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It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP

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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just goes to show that a spreadsheet is a very powerful tool.๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could run empires on the back of a spreadsheet.

You absolutely shouldn't, it's nearly the worst option you have available, but you could.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's not the worst option available, it might not be the cleanest solution, but it does offer a level of flexibility if you have an in-depth understanding of key operational (or financial) business processes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shift+F9.. annnnd, the data is gone

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not if there is a BACKUP folder with daily copies of all your spreadsheets.

Sifting through the backups is so much fun when you're trying to find when a particular issue started.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Excel is indeed super powerful. I've seen firsthand what they power in multiple Fortune 500 companies, and usually for a lot of critical tasks. It doesn't surprise me in the least that this company was using it for finances.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

My backup is ctrl+z ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's better than just text files or word I guess

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why I specified "nearly" the worst. It can absolutely get the job done and has basically every tool you'd need to do the job, but it's pretty much the worst amongst the "this will do everything you need" options.

My thought process was abacus < pen & paper < text file < spreadsheet < database solutions

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But a spreadsheet can function like a database. ๐Ÿคฃ