MerlinXL
The MerlinXL Report Wizard is a revolutionary way of delivering Excel spreadsheets to client PC’s over the Internet.
MerlinXL technology merges Excel with the Internet to create a new type of reporting for Oracle HFM that aims to maximise the analysis and minimise the maintenance.
The MerlinXL product suite consists of two products - Report Wizard and Data Wizard.
Report Wizard
The MerlinXL Report Wizard is a complementary product to Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). It is an Excel addin that will enhance and further develop the reporting functionality of any Oracle HFM implementation.
The Report Wizard combines the functionality and ease of use of Excel with the distribution capabilities of web reporting.
It can deliver significant benefits if you are:
- Looking to improve on your current level of reporting and analysis in Excel
- Looking for a way to effectively manage the maintenance of your Excel reports
- Struggling to centralise and control Excel reporting across your organisation
- Looking to improve your intercompany matching process
- Looking to review journals in Excel
Data Wizard
MerlinXL Data Wizard is an Excel-based utility designed to capture and submit data to Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM).
Unlike conventional Excel solutions, the Data Wizard does not use SmartView or mapping tables but instead applies a unique process to examine each data entry sheet and determine the data that needs to be extracted to Oracle HFM.
Data Wizard benefits include:
- No SmartView formulae
- Direct data load, calculate and promote from Excel
- No need to distribute via email
- Extensive validations to ensure only valid data is loaded
- Load as data or as a journal
- Audit trail of submitted data
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The Report Wizard has become an integral tool to all reporting processes out of HFM, offering standardised reports across the group, drill-down functionality enabling rapid ad hoc analysis, plus the user-friendly intercompany reports.
The overall result is that controllers are able to spend more time driving action in response to reports, than reporting itself.