Requirements for Word-AddIn and PowerPoint-AddIn in version 12

Beloi Marquez

 

Sylvana Neydek (Infor Community Members) Sep 11, 2019 06:05 AM During the Infor EPM User Group Meeting in Mannheim, Germany, we talked a lot about version 12 and the features coming up. The development team is currently thinking about the Word-AddIn and PowerPoint-AddIn in version 12. Based on your feedback they will decide if they will support the AddIns and how to configure the features. Therefore please let us know here, how do you currently use the Infor AddIns of Word and Powerpoint and how do like to use them in the future. Please share your experiences to give the development team an impression of the requirements regarding Infor AddIns.  Please add your comment here.

Mike Potashnick

The inclusion of the word-addin is an essential part of the solution. Although actual adoption of the final mile reporting has not been as high as expected, it is gaining traction in the user community, especially in certain verticals, such as Housing Associations in the UK. Having the word-addin, also gives us either a competitive advantage or draws us level with other products, in a pre-sales situation. 

With regard to the product itself, it needs to be easier to setup than in V11 and must be resilient enough to  work with large App Studio reports on a cell or whole report basis. The refresh needs to be seamless and it should not rely on having a dashboard open at the time of running the report.

I would think that the new Consolidation solution should be showcasing a Word-add in with a set of published accounts as the output. Add a journal, see the reports in Word Change.

Powerpoint simply needs to refresh data from the model. I would love it to have the Excel integration functionality so that the user can create a browse in Powerpoint. If that is not possible then the same functionality available through the word addin should be part of the Powerpoint addin.