Excel remains an important productivity application at most companies and many information workers maintain or receive their data in Excel files, especially accounting, budgeting, and other financial data. In companies that have implemented various SAP solutions, these Excel data silos end up being very counterproductive due to delays involved in getting the Excel data into the SAP system in a timely fashion.

This article describes how to easily integrate Excel data with SAP solutions and the resulting benefits from such integration – reduction in financial closing time, reduction in data entry resources, and availability of timely data for reporting.