And these user-developed systems are often great...until someone accidently deletes or changes some data and it becomes a mess. Unfortunately, many businesses

And these user-developed systems are often great...until someone accidently deletes or changes some data and it becomes a mess. Unfortunately, many businesses then find they have no way to know the extent of the data lost or who did it. And there’s no proper backups. Happens over and over thoughout the world. Excel’s a great tool and there are lots of terrific uses for it. But what the article describes isn’t one of them. If we’re being honest, this isn’t the first time the issue’s been discussed and the companies likely aren’t actually switching away from excel, but rather supplementing it. In fact, the article seems to be more a “hit job” / “marketing piece” for Anaplan Inc., Workiva Inc. and Adaptive Insights.