Whenever I hear a process is run on excel I do a quick mental calculation of the relative risk of process defect severity, the time it takes to manually do the

Whenever I hear a process is run on excel I do a quick mental calculation of the relative risk of process defect severity, the time it takes to manually do the task in excel, and the investment + maintenance costs associated with automating. When running any process in excel after enough times there will be an error. It just depends on whether that error will cost you a lot of money or not. However, there is also a cost to automating these processes that goes beyond the initial investment. Someone needs to make sure the input data stays clean and coordinate any system-wide changes to the interfaces. This is a new thing that can break whenever system-wide changes get made so data governance becomes a priority.