Item: BizNet Software
Rating: 10
Author: Kevin Mulhearn

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is a very powerful report writing software that functions in Excel. We use it for all of our financial report creation. The software is very flexible and saves us a lot of time in developing analyses. We have also looked at the use of BizInsight for general report writing. It seems very flexible and powerful as well but [we] have yet to develop business applications for it.

Pros and Cons

Financial Report Writing
Report Generation and Electronic Distribution of Reports
Financial Analytics

Report Writing can be time consuming with big files and multiple reports
Greater flexibility in saving standard pivot queries

Return on Investment

Positive - Less time for financial reporting
Positive - Greater flexibility

Alternatives Considered

FRX - Great Plains Report Writer - These do produce financial reports but are much more tedious to set up.

BizNet is much more flexible and easier to use. The functionality is an Excel add-on which allows us to use the powerful functionality of Excel as well as Biznet's functionality to do data retrieval from Sage 100 general ledger.

Other Software Used

Sage 50 Accounting

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Sage100 as our general ledger package. We implemented BizNet to replace FRX for our financial report writing. The flexibility and ease of use have been unbelievable. Strongest feature is that it is an Excel based add-on that gives you all the power of Excel along with the data retrieval capabilities.

Was working on a project recently with Great Plains Financial Report Writer and found it to be very time consuming and tedious to create financial reports as compared to Biznet.

Great financial report writer

Overall Satisfaction with BizNet Excel Suite