How to send this to everyone in one easy step
December 15, 2016
How to send this to everyone in one easy step
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with BizNet Excel Suite
I use Biznet excel suite to send reports to all departments in the county government. It does require a good working knowledge of the excel program to even begin to use it appropriately. It has made my job of sending reports out much easier. I would suggest it to anyone that has a good working knowledge of Excel and also uses Sage.
- After I learned how to make some checks I am very confident in the accuracy of any reports I send out.
- The ability to send out reports to several different departments/people is wonderful.
- Excel is something most people understand some, but the better they deal with excel the better they deal with BizNet.
- It has some inadequacies when you are pulling from Sage into BizNet and want to save that report as an Excel file. The formulas carry into the saved file unless you do a save as.
- I had a lot of trouble when I dealt with a report that had several spreadsheets in it and somehow one copied a ton of blank lines. BizNet became very slow. That was a hard error to find.
- I know it has saved me time, and believe the treasurer's department would say the same.
Each of these have their positive and negative points. The point I like best about BizNet is the capability of sending out reports to several at once. I did like the Crystal Reports that I could build and still do some reports there, but BizNet is almost as robust and has the sharing capabilities. Frx was one that I would suggest needs lots of improvements. I used it because it was all that was available to me at the time.
Using BizNet Excel Suite
5 - There are only five on the creating end. Many on the receiving end.
- Monthly reports.
- Budget building and revision.
- Special reports.
- Better use in the budget building process.
Evaluating BizNet Excel Suite and Competitors
- Price
- Product Features
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Would not change [my evaluation and selection process].
BizNet Excel Suite Implementation
- Professional services company
Steward consulting
Change management was minimal
- We had to get the program configured right to match up with our servers.
BizNet Excel Suite Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Problems get solved No escalation required Immediate help available Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | Not kept informed |
Yes - yes
I had spent many hours writing a report that I wanted to use to send out reports to my departments. The report worked fine until I decided to send it out to the several departments. I then found that biz broadcast was caught spending a lot of time trying to send those reports. I though it had found an loop that it was stuck in. The tech support was able to pair the report down and assure me that it was not caught in a loop. I then through trial and error did find that for some unknown reason the program was trying to send out not only the report I was seeing but also a very large number of blank lines. After fixing those by copying and pasting I was rewarded with a smooth and timely reporting process.
Using BizNet Excel Suite
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Technical support not required Well integrated Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using | Lots to learn |
- Many of the functions are easy to use, but not so easy to figure out what they are actually going to do.
- The cumbersome part is the trial and error of finding what the functions actually do.