Do you know how to manage the data in your company? Clues to overcome addiction to Excel sheets
We live in an economy in which more and more data surrounds us. Any decision that we have to make at work involves analyzing a series of variables and these variables are becoming more and more and more complex. An offer to a customer, the need to expand the workforce, assess the profitability of a product or service or a line of business ... are challenges that companies face in their day to day. And taking an erroneous decision can have very serious consequences in the present and future of the company.
To help answer this need, for many years companies have turned to spreadsheets, where Microsoft Excel has been the undisputed leader. But there comes a time when the spreadsheet is no longer the right tool, and sometimes it is hard to see and it is often very difficult to make the decision to solve it. What symptoms indicate that you should consider adopting a more appropriate tool? - Time: you spend a lot of time to pass data to Excel sheets to be able to control different areas of the company.
- Complexity: the Excel sheets that you use only know how to modify you, because they are full of formulas that nobody else (and sometimes even you) knows. That brings us back to the previous point: if only you are able to enter data or modify Excel, more and more percentage of your day is geared towards that task.
- Size of your monitor: It may sound like a joke, but one of the most common reasons to change to a larger monitor is because the Excel sheets are growing and do not fit in your current monitor. And if I am "Excelladicto", how do I get over it?Microsoft (yes, the same company that is behind Excel) is betting very seriously on a product for data analysis in companies: Microsoft Power BI. This tool, free for the needs of many SMEs, allows a much more advanced level of analysis of information but without the need for high investments.
Microsoft Power BI allows you to create dashboards to analyze company information in a convenient and fast way.Instead of manually passing data, it is able to read information from the management tools or even from Internet pages. You do not need to change the management application, because the data is already there. With a few mouse clicks, we can select those parameters that interest us to draw conclusions about elements such as customers, products, zones, commercials ... crossing them by the criteria we want. From Artáiz Asesoría Tecnológica we invite you to know this tool and, if you wish, we will create the dashboards that will help you analyze the information and make the appropriate decisions based on your data.
To help answer this need, for many years companies have turned to spreadsheets, where Microsoft Excel has been the undisputed leader. But there comes a time when the spreadsheet is no longer the right tool, and sometimes it is hard to see and it is often very difficult to make the decision to solve it. What symptoms indicate that you should consider adopting a more appropriate tool? - Time: you spend a lot of time to pass data to Excel sheets to be able to control different areas of the company.
- Complexity: the Excel sheets that you use only know how to modify you, because they are full of formulas that nobody else (and sometimes even you) knows. That brings us back to the previous point: if only you are able to enter data or modify Excel, more and more percentage of your day is geared towards that task.
- Size of your monitor: It may sound like a joke, but one of the most common reasons to change to a larger monitor is because the Excel sheets are growing and do not fit in your current monitor. And if I am "Excelladicto", how do I get over it?Microsoft (yes, the same company that is behind Excel) is betting very seriously on a product for data analysis in companies: Microsoft Power BI. This tool, free for the needs of many SMEs, allows a much more advanced level of analysis of information but without the need for high investments.
Microsoft Power BI allows you to create dashboards to analyze company information in a convenient and fast way.Instead of manually passing data, it is able to read information from the management tools or even from Internet pages. You do not need to change the management application, because the data is already there. With a few mouse clicks, we can select those parameters that interest us to draw conclusions about elements such as customers, products, zones, commercials ... crossing them by the criteria we want. From Artáiz Asesoría Tecnológica we invite you to know this tool and, if you wish, we will create the dashboards that will help you analyze the information and make the appropriate decisions based on your data.
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