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Excel is an adequate replacement for most enterprise crud apps.
by breckenedge 5y ago
Excel is an adequate replacement for most enterprise crud apps.
- v-erne 5y agoThats backwards - most of enterprise apps tries to replace excel spreadsheets that already exists (90% of my work starts with "we have this home cooked execel over here - can You make the data more accessible for managers ...")
- breckenedge 5y agoThat’s probably true from your perspective, but not backwards from mine.
- v-erne 5y agoI agree that perpective matters - what I wanted to say here is that from my perspective the enterprise applications that You are thinking about are like this because they are somehow direct or indirect descendants of excels. The proper ones (old school ERPs from SAP, Oracle or MS) would crumble under their own weight if implemented in excel (and I have seen stuff done by "Citizen Developers" that tried to achive just that and it was a sight to behold).
- hodgesrm 5y agoThis. I would add that Google Sheets is even better. It's less feature-rich than Excel but makes up for it by being shared. It's the most powerful business management tool I've ever used.
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoI used to know a guy who made a living making Excel VBA apps for small businesses. In terms of what the business needed, it was as good as any other approach would have been.
- jka 5y agoA few SQL statements + ad-hoc spreadsheet analysis can also potentially be way more achievable and powerful within a couple of spare hours than using weeks+ of engineering resources to build in-house reporting tools (that frequently end up over-fitting to specific requests).