The ability to easily and securely extract data in real-time from your transactional SAP system is critical for many business applications, including one-time use data extracts, operational business intelligence (BI) reports, or prototyping a steady-state BI report.
Even with highly capable BI systems installed and operational at most companies, one of the top challenges reported by SAP end-users is the inability to easily download real-time SAP data in the transactional system. Enabling end-users to easily and securely query and then extract transactional SAP data is critical for many purposes beyond BI for corporate performance measurement, including:
If an existing BI report does not meet your data download requirements, the next best option is to access the transactional system data via the various SAP-provided tools such as the table browser (SE16/SE16N/SE17), or the SAP Query (SQ01 or SQVI) tool. While these tools can be quite effective, and preserve table-level security, they are not easy-to-use and they do not respect organization-level security. Due to these security issues around organization-level controls, access to these tools is denied for most business users. Moreover, query results and reports built using these tools are not easy to deploy on an organization-wide basis and exporting these results to external files, such as Excel or Access can involve extra manual processing steps.
To try and overcome some of these challenges Winshuttle has developed an easy and secure ad hoc SAP Data extraction tool, querySHUTTLE, that lets business users and technical users download live SAP data into Excel, Access, and other common formats for immediate analysis and action.
"With Winshuttle, you can import massive amounts of data directly from a spreadsheet, which is a format that employees know and understand. It's changed how we approach all kinds of SAP data” from mass changes to periodic data cleansing."
- Lynn Farrell, SAP HR and Payroll Manager, Southwark Council
"We're a victim of our own success. I'm adding another member to our team because of the sheer volume of data we're handling with transactionSHUTTLE. This solution has completely changed how we approach and manage many of our projects."
- Peter Hebert, manager of HR data management, RBC
"transactionSHUTTLE gives us the ability to do things we weren't able to do before. We have significantly reduced our manual data entry costs, reduced headcount, and minimized the burden on IT."
- Paul Cahill, Director of Information Technology, Hubbell Wiring Systems
"We have saved over $1 Million in avoided programming, reduced data entry workload costs and Service Level Agreement (SLA) costs."
- Chantal Gauvreau, Business Process Manager, SAP Center of Excellence, Canada Post
"Winshuttle offers the complete automation solution. It's easy-to-install, well-documented desktop software, with excellent technical support"
- Erin Stone, SAP FI/CO Senior Analyst, B. Braun
"Data entry is no longer an IT headache. Our users no longer blame our SAP system and instead fully embrace it."
- Rick Davis, Manager, Enterprise Systems
We now use the term "Winshuttling" to refer to any solution that makes our lives easier.
- Steve Walker, Manager of Supply Chain Systems, Under Armour