I usually frame this as "there isn't any single problem for which excel is the right tool, but for surprising amount of problems it is usable tool" And I've fo

I usually frame this as "there isn't any single problem for which excel is the right tool, but for surprising amount of problems it is usable tool" And I've found out that having excel export of essentially any data in your line of bussines application is indispensable unless you expose some kind of excel-like querying and data manipulation mechanism to users as part of your application.