Cygnet Systems Ltd

01/09/2025

🌟 Giving Back at Mweru Primary School, Murang’a 🌟

This past week, the Cygnet Systems Ltd team had the joy of supporting the amazing pupils and teachers of Mweru Primary School. We donated laptops, books, a projector, and a WiFi router to help enhance learning and open new opportunities through technology. 💻📚✨

We are deeply grateful to our directors Edwin Mwangi and Rachel Reriani for their leadership, and to our partners David Wachira and Joyceann Wamae for standing with us on this journey. Together, we’re bridging the digital divide and investing in the future of our children. 💙

12/06/2017

GL Wand for PeopleSoft
Easy self-service reporting and analysis for PeopleSoft Financials.

Getting data from PeopleSoft Financials is complex. Finance requires the flexibility and intuitive analysis of Excel. GL Wand for PeopleSoft removes the complexity and lets you build and analyze your reports directly in Excel, no coding or jargon required.

GL Wand is an add-in to Microsoft Excel that allows for flexible, real-time financial reporting on PeopleSoft General Ledger data. It provides an easy to use and easy to manage alternative to PS/nVision while significantly improving your ability to analyze financial reports. GL Wand for PeopleSoft runs directly on the application server leveraging your existing security and providing reports with drill-down capabilities that are refreshable on demand yet preserve formatting and Excel formulas. Without middleware or data warehouse requirements, you can install and widely deploy Excel4apps solutions in minutes - so there's less reliance on IT support and greater power given to the individual users.

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Easier, Smarter, Simpler Reporting for Finance

08/06/2017

Journal Wand for Oracle
Journal Wand is an add-in to Excel that allows for the batch uploads of journal entries into the Oracle E-Business Suite general ledger.

Loading journals into the Oracle general ledger can be a complicated and inefficient procedure. Getting it right can waste valuable time and resources, resulting in unnecessary frustration. Journal Wand is an intuitive, easy-to-use journal upload tool. Wizards make it easy for users to quickly create and edit custom templates, populate them with journal data, validate the data, and upload the journals into Oracle. This entire process is Excel-based even to the monitoring of Oracle Concurrent Requests run by the process.

Using Journal Wand makes loading batches of journal entries a quick and hassle-free process, and leaves more time for doing the things that count. Combined with GL Wand it provides a 360 degree Excel solution to the GL Month End process and an alternate journal loading tool to webADI for GL Journals.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/201288715

For Oracle E-Business Suite users, loading journals into the general ledger can be a complicated and inefficient procedure. Learn how customers are finding success…

06/06/2017

Budget Wand allows Excel to be used as the front end to the Oracle General Ledger Budgeting functionality. With Budget Wand, Oracle Financial users can meet their important financial budgeting and forecasting requirements, all from within Excel and with minimal effort and setup. Budget Wand is used for creating and editing models; distribution and collection of budget values and for validation and upload.

Budget models are Excel workbooks that typically contain a mixture of Actual and Budgets values, formulae and formatting as well as cells for entering new budget values. Actual and Budget values are reported using GL Wand’s Get Balance functions and Budget entry cells are linked by the Load Budget function. Budget Wand together with Excel enables flexible user defined layouts containing any combination of Actuals, Budgets, Periods and Books as required.

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Budget Wand 5 is our Excel-Based Budgeting Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite. Budget Wand allows Excel to be used as the front end to the Oracle General Ledger…

17/05/2017

Meet Reports Wand, our Excel-based ad hoc reporting tool is empowering end users with self-service reporting. See why Reports Wand is a viable alternative to Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer and a much less complex option than migrating to OBIEE. Friendly to end users, our solution installs in minutes without consultants or heavy IT resources and allows for greater flexibility and customization with reporting. This approach reduces errors, improves productivity, and creates an environment to easily provide the right information to the right people in the right format.

Comprehensive Reporting
Reports Wand reports are easy to create and flexible with fast refreshes and powerful drilldown options to make reporting and analysis simple and effective. Reports are fully customizable whether you are creating your own or leveraging 1000+ out-of-the-box report templates with our Reports Wand with NoetixViews offering (or through our connector if an existing NoetixViews customer).

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15/05/2017

GL Wand 5 is the fifth generation of an award-winning, Excel-based financial reporting solution for finance professionals using Oracle e-Business Suite 11i or 12. GL Wand enables highly efficient and secure financial reporting, shorter month ends, and faster refreshes with ad-hoc inquiry and drill downs.

Like all Excel4apps solutions, GL Wand leverages your existing Oracle security settings and provides reports with drill-down capabilities that are refreshable on demand, yet preserve formatting and Excel formula. Without middleware or data warehouse requirements, you can install and widely deploy Excel4apps solutions in minutes – so there’s less reliance on IT support and greater power given to the individual user.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/81432859

This is "GL Wand 5 Overview" by Excel4apps on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.