5 ways spreadsheets kill your business
Spreadsheets are a powerful, multipurpose tool used by businesspeople, analysts, data scientists, and technologists to collect, integrate, cleanse, analyze, and present data. They became popular in the 1980s with Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3 until Microsoft Excel began its dominating run in the 1990s. Today, Excel remains a leading Microsoft 365 platform but has competitors, including Google Sheets and Zoho Sheet.As technologists, we’re well aware of the saying, “Pick the right tools for the job,” and there are many reasons people will continue to use spreadsheets for at least the next decade. They’re certainly versatile tools for lightweight data analysis, sharing, and presentation, but their usefulness diminishes with growing data sets, increasing collaboration, and more business-critical workflows.To read this article in full, please click here
Spreadsheets are a powerful, multipurpose tool used by businesspeople, analysts, data scientists, and technologists to collect, integrate, cleanse, analyze, and present data. They became popular in the 1980s with Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3 until Microsoft Excel began its dominating run in the 1990s. Today, Excel remains a leading Microsoft 365 platform but has competitors, including Google Sheets and Zoho Sheet.
As technologists, we’re well aware of the saying, “Pick the right tools for the job,” and there are many reasons people will continue to use spreadsheets for at least the next decade. They’re certainly versatile tools for lightweight data analysis, sharing, and presentation, but their usefulness diminishes with growing data sets, increasing collaboration, and more business-critical workflows.
