Automate Studio now lets business teams post SAP transactions from Google Sheets without writing code, bringing governed ERP execution to teams that have never touched an SAP interface.
Precisely has updated Automate Studio to support Google Sheets as an execution surface for SAP processes, extending a capability that previously required Microsoft Excel or direct SAP interface access. The move is aimed at organisations running SAP environments that include Google Workspace users — a split that has become increasingly common as enterprise teams standardise on different productivity stacks.
The practical mechanics are straightforward: users load SAP data into a Google Sheet, apply validation against SAP rules, and post the result back to the ERP system — a round-trip workflow that Precisely calls governed execution. The company puts the potential reduction in manual effort at up to 90 percent on data-intensive tasks such as mass account creation, pricing changes, and extensions. That figure comes from Precisely's own customer data rather than an independent study.
With support for Google Sheets in Automate Studio we're enabling them to work in that familiar environment while maintaining the governance, validation, and control required to operate SAP at scale.
For SAP teams, the governance argument is the more substantive one. Unmanaged spreadsheets have been a persistent compliance and audit risk in SAP environments for years. Users extract data, modify it locally, and rekeying it back by hand — a process that introduces errors and leaves no audit trail. Automate Studio intercepts that workflow and routes changes through SAP's own validation layer before anything gets posted.
The release is framed around Clean Core readiness, the SAP programme pushing customers away from custom ABAP code toward standard APIs and certified partner tools. Precisely argues that a governed spreadsheet interface reduces the need for custom development that would otherwise sit in the ABAP layer.
Precisely counts more than 12,000 organisations across 100 countries as customers, including 95 of the Fortune 100, though the Automate Studio product serves a narrower SAP-specific audience within that base.
