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$16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it depends entirely on how many things you're tracking and how many people need to access it. It's probably not the right tool here, but sometimes it just is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Using it to share data can be a nightmare, especially since different departments might look at that data in various ways and want their own formats. I work for a Fortune 500 company that, at least at my level of management, emailing around attached full spreadsheets of daily data rather than have a centralized database. I've fought it for years, but it's what the higher ups want...stupid.

Even better when Microsoft puts out improvements like 365 and OneDrive that break certain functions, then depreciates Excel itself. God I hate the cloud.