EASA vs. SharePoint: Choosing the Best Platform for Managing Excel Spreadsheets
Excel spreadsheets remain essential tools for businesses, but choosing the right platform to manage them can be challenging. While SharePoint is excellent for collaboration, it may fall short in certain business-critical scenarios. This is where EASA provides a robust alternative. Below, we break down when to use each solution. SharePoint OverviewMicrosoft SharePoint is a powerful […]
Turning Excel files into SaaS applications: How to monetize your Excel spreadsheet
As the go-to tool for data organization and analysis, businesses have long built bespoke Excel tools to power many of their most fundamental internal business processes, from pricing calculations, project estimation and management to financial modeling. But along the way, a new business opportunity has emerged — leveraging such bespoke spreadsheets as products in their […]
How to Embed Web Applications on Your Website?
Many companies have started embedding web apps within their websites. For instance, an enterprise may want to provide their viewers the option to use the tools of their trade, or use their website to supply a certain value for subscribers — a financial planning tool or an engineering calculator, for instance. Apps of the sort […]
Citizen Developers: What are they and what are the benefits?
People have long created functional applications to assist their everyday work — in fact, one of the platforms most commonly used for this purpose is Microsoft Excel, which has been around since 1987! However, recently, more and more businesses are realizing the potential of citizen development and harnessing its many perks. Indeed, according to the […]
How to Create a Searchable Database from a Spreadsheet?
Data is arguably the most important element for business success, but the degree that companies are able to collect, manipulate, analyze and ultimately make use of that data varies enormously. There are a number of reasons companies under-leverage their data, but here we are focusing on one of the most common reasons, and that has […]
The End of an Era? Microsoft Disables Excel 4.0 Macros
Since April, Microsoft has made the move many have called for and disabled macros. This has been a long time coming, with many security experts warning of the risks of this feature. It is believed that Microsoft hadn’t made this move until now due to its large number of users that rely on macros heavily. […]
Spreadsheet vs Database: Which is Better?
Enterprises know that data is essential for their success. Without collecting, analyzing and utilizing it correctly, organizations are not likely to be able to assess their current business position, improve their processes, and achieve growth. However, manipulating data for your company’s needs may be more tricky than it sounds. There are so many tools at […]
8 advantages of a Relational Database
We live in the age of data. Information has become our most valuable resource, allowing businesses to streamline, refine and improve their services and, as a result, their profits. One of the main benefits of data is that it is infinite — you can always collect more of it, and as your customer base grows, […]
4 Steps to a Seamless Scenario Analysis Process
Let’s be honest. None of us are fortune tellers. However, there’s no need to dust off the old crystal ball in order to predict the future when we’ve got Microsoft Excel. The software supports a scenario analysis — a process that examines different variables to anticipate subsequent outcomes. It’s particularly useful for businesses, as it […]
Is Excel a Database?
Excel is the world’s leading spreadsheet tool with over half a billion users, and is often used as a database for businesses and individuals to store information in. But should it really be used this way? Well, if this sorry story from the UK is anything to go by, then perhaps not. Back in October […]