> There isn't an IT department in the world that can develop centralized IT solutions fast enough to keep up with the ways employees slice & dice data. That's

> There isn't an IT department in the world that can develop centralized IT solutions fast enough to keep up with the ways employees slice & dice data. That's why the principal way you sell centralized systems to users isn't in the ease of manipulating results but in the ease / automation of data entry. The whole pain point and problem with Excel is in manual data entry, and having a single source of truth, even if you succeed in enforcing its property as a single source of truth, does not automatically solve disagreements between different human sources of data. That's why tools like Grafana have interesting futures for business users, because they enforce a clear separation between data sources and data visualization, while offering a lot of control to the end user over statistical manipulations and visualizations that they can create, and keeping those visualizations updated in real time, so that they don't have to be re-prepared every time period for some new report.