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It's accessible and empowers the individual. Not everyone can code, but everyone can transform data in a spreadsheet and email it off to the next person.
by discordance 7y ago
It's accessible and empowers the individual.
Not everyone can code, but everyone can transform data in a spreadsheet and email it off to the next person.
- pier25 7y agoI guess everyone accessing the same data at all times is not so valuable after all. I've seen people having multiple versions of the same excel file and not remembering which was the last one...
- Flyer1 7y agoI agree with most of the answers already posted about why Excel is so ubiquitous. To respond to this comment specifically, though, I'll just mention that we use a product called EASA to enable us put a web app on top of critical spreadsheets while also connecting to a database i.e. you can "de-couple" the data from the logic. There are some use-cases that describes this here: https://easasoftware.com/case-studies/amlin-reducing-risks-errors-excel-data-input-aggregation/ https://easasoftware.com/case-studies/amlin-reducing-risks-e... ...and here: https://easasoftware.com/case-studies/leaseplan-transforming-scenario-pricing-models-spreadsheet-tools-into-enterprise-web-applications/ https://easasoftware.com/case-studies/leaseplan-transforming...