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Winshuttle

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63 Reviews and Ratings

What is Winshuttle?

Winshuttle is an SAP-focused data management and robotic process automation platform. It is designed to enable the building and adaptation of Excel and SharePoint-based interactive forms and workflows for SAP without programming.

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Winshuttle Studio users can develop scripts and update records in SAP in 3 simple steps - Record, Map and Run.

WinshuttleEvolve is amazing MDM Data Governance Solution that fits every business model and needs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our enterprise level company, Winshuttle

was serving as central Master Data Management and Data Governance application.

Winshuttle is exposed to around 5000 – 6000 employees and to more than 200

external contractors and is enabled across the 29 countries we operate in. Here

are few of the most frequent and useful utilizations of Winshuttle:

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As Master data management and governance

application for BP Customer, BP Vendor, Material/Product and Finance data

domains

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It has complex ticketing workflows with country specifics

and exceptions, many rule based validations and derivations

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Ticketing system for processing master data by

all 29 countries

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It is integrated with Microsoft Dynamics365, SAP

CRM, S/4 HANA and PowerBI systems

Pros

  • Supports very complex and challenging derivations
  • Allows parallel and rule-based workflows
  • It is extremely easy to be configured and maintained
  • Very easy to be customized and adapt to our company-specific processes and needs
  • Very intuitive UI and navigation

Cons

  • User access and Licence management is manual and would be better to be managed by other system via integration
  • Winshuttle SQL database has room to be improved and is using very old MS SQL version
  • Winshuttle Form loading time is slow when used by many users at ones
  • Tickets history logs are not convenient and intuitive

Return on Investment

  • Winshuttle improved the E2E Material data creation time from 40 days to around 8 days
  • Winshuttle enabled improving the BP Customer creation time SLA to 1 day
  • Winshuttle served as global MDM system and replaced various country specific applications

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP NetWeaver BPM, Informatica MDM & 360 Applications and SAP Master Data Governance

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Dynamics 365

A fine tool for SAP batch input operations

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Wnshuttle for SAP Process Automation in different Departments including Finance, Logistics, Customer care among others. We use it for bstch input operations. It helps also with data quality control and avoids the development of customized Z Programs to keep using the standard SAP Transactions which ultimately eases SAP system upgrades.

Pros

  • Batch input operations
  • Generates a detailed report of the records updated
  • Robot Process Automation

Cons

  • Limited functionality for some SAP transactions involving data grids.
  • Works only for SAP Gui Client, not for SAP web UI like SAP CRM.
  • Could offer concurrent licenses

Most Important Features

  • Batch input operations
  • Query tools for reporting
  • Attended Robot Process Automation

Return on Investment

  • FTE improvements
  • Data Quality improvements
  • Timely operations

Alternatives Considered

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform

Other Software Used

UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform

Winshuttle, You have to test

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The user interface which means GUI is too easy to use. Many user-friendly scripting features reduce the need to write complex scripts. Editing the script is also very easy and too simple like a piece of cake. And we use it for SAP Finance automation. Winshuttle application feasibility with other applications is too good.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • User Friendly
  • Automation

Cons

  • Parallel excel jobs
  • Debug

Most Important Features

  • Easy to use
  • Automation
  • Flexibility

Return on Investment

  • Debug option should be improved

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Decision Manager (formerly JBoss BRMS), IBM Business Automation Workflow and SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse)

Other Software Used

Red Hat Decision Manager (formerly JBoss BRMS), IBM Business Automation Workflow, SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse)

Usability

WinShuttle Love

Pros

  • User friendly for non-IT to use.
  • Log all positive and negative messages within a load.
  • Saves a lot of time when creating and updating data in SAP.

Cons

  • Cannot use Excel when WinShuttle is in use.

Return on Investment

  • The ROI that WinShuttle has is great - you save a lot of time and money when you are using WinShuttle.

What we "WIN" with Winshuttle Studio for Salesforce

Pros

  • Reshuffling of assets depending on the business situation. Winshuttle enables an easy query, overwriting and push back of data into the live system.
  • Clear message when the upload has failed.
  • Transparent KPI reports and dashboards.

Cons

  • Searching for duplicates in the live system - missing functionality.
  • Performing updates on more than 2 layers on the system.
  • Condition builder limitation of characters.
  • TXT format pulled to the condition builder instead of Excel.

Return on Investment

  • I have no insight in the business impact of using the tool.