Supporting your growing business

Here’s a situation we run into with our client. Someone builds a model in Excel and it works great. Time goes by and the business grows. That single workbook gets copied for the new customer/division/business unit. Quite a bit of manual work is needed to make it work...

Don’t Be Bound by a Sluggish System!

Our client had a 15 year old program that uses Excel for the user interface and Access to store the data. The company is expanding and the program was running slow and running out the space. We migrated the data from Access to SQL Server. This effectively removes the...

Will Excel go away?

I was recently asked whether Excel was going away. Now, I’m not a Microsoft mind reader but… here’s why I think Excel is here for a long while. Excel is too easy to use for it to go away. Most people can create a spreadsheet that reflects their business needs. That’s...

Franklin Knows Best

For the want of an audited formula the report was inaccurate,For the want of an accurate report money was lost,For the want of money the company was lost,For the want of a company the jobs were lost,For the want of jobs the economy was lost,And all for the want of an...

Adding integrity to an Excel based quote process

We have a client who needed to track sales quotes, who did them, how much, the status, etc. They were using Excel and emailing the files to each other. They liked the layout they were using, it was just too hard to keep track of all the quotes. Because everyone...

Merging Inventory Lists

Here’s how we resolved a recent customer’s project. Customer’s Current Situation – The client receives updated inventory lists from a variety of customers. They need to be reviewed and validated before uploading into the client ‘system. They had to first move...