By Design, a pure cloud ERP from SAP first came to market in 2007 enjoying considerable success, with its straight forward implementation appealing particularly to the less complicated end of the SME space – garnering it a large and varied install base. One of the first cloud ERPs to embrace the OData data access standard, data extraction is indeed possible, if a little tricky, for third party, or home grown reporting solutions.
But times change and with Business By Design rather superseded by SAP S/4 Hana in early 2015, the platform now exists in a kind of no-mans land: still supported, occasionally sold, but without significant new functionality being brought to market and receiving little love, even from third party vendors, despite the great many customers still using it.
With the release of FastClose 3.2, FastClose adds support for SAP Business By Design focussing in the first instance on reporting over the GL, AR and AP ledgers with further support for Planning over the GL. Dive into the detail, or consolidate to see the big picture, the choice is yours, with drilling to and from the GL to AR and AP to see where those numbers came from. Navigate the numbers in a way that has never been possible with the native tools.
With FastClose’ easy to use interface, reporting challenges such as adding a new column to a report, analysing by day, week or month, pivotting data or adding calculated items become easy. Why learn OData or the relationships between SAP Business By Design business entities, when FastClose has already done it for you. You can even get planning against your SAP Business By Design actuals in minutes using FastClose planning system, reporting actuals against planned outcomes at whatever level of detail you need to effortlessly find your variance to plan.
Nor is FastClose limited to simple navigations such as drilling from a consolidated P&L number to see the detailed GL transactions beneath. It can go much further using something we call “drill anywhere” which makes it possible to surf the live numbers from subsystem to subsystem.
Want to squeeze more out of your SAP Business By Design data? Talk to FastClose. And if you have a need to report over an area of By Design that we don’t yet cover – come talk to us and we will build out what’s needed, for free.
FastClose your one-stop reporting and planning solution for SAP By Design.
Many SAP Business By Design customers never make use of this amazing data asset because they lack the SAP Business By Design reporting tools, such as FastClose, to harness it.
FastClose are delighted to be a part of the SAP® PartnerEdge® Open Ecosystem: Build program.
Pull data and lay it out as you wish, style to get the right look and feel. Create new insight through the use of calculations, hierarchies and other power features. Organize data for planning activities. Publish for use in Excel or by Web users.
Find out more about the power reporting features in Designer.
Excel is an essential tool for the management and finance teams. With the FastClose Excel add-in, they can work with any number of pre-built FastClose reports, changing filters to deliver up to the minute data in real-time that can be used to build “What-If” models, or other reports, on the data retrieved. Find out more.
The FastClose Excel add-in is also the primary way that planning users submit their numbers.
With the Web based Read & Drill product, reporting users can consume selected reports whilst amending filters such as Month or Department to get the view they need. With drill down to detail or across to related subledgers, available on your laptop, tablet or smart phone Find out more.
FastClose takes the pain out of delivering PowerBI dashboards and other content. Leveraging it’s skill at extracting, enriching and delivering data – FastClose can also be integrated as a datasource to PowerBI with ease.
Find out more about how FastClose takes the pain out of Power BI delivery.
Enables budget holders to submit budget data from within Excel, using all the formulas & modelling power which that offers and then report through FastClose blending those numbers with live actuals – no data replication required.
Find out more about Planning and Budgeting with FastClose.
With installation and configuration possible in as little as 40 minutes, contact us and we will connect you with one of our implementation partners (if one exists for your area), or get you up and running ourselves.
To arrange installation and connection to your SAP Business By Design instances
FastClose can be installed and connected to your SAP Business By Design instances, complete with out-of-the-box content in around 1 hour.
Users immediately benefit from out-of-the-box content in the "Read & Drill" and Excel Addin products.
There will inevitably be reporting needs that are specific to the way you do business. Whilst creating your own FastClose reports isn't hard, we recognise that smaller teams often don't have the time to spend on a new tool.
With "FastCose Designer" your SAP implementation partner can build out and deploy new reporting content to your requirements rapidly. And if your team subsequently have a bit more time they too can discover the flexibility and power of "FastClose Designer" for themselves.
Ochiba
For over a decade Ochiba Business Solutions have been creating innovative, industry-specific solutions for our customers with the world’s leading ERP solution, SAP Business One. SAP Business One is affordable, intuitive, adaptable and easy-to-use business management software, designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. It enables you to manage all your business functions with a single integrated system.
Our Ochiba OPTIONS range of modules enhances SAP Business One to address the unique requirements of the industries we serve.
As a leading UK SAP Gold Partner, we have the knowledge, expertise and solutions to maximise your investment in SAP Business One.
Advisional
Web: advisional.com
The Advisional mission is to empower businesses with innovative solutions that drive growth and efficiency. We are dedicated to providing tailored consulting services that meet the unique needs of each client
Advisional offers a wide range of business and management consulting services, including strategic planning, financial analysis, process improvements, and more. Our team of experts has the knowledge and experience to help you achieve your goals.