Product Details

Spreadsheet Workbench is a powerful yet easy to use spreadsheet management solution that allows you to quickly establish control of your business critical spreadsheets.

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Key features include:

Full Security and Access Control

Spreadsheet Workbench provides enterprise level security and access control over your business critical spreadsheets. Whether the user is a manager requiring review and authorisation permissions, a data entry user or an advanced spreadsheet developer, the right level of security and access control can be quickly established and maintained through a single sign-on.

Complete Version History

A full version history is maintained across all business critical spreadsheets including comprehensive information on users, time and date of creation. Powerful roll back capabilities allow previous versions to be re-instated plus full spreadsheet narrative and documentation facilities are provided.

Comprehensive Audit Facilities

Spreadsheet Workbench provides comprehensive audit facilities. All spreadsheet changes are recorded and can be reported and enquired upon.

Powerful Spreadsheet Analytics

Spreadsheet Workbench provides the most powerful set of spreadsheet analytics available. Through a user defined set of selection criteria you can investigate a wide range of errors, conditions and changes that have occurred across the whole population of business critical spreadsheets. Drill down capabilities allow users to investigate issues from summary level right through to individual cell level problems.

Advanced Business Logic

Spreadsheet management is not just about finding Excel errors. Business logic checking is also as important. The ability to flag important business logic errors quickly and in a meaningful way can ensure that potentially costly business problems can be addressed quickly and often before they turn into major problems.

Spreadsheet Development

Through its compliance with COBIT standards, Spreadsheet Workbench allows you to establish proper and robust controls around the development of new business critical spreadsheet applications. Whether this is addressing the best practice of segregation of duties, or ensuring that spreadsheets are properly tested before being put into production, Spreadsheet Workbench greatly assists with both with the remediation of existing spreadsheets plus the development of new more robust and supportable applications.

Example applications:
Spreadsheet legacy
Oversight, change tracking, access and version control of the existing spreadsheet population.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Basel II and MiFID
Requirements from Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, MiFID and other legislation can be addressed through the deployment of Spreadsheet Workbench.

New product processing and accounting
Reduce time to market for new or complex products in a controlled environment. Ability to scale to high volumes without reducing flexibility.

Budgeting, planning and financial consolidation
Financial consolidation and planning tailored to the specific needs of the business, with a familiar spreadsheet user interface.

Reconciliations
Control, automate and monitor spreadsheet based reconciliations.