>Your boss can avoid that, by replacing Microsoft Excel addiction with more appropriate analytics tools and processes. The problem is that excel is supremely f

>Your boss can avoid that, by replacing Microsoft Excel addiction with more appropriate analytics tools and processes. The problem is that excel is supremely flexible. You can do accounting, budgeting, inventory, reporting, forecasting, graphing, etc for a small to medium business from the same piece of software using basic formulas. I work at a small business and sometimes our specialized tools limit us in some of those areas, when you just want the ability to dump the raw data into excel (easily) and do a simple formula calculation.