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The problem with a database is that business users struggle to build them, they take longer, and sometimes can’t hold logic in the same way. Plus in a database
by Closi 6y ago
The problem with a database is that business users struggle to build them, they take longer, and sometimes can’t hold logic in the same way.
Plus in a database you can’t do the same sort of real-time analysis and also pass the document around for other non-technical folk to add to and modify.
In the real world in big companies, people often don’t want to talk to IT because they over-spec and quote what are perceived to be giant sums of money for something that can be created in an hour in excel.
- Closi 6y agoTo add to this point, the latest article says that they started building a replacement to the spreadsheet two months ago, so I think that reinforces the speed of a spreadsheet implementation vs anything else in the public sector!
- wbl 6y agoYou might not have realized this but they should have started work in January.
- Closi 6y agoYou might not have realized this, but a global pandemic was starting in January and they were probably collectively shitting bricks at that point trying to shoe-string together something to help capture reporting, while probably being in a change freeze, and also probably having to do a mass-migration to at home work with the inevitable struggles of that.