Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co...
by drumhead on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:33AM
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So True!
Spend a few million on a web based reporting system. Allows self service reports using real time data. As it runs on a browser literally anyone can use it.
Only problem - formatting and printing is for shit and users want it in excel so they can manipulate and format data how they want, on the pages they want, in the colors and font sizes they want.
I agree with Excel not being the most stable or error free platform for reporting, but is there any easy to use alternative? Whatever we try we keep coming back to Excel/spreadsheets.
Spend a few million on a web based reporting system. Allows self service reports using real time data. As it runs on a browser literally anyone can use it.
Only problem - formatting and printing is for shit and users want it in excel so they can manipulate and format data how they want, on the pages they want, in the colors and font sizes they want.
I agree with Excel not being the most stable or error free platform for reporting, but is there any easy to use alternative? Whatever we try we keep coming back to Excel/spreadsheets.