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Wanted: A Rules Engine for Excel

Wanted: A Rules Engine for Excel

By Basab Pradhan on February 12, 2013

James Kwak writes about the role of Excel in the JPMorgan 2012 trading loss After the London Whale trade blew up, the Model Review Group discovered that the model had not been automated and found several other errors. Most spectacularly, “After subtracting the old rate from the new rate, the spreadsheet divided by their sum […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged excel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft Excel, Spreadsheet, technology

Worse Than Drugs, Booze and Nicotine -- Why Can’t Procurement Shake the Excel Addiction? (Part 2)

Worse Than Drugs, Booze and Nicotine — Why Can’t Procurement Shake the Excel Addiction? (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on July 27, 2011

I reckon that I personally spend between one and two hours per day in Excel, and that’s without doing any active sourcing projects anymore. Back when I was directly involved with sourcing events and the product planning associated with rolling out new technologies around them, I was probably using Excel for 3-4 hours per day. I’m not alone. CombineNet’s recent study looking at the Excel addiction in corporate procurement teams found similar high-usage patterns. In looking at 100 organizations in April and May of 2011, CombineNet found…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged CombineNet, excel, Microsoft Excel | 1 Response

Shrinking Balls

Shrinking Balls

By John Taschek on February 10, 2011

In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged @jtaschek, analysts, bullying, chatter, Cloud Computing, cloudblog, Constellation, excel, Facebook, google, iPad/Apple, mean girls, microsoft, mobile, NetBase Solutions, platform, Ray Wang, real-time, salesforce.com, sentiment analysis, Shakespeare, Super Bowl, taschek, Twitter, Weblogs

Smartsheet and collaboration

Smartsheet and collaboration

By Denis Pombriant on January 23, 2011

I took a briefing with Smartsheet yesterday.  It’s a type of collaboration software but it operates in a more textual way than the social media based tools on the market like Facebook or its business counterpart, Chatter from Salesforce.com. What’s immediately striking about the product is its spreadsheet metaphor.  Everyone connected with the product will […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged CRM, excel, Facebook, google apps, Smartsheet, Spreadsheet, technology | 1 Response

Collaboration Tools : SharePoint = Enterprise Apps : Excel

Collaboration Tools : SharePoint = Enterprise Apps : Excel

By Josh Greenbaum on July 16, 2010

As I sat through an overview of one of the latest collaboration tools on the market, a product called Spaces from nGenera, I began to have a deja-vu all over again moment. The discussion centered around the unique value proposition that nGenera was putting forth in the product, and, while the arguments behind them were […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged collaboration, excel, microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, ngenera | 2 Responses

Microsoft Plays Where’s Waldo? With BI – Good Idea

Microsoft Plays Where’s Waldo? With BI – Good Idea

By Merv Adrian on June 10, 2010

In April, I was critical of the BI messaging I heard from Microsoft – as told, it was long on benefit adjectives and short on architectural clarity. But things have changed since then, and the Combined Tech Ed/Business Intelligence Conference made that very clear. Do I see more clarity because I now know more of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, BI, BIDS, BizTalk, business intelligence, Business Intelligence Development Studio, Data mining, DMX, drm, excel, Forefront, ibm, Industry Trends, IT, master data management, master data services, MDS, microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, MIcrosoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Silverlight, Office, OLAP, oracle, Performance Point, PMML, predictive analytics, Reporting Services, SAP BW, SAS, sharepoint, silverlight, spss, SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, T-SQL, Teradata, TSQL, Windows Server

Who’s to blame for "Excel hell?"

Who’s to blame for “Excel hell?”

By Thomas Otter on February 27, 2010

My blogging mojo had left the building for a while, but for better or worse it returned today. When I speak to enterprise software vendors they often moan about Excel. They say it is not secure, and that most spreadsheets contain errors. They preach about the dangers of information silos, of decisions made on old […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged design, enterprise software, erp, excel, Facebook, microsoft, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, shelfware, software as a service, Spreadsheet, ui, usability | 9 Responses

The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management

The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management

By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on December 1, 2009

In the wake of the long-running massive industry consolidation in the Enterprise Software industry that reached its zenith with the acquisitions of Business Intelligence market leaders Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects in 2007, one could certainly have been forgiven for being less than optimistic about the prospects of innovation in the Analytics, Business Intelligence, and […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 2010 predictions, analytics, business intelligence, Business Objects, cognos, Enterprise resource planning, excel, hadoop, hyperion, ibm, mashups, master data management, ms excel, performance management, predictive analysis, SaaS, salesforce.com, sharepoint, spss, varicent, virtualization, workday | 35 Responses

FieldGlass Doubles Down on BI and Contingent Spend (Part 2)

FieldGlass Doubles Down on BI and Contingent Spend (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on November 23, 2009

In my first column tackling the latest from Chicago-based VMS provider Fieldglass last week, I provided an overview of a number of the gaps they recently filled from a reporting, analytics, visualization and benchmarking perspective in their solution…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, benchmark, Category Management, excel, fieldglass, innovation, iqnavigator, Services Procurement, Visibility

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