Tracking journal articles where you work

[ggnl]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: Train
Here's another not so well guarded secret: Most of the Fortune 500 run on excel too.

in fact, there was even a thread here about it:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...keyword1=runs+on+excel

Sure for limited uses. They don't run on Excel. They all use an ERP solution.

Almost everything from our ERP system gets ported to excel before finding its way to end users. Users like to manipulate the data, and the easiest way to do it is in a spreadsheet.

 

[hellod9]

install wordpress somewhere and put the articles in it. (Your pc can run php/mysql if you install something link this: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html )

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Train

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: Train
did you read the thread?

Yes, looks like you need to reread it.

I reread it, looks like a thread full of people agreeing with me, and you being the lone (maybe there was one other) dissenter. lol

That they run their companies using ERP systems then using Excel to manipulate data that they export out for reporting?

Though the majority of good companies will use better reporting/data manipulation tools than excel.

Like I said, there's a reason you're still a developer.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: ggnl

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: Train
Here's another not so well guarded secret: Most of the Fortune 500 run on excel too.

in fact, there was even a thread here about it:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...keyword1=runs+on+excel

Sure for limited uses. They don't run on Excel. They all use an ERP solution.

Almost everything from our ERP system gets ported to excel before finding its way to end users. Users like to manipulate the data, and the easiest way to do it is in a spreadsheet.

Sure, ERP apps are horrid for reporting. That's why there are so many reporting solutions such as Hyperion, Noetix, Brio, OutlookSoft, etc...

However, to perform complex and multi-dimensional analysis, excel isn't the best solution. It's just the easiest for the normal end-user.

 

[Train]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: Train

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: Train
did you read the thread?

Yes, looks like you need to reread it.

I reread it, looks like a thread full of people agreeing with me, and you being the lone (maybe there was one other) dissenter. lol

That they run their companies using ERP systems then using Excel to manipulate data that they export out for reporting?

Though the majority of good companies will use better reporting/data manipulation tools than excel.

Like I said, there's a reason you're still a developer.

Right, because all good developers should really be managers? lol what a joke. My role includes everything a manager would do, maybe I can refer to myself as a manager. It's just a title anyways. Having a whole team under me? Check done that. Built a system from ground up from proposal to delivery? done that too. Having the authority to decide WHICH tool, if any, to use to solve a problem? Ya I've got that "manager" power too. And ive seen programmers like you come in and get laid off becuase they promise the world with this tool and that tool, and end up having crap for end of the day productivity. But I dont work in an industry that makes billions off raping medicaid by increasing its costs by double digit figures year over year, instead in the real world we actually have slim margins and competitors, and if your competitor consitently beats you to market, your out of business.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Edit:
To follow up on this I wanted to give an example: Biblioscape Server

 

[archiloco]

one word refworks or something similar to it