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I agree with this 100% however Excel is also grossly overused in my oppinion. I have seen many cases where companies would (theoretically) have been better off
by kriro 14y ago
I agree with this 100% however Excel is also grossly overused in my oppinion. I have seen many cases where companies would (theoretically) have been better off migrating a bunch of the stuff they do in Excel to their ERP system.
My conclusion in most of these cases was that said ERP systems must suck (and that it's really hard to get someone, especially execs so switch IT habits) :D
- tg3 14y agoNot just ERP, but in my experience people use Excel for everything - project management, data cleansing/manipulation/conversion, test scripts, status reports, etc. All things that can be done better with other tools, but for many people, it's easier to just work with a tool that they know rather than trying to learn a new tool (witness the groans every time a new $PROCESS Management Tool is introduced). Not saying it's a good or bad thing, just what I've observed.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoExcel is basically an extremely user-friendly IDE for a Turing-complete programming language.
- brudgers 14y agoTabulus claims to be lightweight ERP. http://www.tabulus.com/Home.aspx http://www.tabulus.com/Home.aspx My first engineering manager wrote letters in Lotus123. And often I had to edit them.