Microsoft Excel has many advantages...
- Perfectly tailored to your tasks.
- Works and has proven itself - for years.
- Inexpensive and safe investment, because Excel is a core product from Microsoft, one of the largest software manufacturers in the world.
- Comprehensible thanks to cell formulas.
- Highly complex logic feasible.
- Flexible: the specialist department can expand the solution independently.
- Accepted by the users. They are productive in the proven processes.
Therefore, the digitalization of controlling should not be continued purely with Excel.
Is a browser-based reporting system the silver bullet?
Principle:
- Data is moved to a central database.
- Output takes place in the browser.
Advantage: The database eliminates the 3 disadvantages of Excel.
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Error-prone
The database ensures 100% data quality. -
Excel chaos
The database provides exactly the same data to everyone. -
Operational risk
Logic is centrally stored in the database, where IT professionals are responsible for maintenance.
Disadvantage: The browser eliminates many advantages of Excel:
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Perfectly tailored to your tasks.
If you buy a ready-made system, you'll have to change the way you work. -
Works and is proven
Every new development has teething problems, and can also miss the point. Never touch a running system. -
Inexpensive and investment-secure
The system is based on a web platform that may become obsolete in the future. Switching to a different platform will then be expensive. -
Transparent
There are no cell formulas. Only a developer knows the logic. -
Highly complex logic feasible
The new system cannot replace the powerful Excel 100%. -
Flexible: The department can independently expand the solution.
Software developers are required.
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Accepted by users. They are productive in established processes.
Users have to get used to the new system. New processes first have to be introduced. Training may be necessary.
LeanMIS offers a better reporting system!
LeanMIS combines the advantages of a database and Excel:
- Data moves to the central database. See above for advantages.
- Output is not in the browser, but in Microsoft Excel. See above for advantages.
With Microsoft Excel, LeanMIS has a future-proof foundation and enables the integration of web-based BI systems, such as the leading Microsoft Power BI.
USP: Reuse of proven Excel files.