Excel has been used and abused past it usefulness in the 'Big (Monkey) Business'; Any tailored software has to go through the constant scrutiny of IT managers

Excel has been used and abused past it usefulness in the 'Big (Monkey) Business'; Any tailored software has to go through the constant scrutiny of IT managers and bean counters that don't understand anything and are over impatient while a donkey can 'code' a couple of function in Excel. Excel DOES NOT take into account user abuse and collaboration between them, and I don't blame it. But this is a networked world and not anymore a collection of work station where data is better passed from one user to another one via the mean of a floppy disk..... The use of tools is reflecting the cerebral activity level of its user base.