Finance can now embed and refresh data in Excel, PowerPoint and Word with the push of a button
“Prepping data for presentations and reporting is an unavoidable and arduous task for finance teams. Often times the information needed is rendered in Microsoft Office, making it time consuming and difficult to manage,” said Sanjay Vyas, Chief Product Officer, Host Analytics. “Spotlight for Office is designed to make this kind of process a delight for our users, by enabling them to embed the data once, apply the rich formatting within Office and then giving them the ability to quickly refresh with the correct, up-to-the-minute information.”
With Spotlight for Office, customers can harness the power of Microsoft Office for presenting information while ensuring “one version of the truth” from a centralized, secure data store. Presentations and documents can be built once with live links to the data and used as often as needed, saving valuable time and eliminating errors caused by manual cutting and pasting. Once a report is created in Excel, PowerPoint or Word it can be accessed anywhere and delivers data security, integrity, and confidence in the data by relying on the Host Analytics platform as its foundation. With the push of a button, data can be dynamically refreshed; ensuring it is always accurate and up to date.
In addition to delivering management and financial reporting from Word and PowerPoint, Host Analytics customers can now build and analyze Spotlight XL and Spotlight Web reports directly from the Host Planning Finance cube, reducing the time and effort required to build and analyze financial reports in Spotlight.
Spotlight for Office will be generally available on July 20, 2018. Learn more about Spotlight for Office.
About Planful
Planful is the pioneer of end-to-end financial close, consolidation, and financial planning & analysis (FP&A) cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. More than 1000 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.