GL Wand is the collective name of Reporting Software for allowing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...

 to be used as the front end to either Oracle E-Business Suite or SAP

SAP AG

SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

 as the back end ERP system. The GL acronym stands for General Ledger

General ledger

The main accounting record of a business which uses double-entry bookkeeping. It will usually include accounts for such items as current assets, fixed assets, liabilities, revenue and expense items, gains and losses. Each General Ledger is divided into debits and credits sections. The left hand...

 and the word Wand

Wand

A wand is a thin, straight, hand-held stick of wood, stone, ivory, or metal. Generally, in modern language, wands are ceremonial and/or have associations with magic but there have been other uses, all stemming from the original meaning as a synonym of rod and virge, both of which had a similar...

was selected by the creators to imply an almost magical power that the user would have when using the software for summoning data from the backend ERP. At least one existing user has incorporated the magical theme into a paper on GL Wand published in the Foresight magazine of the Australian Oracle User Group entitled Waiving the Magic Wand.

Product Name	Host ERP	Description
GL Wand for use with Oracle	Oracle E-Business Suite	Excel based Reporting tool for Oracle finance users
GL Wand for use with SAP	SAP	Excel based Reporting tool for SAP finance users
Reports Wand	Oracle E-Business Suite	Excel based Reporting from any Oracle module
Budget Wand	Oracle E-Business Suite	Excel based Budgeting and upload tool
Sales Wand	SAP	Excel based Sales Reporting tool for use with SAP

The software was developed by Excel4apps and is deployed as an Excel add-in onto the Microsoft Excel toolbar.