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Business Intelligence (BI) Vs. Spreadsheets
White Papers Spreadsheets have been used by small and mid-size organizations to satisfy their demands for analysis, to give them a competitive advantage. This paper discusses the merits of BI versus spreadsheets in today's global changing scenario.
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
Spreadsheets and Sarbanes-Oxley: Regulations, Risks, and Control Frameworks
White Papers Surveys conducted in response to SOX have shown that spreadsheets are used widely in corporate financial reporting. Spreadsheet error research, in turn, has shown that nearly all large spreadsheets have multiple errors and that errors of material...
[August 3, 2007, 2:00]
Turbo-Charging Spreadsheets: Accessing SAS Forecast Server From Microsoft Excel
White Papers According to major surveys of organizational forecasting practices, there is continued widespread use of spreadsheets for forecasting, despite major advances during the last 20 years in the availability, performance, and ease of use of business...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Using Single-Purpose SAS Macros to Format EXCEL Spreadsheets With DDE
White Papers Single-purpose macros for formatting EXCEL spreadsheets are described in this paper. The paper also discusses the DDE triplet and doublet and with a more in-depth look at X4ML commands that are used for formatting EXCEL spreadsheets from inside SAS.
[September 12, 2006, 1:00]
Replacing Multiple Spreadsheets With PIPE-FLO for Hydraulic Analysis and Pump Selection
White Papers However, because the spreadsheet was limited to analysis of one pump, in complex systems multiple spreadsheets were needed to conduct the analysis. As a full service engineering firm, Parker, Messana & Associates work on large, complex systems with...
[September 13, 2006, 0:00]
Performance and Reliability for Excel Spreadsheets Through High Performance Computing
White Papers This paper describes how to increase the computational power and reliability of Excel 2007 spreadsheets through the use of the Microsoft High Performance Computing platform composed of Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Effective Risk Management & Compliance for Business Critical Spreadsheets in the 2007 Microsoft Office System
White Papers Spreadsheets are used every day in organizations across the globe to drive critical business decisions. Yet, this power and ubiquity can expose organizations to unacceptable business risks when critical spreadsheets and other end-user computing...
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
Google Docs and Spreadsheets realistic target market... not the enterprise.
Talkback When I first encountered a promotion for Google Docs and Spreadsheets Beta version after logging out of my AdWords account I was skeptical. Google Docs and Spreadsheets is a great collaboration tool. I can only think of one application that has all...
[November 17, 2006, 18:26]
PHP Hacks: Create Excel Spreadsheets Dynamically
White Papers One also can create spreadsheets dynamically. With the new XML features of Microsoft Office 2004, one can build spreadsheets by simply using XML. Word processing documents aren't the only things one might want to generate dynamically.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Multiple Entry Spreadsheets
White Papers The idea, when applied to the domain of spreadsheets, has two parts - embrace dependency cycles (change the semantics of dependency cycles), and allow multiple formulas in a spreadsheet cell. The author discusses the background to the concept, and...
[September 20, 2006, 1:00]
When Is It Time to Move Away From Spreadsheets?
White Papers A few spreadsheets will do the trick and take very little set up time or training to get started. When importers are first starting out, the most critical thing is selling product and getting it for a good price.
[June 27, 2009, 1:21]
Sales Commissions and Spreadsheets - A Calculated Disaster
White Papers Spreadsheets are overwhelmingly used in the calculating of sales commissions in most businesses. This is even more acute in small and mid-market businesses who cannot afford to build more robust systems.
[September 20, 2006, 1:00]
Taking Risk Out of Actuarial Spreadsheets
White Papers However, those vital spreadsheets also cause profound challenges and risks for the organization at large and for the software development teams that support it. The Actuate e.Spreadsheet Engine transforms Excel spreadsheets into Java components...
[January 30, 2009, 8:30]
The Use of Spreadsheets: Considerations for Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
White Papers Many companies rely on spreadsheets as a key tool in their financial reporting and operational processes. As a result, the use of spreadsheets is an integral part of the information and decision-making framework for these companies.
[March 16, 2009, 2:19]
Google Spreadsheets doesn't have Excel's number
Leader Spreadsheets were the shock troops that started the last great revolution. That's not the case now: while Google Spreadsheets - not even in public beta yet, remember - should be a better collaborative tool than full-blown Excel, it is at best an...
[June 6, 2006, 17:35]
Google Spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel
Talkback More importantly, since Google bought up Writely which already supports OpenDocument, when can we expect Google Spreadsheets to support OpenDocument? .xls in not one format but many, which one did Google try?
[June 6, 2006, 19:31]
Google Spreadsheets: a first look review
Reviews Once you name the spreadsheet you're working on, or right after you import an XLS file from your computer, Google Spreadsheets saves your file. Google Spreadsheets: resembles a very early Excel, or Lotus 1-2-3.
[June 7, 2006, 12:35]
Google Spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel
News The launch of Google Spreadsheets puts the search engine in even more heated competition with Microsoft, whose desktop-based Excel spreadsheet program is a standard office tool. Google Spreadsheets, which will go live on Tuesday as part of Google...
[June 6, 2006, 9:10]
Google Docs & Spreadsheets review
Reviews Rather than having to clunkily email ourselves a file of a story we were working on, we just uploaded the text to Google Docs & Spreadsheets to make after-hours tweaks. Spreadsheets imports XLS, ODS and comma-separated files, and exports your work...
[November 28, 2006, 8:26]
Google brings Writely and Spreadsheets together
News The company launched a beta version of Google Docs & Spreadsheets on Wednesday. The free program lets people create, manage and share documents and spreadsheets on the Web. The program enables people to collaborate online in real time, use a...
[October 12, 2006, 12:10]
