Case Study: Kleinwort Hambros achieves faster report-building and delivers more business value with insightsoftware’s GL Wand

Financial Services Company Focusing on the Bigger Picture Thanks to GL Wand

Kleinwort Hambros, a UK private bank in the Société Générale group, struggled with month-end reporting because SAP data was difficult to extract in a usable format and the finance team spent excessive time manipulating exports in Excel. Facing year‑end pressures, they selected insightsoftware’s GL Wand (Wands product) to provide a quickly implementable reporting solution that worked with their existing SAP environment.

insightsoftware installed GL Wand on the server and deployed an Excel add‑in, giving the team live SAP data, drill‑down capability and one‑click refresh while preserving SAP security. The familiar Excel interface required minimal training and greatly sped up report building and turnaround, allowing the finance team to spend less time exporting and manipulating data and more time analyzing results and delivering value to the business.

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