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I worked for a clearing company that mainly dealt with commodities market and option exchanges. It was a fight to get the individuals in finance to use the soft
by jetti 7y ago
I worked for a clearing company that mainly dealt with commodities market and option exchanges. It was a fight to get the individuals in finance to use the software we developed because they would just use Excel with macros. I had even been asked to look at one of the workbooks they were using to fix an error they had been having.
- oblio 7y agoThe problem with the software you developed is that they have to give up control. Every change is a change request which needs to be approved and implemented and tested and released. The upside is higher quality, the downside is way reduced turnaround speed if they need to change something. I understand why people using Excel are often reluctant to give it up.
- _bxg1 7y agoThis. Excel democratizes computation in a way that code has yet to do. If something breaks, non-technical people can just jump in and fix it. If they need new functionality, same thing. They don't have to bring in (or retain) a specialist. That's an incredibly powerful proposition.
- Spooky23 7y agoQuality often goes down. That request process results in you getting what you ask for, not what you want. Think about anything that you do in Excel. In what scenario do you roll with exactly what you initially start with? I just did a preliminary capital forecast in Excel. I could have used something like Google sheets as well, but beyond that, the lack of flexibility makes purpose built solutions less able without specialized people that I don’t have or domain knowledge that I don’t possess.