Which is worse: being stranded in the desert or lost in the forest? Often, that’s the choice CFOs face when they navigate the road to finance transformation. Invest too little in technology and you’re stranded — unable to reach the level of operational efficiency necessary to develop more sophisticated capabilities. But investing in too many complex solutions can overwhelm your department and leave you at the mercy of constrained IT budgets and expensive consultants.

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The Clear Path to Finance Transformation
Automating Core Financial Processes to Achieve High Performance
Clinton Jones
Director of Solution
Management for Finance
Winshuttle
Which is worse: being stranded in the desert or
lost in the forest? Often, that’s the choice CFOs
face when they navigate the road to finance transforma-
tion. Invest too little in technology and you’re stranded
— unable to reach the level of operational efficiency
necessary to develop more sophisticated capabilities.
But investing in too many complex solutions can over-
whelm your department and leave you at the mercy of
constrained IT budgets and expensive consultants.
To find the clear path to finance transformation,the key
is investing in technology that gives your team the flexibil-
ity to target the specific processes and functions that are
the most time-consuming or error-prone and the capabil-
ity to automate those processes with adaptable solutions
that are easy to build, deploy, and control (see Figure 1).
The Winshuttle Approach
Winshuttle for SAP finance puts customers on a
clear path to finance transformation through flexible
automation of core processes such as journal entries,
asset accounting, and financial master records. Chang-
ing business requirements and regulations mean that
operational finance cannot be optimized once and then
ignored. Winshuttle enables continuous improvement
without heavyweight add-ons or complex programming.
Winshuttle securely integrates Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft SharePoint, and SAP systems, creating an
application environment that allows you to automate
mass data operations, workflow processes, and other
ERP operations. Winshuttle’s no-programming design
environment allows analysts and accountants to safely
develop solutions to automate the processes they work
with every day.
Winshuttle for SAP finance offers:
■■ Managed Excel: Excel is still the workhorse of finan-
cial operations. Winshuttle solutions use centrally
managed Excel templates to enhance native SAP func-
tionality while maintaining existing SAP permissions.
■■ Integrated workflow: Comprehensive process auto-
mation means connecting all the parts and people
involved in a particular transaction. Winshuttle
workflow lets you model the entire process, collect-
ing data and mandating approvals before executing
the final SAP transactions.
■■ Rapid time to value: The no-code development
environment lets analysts and accountants design
and implement their own solutions for SAP systems
within a secure framework established and main-
tained by your IT department.
Find out more about how Winshuttle can put
you on a clear path to finance transformation at
www.winshuttle.com/SAPFinancials.
FIGURE 1 q The clear
path to finance
transformation
To find the clear path to finance
transformation, the key is investing in
technology that gives your team the flex-
ibility to target the specific processes and
functions that are the most time-consuming
or error-prone and the capacity to automate
those processes with adaptable solutions.