At my last job billions of dollars of revenue flowed through an ERP that had a problem: onboarding a reseller in it was a tedious, error prone process that if d

At my last job billions of dollars of revenue flowed through an ERP that had a problem: onboarding a reseller in it was a tedious, error prone process that if done improperly would cause the same system to grind to a screeching halt. Apparently a software company realized this and built a series of Excel sheets and macros that handled everything: a customizable interface if you wanted, bulk import, full validation and export - all in Excel. It was probably the most loved part of the Oracle ERP implementation because it worked for everyone. Excel files on a network drive will always be the lingua franca of business.