Winshuttle is the ERP Usability Company, providing software products that enable business users to work with SAP directly from Excel, Web forms and other interfaces without any programming. SAP users often struggle to effectively run the complex business processes supported by SAP. Winshuttle solves this problem by offering familiar interfaces to SAP, which improves productivity and saves customers significant time and money.
Winshuttles suite of solutions work with all SAP modules, enabling both business and IT users to solve any SAP data or business process challenge by securely expanding SAP interactions to both employees and partners. Thousands of global customers use Winshuttle to make their SAP lives easier.
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Bothell, Washington, Winshuttle has offices in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and India.
Winshuttle Central helps companies more effectively manage SAP scripts, queries, and user access. As users create custom scripts to load or extract SAP data (using Winshuttle Transaction or Winshuttle Query), Central enables IT to control the use of those scripts within the company and manage them in a centralized manner.
It also enables companies to share files and best practices across business units, and it addresses specific requirements for controls and audit trails to meet SOX and corporate governance policies.
Transaction improves business processes for both implementation and post-production projects, including:
– SAP data quality
– SAP data import
– SAP data entry
– SAP data integration
With Transaction, users can automate any SAP process and shuttle data from familiar applicationssuch as Excelto SAP. These automated processes use native SAP security and authorizations to ensure regulatory compliance.
Winshuttle Runner enables companies to implement a desktop solution that helps make SAP simpler to use for casual SAP users.
With Runner, employees can enter and extract SAP data through an Excel add-in or desktop application, yet all SAP security and data validation rules still apply. Runner works with any of SAPs thousands of transactions and business application programming interfaces (BAPIs and RFMs).
Winshuttle Query enables functional analysts and business users to use a familiar interfacesuch as Excelto create ad-hoc reports from real-time SAP data, which can help improve a companys operational and strategic decision making processes. Query is the perfect platform for companies that want to implement a non-technical solution that makes real-time SAP data more accessible.
Jeff Bergstrom is Chief Financial Officer of Mpire. As Mpires CFO, Bergstrom is responsible for managing the company’s financial strategy and operations, as well as overseeing and implementing all financial reporting, forecasting, tax functions, and cash flow operations. Jeff has been an Internet startup “exit” veteran during his 18-year financial career. He has managed multi-billion-dollar acquisitions and mergers, facilitated private equity transactions, and navigated business finances during tough macro-economic times. In all, Bergstrom has built and sold three tech and Internet companies resulting in over $2.2B in shareholder value. He spent five years with Internet company Go2Net, helping the company grow to over $110M in annual revenue and $40M in annual operating cash flow. He was deeply involved with the purchase and integration of nine companies in two years, and also led the financial team ultimately responsible for the acquisition by InfoSpace for approximately $2.0B.
Jesse Lane first joined Summit Partners in 2007. Prior to Summit, he worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, UBS Investment Bank and Charlesbank Capital Partners.
Based in Summit’s Boston office, Jesse is active in the firm’s investment activities in North America and Europe, and focuses primarily on the technology and healthcare & life sciences sectors. His investment experience includes ApoCell, COMS Interactive, Heart to Heart Hospice, Modernizing Medicine and Winshuttle.
Jesse holds an AB in government from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Jesse has volunteered with Junior Achievement and Minds Matter in Boston, two non-profits focused on furthering educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths.
Before joining Summit Partners, Jesse played two seasons of professional hockey and was drafted by the Carolina Hurricanes in the National Hockey League Entry Draft.
Andrew Collins joined Summit Partners in 2008. Prior to Summit, he worked as an investment banking analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Banc of America Securities and ABN Amro Financial Services in Chicago.
Based in Summits Menlo Park office, Andrew is active in the firms investment activities in North America and Asia, and focuses primarily on the technology and healthcare sectors. His investment and board experience includes Cloudmark, Delphix, NetWitness (acquired by EMC Corporation), Philz Coffee, RiskIQ, Rocket Fuel, TeleSign Holdings, Ubiquiti Networks (NASDAQ: UBNT), Visier, WebAction, Wildfire Interactive (acquired by Google), Winshuttle Holdings and Wowza Media Systems.
Andrew holds a BS in finance from Miami University.
Andrew is a member of the Associates Board of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation (UCCRF), an organization that seeks funds to underwrite basic clinical research programs for the treatment of cancer