Which is of course true. But in my experience people use excel because it is flexible and accessible. It helps you to store the relevant data and add additional

Which is of course true. But in my experience people use excel because it is flexible and accessible. It helps you to store the relevant data and add additional information if necessary. This helps to produce answers to questions that come up e.g. by management, quickly. Of course IT and other dream of SAP monoliths that have all the information. But of course reality is much more messy than these systems and their UI is usually pretty shitty and laggy