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 wil421 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:05PM (#15820020)

You have to understand that enterprise class companies don’t want Access databases under people desks. It might be valid reason for the sales or ordering guy who loses control to complain. For the IT professionals at the company it allows them to create a scalable solution that can be used at an enterprise level.

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by maxxxxx on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:10PM (#15820052)

And suddenly every addition that could be done in 5 minutes now takes months or gets rejected by the devs.

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by jordanb on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:21PM (#15820935)

Hadoop isn't Oracle. If you need to write a file to the data lake, you write it. If you need to read something out you do that too. There's no schema, it's actually a file system with actual files in it, like your shared drive. Except that it's distributed, can handle arbitrarily large files and lets you perform queries on those files instead of downloading all 2TB to access a single row.

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