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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by roenxi on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:31PM (#15821255)
Excel spreadsheets aren't maintainable, but in context there are some subtleties. If the process is upgraded to a full-blown piece of 'real' software, now you need a full-blown software dev to maintain it. A better result from more resources isn't a clean improvement, it is just a change.

Straddling the line between 'technically best outcome' and 'cheapest workable outcome' is what businesses strive to do. In most mature businesses change should be approached extremely cautiously; everybody loves changing things and the costs are frequently big.

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by vorotato on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:51AM (#15823770)
If your risk is less than it costs to build the software then that's totally acceptable, but what is unacceptable is billion dollar businesses using spreadsheets to manage critical business operations.
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