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Most Helpful Reviews for Spreadsheet Server
1 - 5 of 65 Reviews
Jennifer
Verified reviewer
Real Estate, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2024
Flexible and Time Saving
Real time data and being able to customize easily in excel.
CONSPulling in data for large files can take a while if there are a lot of formulas and if you have the automatic calculation turned on, it will refresh even if you didn't want it to.
James
Wholesale, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2024
Self Service Reporting
We have been very happy with Spreadsheet Server and have completely replaced Financial Reporting Studio. The speed with which we can issue reports, modify financials, or create new reports/analysis has greatly improved by using Spreadsheet Server.
PROSSpreadsheet server gives the control of report writing to accountants all within native Excel that we are all familiar with. Implementation was simple and quick and involved very little IT support. The tool is simple to use and only required a few hours of training to get everyone started on building their own reports.
CONSWith Oracle Cloud our Oracle tables have to be replicated to a separate server. This means reporting isn't real time (but it is close).
Reasons for switching to Spreadsheet Server
It was slow, difficult to use, and building reports was not intuitive.
Ray
Retail, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2017
We use this product as a replacement for Oracle FSG reports for departmental and location reporting.
Reporting times dropped from 3 to 4 days to overnight.
PROSThe product offers great flexibility, looks at the live data and all hierarchies. Distribution Manager and Profile Scheduler really enhance the reporting functionality.
CONSPerformance is slow particularly for transaction based reports. Updating to the very latest software was of great help but we had to move the transactions to a table for quicker queries. This allowed reports to be able to complete overnight (around 8 hours) but we are limited to only a periods worth of data at a time for transaction based reports. The translated ledgers are not currently working but consolidation ledger are so not a top priority but something to fix in the future.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your thoughtful response, Ray. We¿re happy to hear that you are experiencing success with your reporting times. We have an even more recent update for you, Spreadsheet Server 14.6.4, which includes more enhancements. Contact us at customersuccess@globalsoftwareinc.com to upgrade today!
Replied August 2017
MERIT
Wholesale, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2024
Spreadsheet Server Saves Time and is Easy to use.
Spreadsheet server is easy to use and refreshes my data immediately. I love all the options I have, I can access any GL data I choose. I'm able to build all of my financial statements, budgets, and financial ratios in one file and it updates effortlessly from period to period.
PROSI spend less time mining data and more time analyzing the data. I use this for financial reporting and budgeting and any scenario I can think of or want to analyze, I'm able to build it into my spreadsheet and have it update the data based on the period I want to analyze.
CONSMy only drawback is occassionally Spreadsheet Server loses a connection to my data and I have to contact support for a reboot. Which isn't inconvenient during the week, but support is not able to assist me on the weekends.
Reason for choosing Spreadsheet Server
Someone from my Vistage Group saw how cumbersome it was to prepare different types of financial reports and recommended we look into Spreadsheet server. It was the only product we considered and we loved the demo. Ease of use sold us on the product.
Reasons for switching to Spreadsheet Server
Spreadsheet server has more features, is easier to use, and came at a lower cost.
Tim
Telecommunications, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2024
Powerful Reporting and Analytics Tool
The ease in which I can create reports and do on the fly analysis.
CONSThere isn't much. The only drawback is change control. Since it is an add-in to Excel, anyone can go in and change a report. Also, you have to touch every report if a change is made. This is definitely a minor drawback, as there are ways to implement controls.
Reasons for switching to Spreadsheet Server
It is so much easier to make changes to reporting. With Hyperion, you almost need developers to make updates.