New Partnership to Benefit Australian SAP Users

Date: 1 Mar 2010

Extend Technologies, an SAP Gold Channel Partner, announced today that it has signed a Premier Partner agreement with Winshuttle, the leading provider of Excel-based business process improvement solutions for SAP® users, to resell its products as part of Extend Technologies' total solution offering.

Winshuttle provides easy-to-use tools that enable business users to work with SAP directly from Excel, without programming. Winshuttle's suite of solutions enable both business and IT users to solve any SAP data or business process challenge by securely expanding SAP interactions to both employees and partners. By providing a familiar spreadsheet interface to the SAP system, customers report increased productivity and significant time and money savings.

"Winshuttle is a world leader in SAP data loading and extraction solutions and they complement our customer offering very well. As most business users are already very comfortable working within Excel, the ability to shuttle data between Excel and SAP improves productivity and saves a significant amount of time and money," says Kristian Kalsing who heads up the Microsoft Solutions Group at Extend Technologies.

"Extend Technologies has deep SAP market knowledge and expertise, in addition to its proven commitment and reputation in the region," says Rajat Oberoi, Winshuttle's chief business development officer and co-founder. "We look forward to working with Extend to help deliver cost-effective business process improvement solutions to their SAP customers.

The ease-of-use of Winshuttle's product suite empowers business users and functional consultants to build and run data scripts as required. "We often see that data is not being kept up to date in the core system because it's just too costly. Winshuttle's transactionSHUTTLE tool reduces the amount of time typically required for mass data maintenance. And most importantly, Winshuttle is a non-technical solution, so users can apply it directly without involving technical staff," says Kalsing.

Winshuttle also preserves SAP security. Tested by SAP, all of Winshuttle's products have received the ‘SAP Certified Integration - Powered by SAP NetWeaver' certifications. "Winshuttle's products reflect what users are already authorised to do and therefore do not compromise end user security. For any customer who wants to serve business users better and use Microsoft Excel as a front-end to SAP, then the Winshuttle product suite is a low risk option," says Kalsing.

End users will also benefit financially from being able to automate any business process that involves large amounts of data, such as structural changes, seasonal data maintenance or data integration from mergers and acquisitions. "This partnership presents a huge potential for our customers to realise cost savings around data maintenance. For example, mergers and acquisitions create a big overhead for any business. Bringing two organisations together involves integrating and updating data, merging data and/or migrating data from one system to another, - all of which creates an enormous amount of manual data entry tasks. transactionSHUTTLE helps automate this process," says Kalsing.

"Moreover, having transactionSHUTTLE in our kitbag, will help us reduce time to value when implementing SAP projects - delivering further benefits to our customers, sooner."