. This paper provides an overview of the technical architecture of the Winshuttle Platform.


The Quest for the Perfect Order: Optimizing SAP® for Order-to-Cash Processing

This paper discusses the requirements and benefits of the Perfect Order and examines how Winshuttle solutions can help SAP® customers optimize their O2C processing.

Transcending the Tactical: Strategic SAP® Solutions for Increased HR Productivity

This paper discusses the benefits of investing in strategic HR capabilities and demonstrates how Winshuttle’s solutions can effectively streamline SAP® HR functionality for optimal business use.

Winning with SAP-Integrated Workflow Solutions

Utilizing Business Developer Model to Increase Agility, Productivity and Value.

This report discusses the requirements for successful implementation of the business developer model and the advantages of creating comprehensive, SAP-based workflow solutions using Winshuttle tools.


Winshuttle and SSO

This whitepaper describes the ways Winshuttle applications implement SSO and offers guidance on how to most effectively use SSO when designing integrated SAP process transactions and workflows.

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We're pretty much seen as miracle workers at Sun Chemical now. I was able to successfully run more than 2.7 million master data transactions in 2009 alone. Had I been using LSMW, I know I couldn't have gotten close to that number.
Mark Watson, Global Master Data Management Analyst

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