Excel tips to impress your friends January 18, 2007
Posted by James Webster in : finance , trackbackIf you happen to find yourself surrounded by Excel gurus and are having trouble keeping up, as anyone who is new to the financial industry may find, you might find Juice Analytics’ Excel Training Worksheet handy.
If you scoff at the idea of Excel being the number 1 tool in use by most of the business world, consider this… ‘databases are rocks, spreadsheets are water’.
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Even shared folders on servers backed by the enterprise data store aren’t guaranteed to hold the spreadsheets - most users end up chucking them on their C drive. Those lunatic organisations that prevent “My Documents” being on a server folder are more likely to be in trouble.
This is an excellent case for “Enterprise Web 2.0″ spreadsheet web applications. The outcome for the end user is the same - perhaps even better, because they can access the sheet from anywhere (that is, anywhere IT Security allows them to access it from). The outcome for the sweating CIO is better - the data and application are stored on the enterprise data store infrastructure.