Name: GL Wand (Legacy)
Rating: 4.5 (43 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is GL Wand (Legacy)?

GL Wand (Legacy) is a software designed for financial and accounting professionals to enable reporting and analysis from ERP systems, specifically Oracle and SAP environments. The software facilitates the creation and management of financial reports directly within Microsoft Excel, allowing users to access, retrieve, and manipulate live financial data without requiring extensive technical knowledge or custom programming. GL Wand (Legacy) addresses common business challenges such as manual data entry, inefficient reporting workflows, and limited data visibility by automating report generation and streamlining reconciliation processes. Users can leverage prebuilt templates and ad-hoc query capabilities to gain insights into general ledger transactions and balances, helping organizations improve accuracy and efficiency in financial reporting and decision making.

Overall experience with GL Wand (Legacy)

ACCOUNT MANAGER

500M - 1B USD, Manufacturing

FAVORABLE

“the best tool for financiers, manage your numbers with gl wand”

5.0

Feb 19, 2020

Excellent experience using gl wand, I can make my month closures without errors and best of all without changing my Excel format integrated with the SAP I use.

Investment analyst

<50M USD, Finance (non-banking)

CRITICAL

“Implementaion in existing frameworks is easy but needs more analytic tools”

3.0

Oct 29, 2018

Works smoothly but lacks imagination. The extension to existing solutions is easy but it lacks in analytic solution that are available in the market for comparable solutions.

About Company

Company Description

insightsoftware is a global provider of comprehensive solutions for the Office of the CFO. We believe an actionable business strategy begins and ends with accessible financial data. With solutions across financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accounting, and operations, we transform how teams operate, empowering leaders to make timely and informed decisions. With data at the heart of everything we do, insightsoftware enables automated processes, delivers trusted insights, boosts predictability, and increases productivity.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2018

Head office location

Raleigh, United States

Number of employees

1001 - 5000

Website

https://bit.ly/3qEiaOf

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GL Wand (Legacy) Likes & Dislikes

What I like most about gl wand is that it takes advantage of SAP's existing security settings and provides very complete financial reports that can be updated every time that is required, this helps when I have to make the closing of the month and I have some unforeseen mainly, besides that preserves both the format and formulas of excel something that makes its handling much easier.

The extension to existing frameworks

Data is easily imported/retrieved from SAP to Excel which was tired some once..

Sometimes it appears to me when I am using a message that says Incorrect System Behavior, I think it is an error that must be corrected.

Lack of analytic tools

sometimes ,there exist a message which displaysWrong System behaviour which needs to be fixed up.

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50M-1B USD

Manufacturing

Review Source

the best tool for financiers, manage your numbers with gl wand

Feb 18, 2020

Asst.Professor

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Safely Generated Critical Financial reports are just a doorstep away!

4.0

Apr 15, 2019

Excel4 apps-GL Wand is an effective way to convert your day to day slow and cumbersome process of dumping your "To be Evaluated" Financial Data into a new speedup and recharged way of generating complex reports. All Critical data can be feed up in this new product and your work will be done in lesser time efficiently.

Manager

Construction

Perfect for mundane customization

there was a learning curve but the product really shows the different applications available for Microsoft Excel. GL Wand has been around for several years due to its availability within the different operating systems.

<50M USD

Finance (non-banking)

Implementaion in existing frameworks is easy but needs more analytic tools

Computer Technician

Telecommunication

The most powerful and easy-to-use reporting tool.

Aug 7, 2018

GL Wand allows highly efficient and secure financial reports, provides reports with detailed capabilities that can be updated on demand, you can install and widely deploy Excel4apps solutions in minutes.