Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands

Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by threatofrain on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:53PM (#15819922)

What I don't understand is when shops start stressing the scalability of Excel, such as accountancy shops that share their spreadsheets around through primitive systems of locking (even some of the big 10 accountancies do this), why they never considered anything like Access.

The jump is straight from Excel to full-on DB backend, with no transition in the middle.

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by fny on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:03PM (#15820002)

The transition isn't free. Additional software means more technical overhead. Now you need to worry about training your teams to understand and maintain an Access DB instead of pure spreadsheets. You'll now also have to worry about hiring people who'll be able to adapt to the new system. You'll probably need to hire a full time DBA too.

Also, if it ain't broke, why fix it? I feel like a transition to a new system at times is akin to a software rewrite.

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by Nullabillity on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:41AM (#15823266)

If there's something the world needs even less than more Excel, it's more Access.

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