That's a hard question to answer and depends on your size and what you really need. For small companies, Excel may really be all that you need. But at a certa

That's a hard question to answer and depends on your size and what you really need. For small companies, Excel may really be all that you need. But at a certain size, you might want to use something like PowerBI instead since it will also pull directly from the database and you can share the dashboards you create very easily. Large companies like the article are referring to might be able to get by with PowerBI (Microsoft would certainly argue there are still plenty of places where it works) or ERP/HR tools more specifically designed for certain uses.