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You'd be surprised to hear how many big organisations still use Excel for their reporting needs. I used to worked at a company with 35000 employees. Their payro
by jp0d 6y ago
You'd be surprised to hear how many big organisations still use Excel for their reporting needs. I used to worked at a company with 35000 employees. Their payroll reports were generated using a MS Access database and reported using Excel. It was a massive manual job every week as they'd weekly, fortnightly and monthly payroll cycles! It's very easy to lose files and/or make an error in the calculations. But nobody bothered to change it.
- kevin_nisbet 6y agoWe had a telco vendor use excel to manage all their configuration. It was a weird dual source of authority system, where the excel configuration was used at install / upgrade time, but you could change the config after the install at runtime. So you had to merge the active configuration into excel, upload the excel document to some server that customers didn't have access to that turned the excel file into a config file, then you could use that config file to upgrade the system. It was as problematic as you could imagine, lost configuration, lots of macros, etc. Eventually they made some improvements, but I left the industry so don't know what the current status is. Enterprise / Telecom solutions at their best.
- jp0d 6y agoI'm not surprised. I've seen all kind of shit working for enterprise clients. Only one of them adhered to very high standards and had processes for everything. They were a military contractor and most of the clients were ex-military.
- jaza 6y agoSee, they had far less than 65,536 employees, so Excel was fine for their workflow!
- jp0d 6y agolol.. These days it can support up to a million employees! :D