Running Your Business On Excel
Whenever we go visit with prospective clients, we usually notice that they are running their business with Excel. All their business critical information is managed in Excel. Customer information, order information, everything! Usually, they also have multiple copies of these spreadsheets floating around: one at home and several more copies at work. Inevitably, this leads to many problems because there is no single, authoritative source for your organization's business-critical data.
So if this is so common, why do so many people do this? Quite simply it is a lack of knowing any better.
So what are the alternatives? more...