Case Study: ActewAGL achieves real-time, simplified reporting and faster monthly closes with insightsoftware's Reports Wand

Leading Australian Energy Provider Simplifies Reporting with Reports Wand

ActewAGL, a leading Australian electricity and gas provider, faced a major reporting challenge during its move to Oracle R12: Oracle Discoverer was discontinued, existing custom SQL became unusable, and OBIEE implementations were slow, consultant-dependent and delivered day‑old data—leaving ActewAGL near R12 go‑live without transactional and project management reports. To address this, ActewAGL turned to insightsoftware and its Reports Wand product.

insightsoftware implemented Reports Wand to provide Excel‑based, real‑time connections directly to R12 with no data warehouse or extra hardware required. The fast installation let consultants build R12‑compatible reports that ActewAGL staff converted into tailored templates; project managers now get live data and continually refine reports. Measured benefits include a single report that saves three hours on each monthly close, faster report creation across Oracle modules, and ongoing usability enhancements from insightsoftware (for example, Oracle List of Values support).

ActewAGL

Donna Christie

Finance Applications and Reporting Specialist