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Bye-Bye Spreadsheets - Hello In-Memory Cloud Financial Tools

Bye-Bye Spreadsheets – Hello In-Memory Cloud Financial Tools

By Brian Sommer on February 11, 2014

Intervention program for spreadsheet addicts: The key points Businesses are rebounding but Finance/Accounting groups getting no new headcount post-2008 Big changes in financial/managerial reporting tools are here New technology leaders well on the way Yet, the crack cocaine of accountants, spreadsheets, still has a strong appeal Challenge to businesses will be to accept all new […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Adaptive Insights, Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, Kyriba, Spreadsheet

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, Nicotine -- Why Can’t Procurement Shake the Excel Addiction? (Part 1)

Worse Than Drugs, Booze, Nicotine — Why Can’t Procurement Shake the Excel Addiction? (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on July 26, 2011

We all have our vices here in the Spend Matters office. Sheena will barely say hello before she’s ingested at least two cups of coffee. I personally drink (daily) more green tea than probably a small town in Japan does. And the wh…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged drug, Microsoft Excel, procurement, Spreadsheet | 1 Response

Spend Matters Study: Forget Ariba, SAP and Oracle -- World Class Procurement Organizations Use Excel

Spend Matters Study: Forget Ariba, SAP and Oracle — World Class Procurement Organizations Use Excel

By Jason Busch on April 1, 2011

In conjunction with the Centre for Supply Management Business Research based in Leeds, UK and Société de Gestion des Opérations in Nice, France, Spend Matters is pleased to publish preliminary findings from an ongoing study exa…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Humor, microsoft, Microsoft Excel, Spreadsheet

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

Tibco Silver Spotfire – Social BI? Why Not?

Tibco Silver Spotfire – Social BI? Why Not?

By Merv Adrian on July 14, 2010

Tibco, fresh from a Q2 with license revenue up 23% over last year’s, continuing a two year run of beating consensus earnings estimates, has stepped up and out ahead to pursue the long-coveted mid-market customers who don’t use BI but find that spreadsheets don’t do enough.  Tibco believes, like Microsoft, that many are social technology […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Access, business intelligence, Cloud, data visualization, Event Processing, gartner, guided analytics, Informatica, microsoft, middleware, predictive analytics, S, Spreadsheet, statistical analysis, Tibco, visualization, XML

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 Spreadsheet gets a (Revision) History

The Spreadsheet gets a (Revision) History

By Ross Mayfield on October 19, 2009

Today marks the 30th anniversary of VisiCalc, the spreadsheet that sparked the PC Revolution. You can read on Dan Bricklin’s blog the evolution of the spreadsheet from then to now, the day Socialtext took SocialCalc out of beta. To help…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Dan Bricklin, socialtext, Spreadsheet, VisiCalc

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