Overview
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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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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What is Winshuttle?
Winshuttle is a provider of enterprise applications for application data management and master data management, offering a broad vision for data management and governance that's needed to fuel business transformations that keep companies competitive.
Its tools, platforms and solutions reduce the friction of implementing data intensive, mission-critical processes in SAP by automating data movement tasks and critical workflows. The vendor says this helps to ensure business processes are orchestrated, repeatable and scalable.
Winshuttle Features
- Supported: Data Movement
- Supported: Workflow Applications
- Supported: Data Governance
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Winshuttle Competitors
- BlackLine
- Nintex Process Platform
- Z Option
- Innowera
- K2
Winshuttle Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
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Finance users at BBraun Medical, Inc have successfully utilized Winshuttle to eliminate the manual data entry tasks in SAP and automate repetitive processes. Users have commended the easy-to-use automation tools of Winshuttle that seamlessly connect Microsoft Office applications with SAP data. During their SAP implementation, Nissan North America achieved success by leveraging Winshuttle to migrate legacy data into the system.
Winshuttle has played a pivotal role in developing load sheets for internal end-user communities, enabling efficient processing of changes ranging from simple day-to-day mass modifications to large-scale implementations. Finance professionals rely on Winshuttle primarily for addressing the challenges associated with massive uploads into SAP, including instance documents, journal entries, and approval processes. Beyond finance, departments such as IT, Inbound, and Outbound have found Winshuttle valuable in resolving issues related to creating material master records, mass sales orders, and mass data corrections.
Users have found Winshuttle to be an indispensable tool for creating and updating master data, facilitating transaction data creation for testing purposes, and making timely mass updates. Rockwell Collins employees highly appreciate Winshuttle's ability to handle large volumes of data in SAP, notably with tasks such as importing warranty aircraft equipment updates and customer price files. The tool has also been effectively utilized by the Residential Group and IT Group for seamless onboarding of new properties into SAP.
Winshuttle proves to be a reliable solution for resolving complex business problems like uploading WBS elements into SAP while effectively handling massive amounts of data across different sectors such as accounting, maintenance, and human resources. It has been instrumental in optimizing various processes in SAP MM, SD, FI, PM, resulting in significant time savings and process improvements.
Organizations widely adopt Winshuttle to streamline data loading processes and enhance overall business efficiency. Users highly value its ability to effortlessly migrate a substantial amount of data from legacy systems into SAP. The stability of the product instills confidence in users, who rely on the runner application for their routine tasks. Winshuttle's user-friendly interface and scripting features enable different teams and departments to automate time-consuming tasks without requiring coding expertise, leading to improved service levels, enhanced data quality, and simplified audit and compliance processes. Ultimately, Winshuttle has proven to be an invaluable tool across various departments, delivering substantial time savings and process streamlining benefits.
Time-saving Advantage: Many users have praised Winshuttle for its significant time-saving advantages in various processes such as importing and exporting data, interacting with SAP screens, and executing mass data loads. By automating tasks that would otherwise be done manually, Winshuttle streamlines processes and allows users to complete them more efficiently.
User-Friendly Interface: The user-friendly interface of Winshuttle has been highly appreciated by reviewers. It allows easy interaction with SAP through Excel, making it easier for non-technical users to navigate and utilize the software effectively. This intuitive interface contributes to a smoother workflow and enhances the overall user experience.
Excellent Customer Support: Users have consistently commended the timely and helpful customer support provided by Winshuttle. Whether through community forums or direct support channels, reviewers have found quick resolutions to their issues. This responsive support system ensures that users can overcome any challenges they may encounter while using the software.
Confusing User Interface: Many users have found the user interface of Winshuttle to be confusing and difficult to navigate, making tasks challenging. The complex layout and lack of intuitive design have resulted in a steep learning curve for users.
Limited Compatibility and Functionality: Several users have mentioned limitations in terms of compatibility with different platforms and formats. They have suggested that Winshuttle should support formats other than spreadsheets and offer a wider range of transactions. Additionally, consistent support for all character formats in the Direct module is desired.
High Cost and Pricing Structure: Users expressed concerns about the high cost associated with owning a Transaction license for Winshuttle. The pricing structure has been perceived as unfavorable by some reviewers who feel that more flexible licensing options or lower pricing tiers should be made available.
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(1-3 of 3)Winshuttle, You have to test
- Easy to use
- User Friendly
- Automation
- Parallel excel jobs
- Debug
- Easy to use
- Automation
- Flexibility
- Debug option should be improved
- Red Hat Decision Manager (formerly JBoss BRMS), IBM Business Automation Workflow and SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse)
- Process Automation
- Flexibility
- Easy to use
- Process Automation
- Data Calculation to save working hours
- AI
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Implemented in-house
- Nothing
- easy to use
- flexibility
- nothing
Winshuttle makes an IT professionals work easier
- Mass data loads
- Repetitive Scripts we can give to the user base
- Ad Hoc Data pulls
- More functionality when it comes to looping, and advanced features. Their new product actually will provide some of this.
- Our licenses have paid for themselves over and over again.
- Mass Data Maintenance
- Moving Data between a Access Data base and SAP
- Day to Day processes like shipment creation
- Mass data move of a warehouse which would have taken weeks by hand
- QA data load for changing process which would have taken months by hand
- We haven't utilized their workflow options, but are exploring the opportunity.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Implemented in-house
- The Recording works great, and there are three different ways to do it.
- Editing is very easy to do along with mapping
- Without some basic training you can't maximize the benefits of the tool. Luckily Winshuttle offers the WUG conference where you can get some great startup training.
- The advanced features need to be learned during training, and Winshuttle does offer training for its customers.
A tool worth using for dataloads
- Easier loading the material master.
- Easier loading some transaction data like uploading stock, moving stocks between storage location, etc. in mass.
- Easy to create QM Master Data like MICs etc.
- Easy to use for standard BAPI's and FM's in SAP with Winshuttle Direct.
- Cannot be used for custom function modules. It would be great if this feature could be added.
- Winshuttle Query is a little more difficult to understand and use. It's easier to use standard SAP Query transactions.
- Winshuttle transaction freezes sometimes during running the dataload and automatically closes. This results in loss of tracking of the data that has been uploaded and data that needs to be uploaded. Need a fix.
- A better forum/blog to understand the needs.
- Not suited to create master data like routings, inspection plans, master recipe, maintenance routing, etc. as they can be created in more than one way. Difficult to load the data.
- Also difficult to load characteristics with more than 1 value.
- Improved data load time and help during plant roll-out projects
- Improved response time to business to fix master data / transaction data issues
- Reduced use of external consultant required to build LSMW's.
- LSMW, eCATT and eMIGALL
- Winshuttle is faster and also records all the output messages coming from SAP. This helps when the output data is required to input some other data. It's a cumbersome process to download the data in LSMW.
- The best feature of Winshuttle is using Excel spreadsheets to upload data. All the data can be manipulated easily in Excel and then through Winshuttle.
- LSMWs and eCATTs require SAP technical knowledge before performing the data loads.
- LSMWs require all the 14 steps to be completed before performing data load which is cumbersome and requires lot of time.
- Most of the time had to hire external consultants to build the LSMWs and eCATTs for data load. This resulted in higher costs as well as slow response time to user issues.
- Output from LSMWs are very difficult to reuse as compared to Winshuttle
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- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Time required to train user with new tool
- Cost of implementing the new tool
- Data format required by the tool for uploads
- Methods with which dataloads can be performed
- Support provided by the vendor
- Information about the tool available online like review, recommendations, etc.
- Time required for implementation of the new tool
- Training materials provided by the vendor for the new tool.
- Example where the new tool can be used and where it cannot be used
- Data mapping using Excel
- Loading any number of data from any sheet in Excel
- Recording transaction using Winshuttle transaction
- Saving the output and reusing it for other data loads
- Self explanatory design helps in easier use of the tool
- Does not require much of technical SAP knowledge for using the tool
- Winshuttle Query is more complex than SAP SQVI
- Cannot use Winshuttle Direct for custom function modules
- Winshuttle Direct is a little complex and more documentation needs to be provided in case of BAPI's
- Some transactions like C223 - Create production version are difficult to record and output message are not clear.
- Cumbersome to load routings, inspection plans and master recipe.
- Not much technical knowledge of SAP is required before loading the data.
- Data can be loaded for any sheet of an Excel spreadsheet
- Output messages from Winshuttle are very clear and can be used to as an input to other data loads that use these output data.