In one of my earlier posts I announced the BAI to Excel Service for free. BAI to Excel web based application was our attempt to make a small dent in the universe of treasury workstations.
Put simply; BAI To Excel is a web application by Treasury Sciences which allows you to turn messy and complicated BAI files into simple excel worksheets that you can analyze. If you would like to know more about the service you should click here.
In another one of my post I also announced the fact that the API of this service are also now free for you to use. While announcing this service; I had brushed against the fact that the API should open up a whole lot of possibilities for folks who want to build custom applications around the BAI to Excel Service.
BAI To Excel Desktop Client; who pre-beta version we are releasing today; is our attempt at showcasing the kind of applications that can be built by consuming the web service API.
BAI to Excel Desktop Client is a cute looking application that sits quietly on your desktop and allows you to convert BAI files to excel files really quickly without having to go to the BAI to Excel website.
You can either click the Add button on the application or drag and drop multiple BAI files into the application:
Once the files have been added just press the 'covert' button and the program will convert each BAI file into a corresponding excel file.
Once done you can either save each excel file you want in a desired location by clicking the save icon next to each file or you can click the "Save All" button and pick a folder where you would like to save all the converted excel files.
You can use the same tool to add zip files which in turn contain the BAI files you want to convert.
Doing this allows you to choose if you want to have all converted BAI files merge into one single Excel file or you want a separate excel file for each BAI file in the zip.
You can pick this preference by click on the preference tab and picking the preference based on what you would like to have --- one single excel file for all BAI files or each BAI file having it's corresponding excel files.
Note: The BAI to Excel client is built using Windows Presentation Foundation and .NET Framework 3.5. If you are running Windows Vista or above the application should just run out of the box. If however you are on an older operating system you may have to download .NET Framework 3.5 on your machine before you can run the client. You can get the .NET Framework 3.5 by clicking here.
Since the BAI to Excel desktop application consumes the same web-service based API that we expose; it will require internet access each time you try to convert files using it.
Also note that in order for this client to function you will have to change your preference and allow web service access to your BAI to Excel account. If you would like to know how to change this preference and enable web service access on your BAI to Excel account you can click here to find out more details.
To access the application and start using it, you can begin by clicking here.
As always; we would love hearing your ideas, opinions and feedback. If you have any comments or suggestions feel free to email me at rajiv@thousandtyone.com.
Special thanks to Rohit Jain working on this Treasury Sciences Labs initiative; Amit Ghosh for giving it a beautiful user-interface and to Syed Khader for giving it QA cycles.