What is the ReportExcelerator?

Microsoft Excel is the world's most popular ad-hoc and process reporting solution. The Report Excelerator is a scheduling engine that can automate the updating, printing, archiving and email delivery of Microsoft Excel reports.

If any of these comments sound familiar to you, you should take a closer look at the ReportExcelerator!

"The information needs to be consistent, we want one version of the truth."

"We want information delivered automatically, currently nothing happens unless someone goes looking for it."

"Our business analysts like their spreadsheets, but they all have their own versions."

"We need to get the data to our users on the Web, managing lots of client software is expensive and time consuming."

What's the problem with Microsoft Excel?

People who use Excel evolve their own special spreadsheets. This is fine for performing their own "what-if" scenarios, that's one of the key benefits of Excel as users develop there own analytic reports without having to rely on IT.  Excel has the power to perform calculations and gather data from virtually any source. e.g. ODBC data, Real time data via addins, web data, or text files. With Excel everyone is empowered with their own report writing and analysis capability.

The problem with this scenario is:

• Often no one is looking at the same information. Everyone has their own version of the truth. Wouldn't it be better if the correct version of the report was centrally managed and controlled.

• It takes some effort to locate the correct report, wouldn't it be better if the report was automatically delivered to you in the when you wanted.

• Reports get reinvented. Within a typical process organization many hundreds of hours get spent reinventing reports that already exist somewhere else.

• Not everybody has Excel or the expensive data addins required to generate the specific Excel report. Wouldn't it be better if the report was automatically delivered in the format that suited you best. e.g. on the web or via email.

The ReportExcelerator solves these key problems for companies who use Excel as a reporting tool. And unlike the steep learning curve associated with investing another proprietary reporting product your users will already know how to use Excel. You still create your reports in Excel, but they become centrally managed and deployed for the benefit of everyone. Stop your organization wasting time reinventing reports, looking for data, installing unnecessary software and training on proprietary products, choose the ReportExcelerator.

Why Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft Excel is the preferred analysis tool for millions of engineers, business analysts and manager. It is a tool that is easy to use and provides powerful calculation and modeling features. Excel is a tool people are comfortable with and its a tool people can trust. Microsoft Excel provides:

• The ability to format data with the standard set of Microsoft tools.

• Powerful graphing and visualization tools.

• Built-in HTML support for web publishing.

• 100's of different calculation functions.

• An easy to use graphical environment.

• Native data input tools for text files, ODBC data sources and the web.

• 100's of Add-ins for specialist data analysis, e.g. solving, Real Time data, statistical functions

• OLAP analysis tools.

Excel's ability to gather, analyze, manipulate and present information is almost limitless.

Functional summary

The Bravure Excelerator is a scheduling engine that can automate the updating, distribution and printing of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Once the spreadsheet files has been updated the file can also be optionally saved as spreadsheet values (without formulas) and emailed to a group of target recipients or published to the web. The ReportExcelerator provides a powerful reporting solution by:

• Running Excel reports automatically in the background based on schedule, or interactively from the ReportExcelerator.

• Leveraging Excel's powerful calculations, formatting and graphing capabilities to create a report.

• Leveraging native Excel support to access data from the web, text files and databases.

• Loading in all selected data "add-ins" to source data.

• Loading in all selected data "add-ins" to perform additional calculations.

• Updating the report with the latest data from databases, the web, text file or Real time data sources.

• Optionally: Printing the report to any network printer.

• Optionally: Emailing the report as values to any email recipient.

• Optionally: Utilizing Excel's built-in HTML support for web publishing.

• Optionally: Archiving reports automatically onto a network drive.

The ReportExcelerator makes it easy to meet reporting requirements both now and in the future. It ensures high information availability and accuracy for users of information both inside and outside the organization.

Design

Utilize Microsoft Excel and any number of data add-ins to create your reports

Schedule

Use virtually any date or recurring date and time combination to schedule your report.

Deliver

Deploy your certified report to any email, printer, network drive or web server.