Excel+PowerQuery is and will continue to be the most capable and accessible scratch pad people use. That is: get data out of your central system(s), crunch it i

Excel+PowerQuery is and will continue to be the most capable and accessible scratch pad people use. That is: get data out of your central system(s), crunch it in Excel, feed the results back to your central system and reference the spreadsheet as a record of your calculations. The big problem is when people promote it to collaboration and workflow management software.