{"id":11995,"date":"2009-03-17T11:19:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/sap-dashboards-at-microsoft.html"},"modified":"2009-03-17T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:19:50","slug":"sap-dashboards-at-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/sap-dashboards-at-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"SAP Dashboards at Microsoft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasuryandrisk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Treasury &amp; Risk<\/a> site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasuryandrisk.com\/Issues\/2009\/March%202009\/Pages\/Revving-Up-Dashboards.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft is a keen user of SAP dashboards<\/a>, at least in conjunction with their treasury needs:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Ed Barrie\u2019s first daily task as group manager of treasury at Microsoft is opening up his treasury workstation from SAP and taking the pulse of its financial health. \u201cThe dashboard is great for horizontal processes like general ledger, accounts payable and managing our cash positions,\u201d Barrie enthuses from the tech giant\u2019s Redmond, Wash.-based headquarters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article explains that dashboards are an increasingly important part of \u201ctreasury management systems\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Today\u2019s dashboards are packed with cool graphs and charts in a rainbow of colors providing drill-down insight into an array of financial transactions, investments, the weighted average cost of debt, foreign exchange deals and the mark to market on them, among other data. A topnotch TMS dashboard will broadcast the daily status of treasury operations, items pending and what needs to be executed that day. Most provide a total view of cash globally, broken down regionally and summed up. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But many treasures are still having to extract and manipulate excel spreadsheets, because most of today\u2019s dashboards don\u2019t meet their needs, particularly in the area of customization. Which means that SAP\u2019s work to better integrate best-in-class dashboarding such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/solutions\/sapbusinessobjects\/sme\/xcelsius\/index.epx\" target=\"_blank\">Xcelsius<\/a> into its functional applications should be well received \u2013 by treasurers from Microsoft and around the world\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Treasury &#038; Risk site, Microsoft is a keen user of SAP dashboards, at least in conjunction with their treasury needs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[320,737,911,1151],"class_list":["post-11995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dashboard","tag-microsoft","tag-sap","tag-xcelsius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-37t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}