Excel in Business Intelligence and Controlling

Throughout many years there were many attempts to diminish usage of table calculators by business intelligence vendors in reporting. We’ve just posted article Excel and controlling about some interesting information.

Reporting toward external customers like stock, owners, tax, regulators, auditors and others or internal reporting is one of main role of controlling, more in article about controlling. Main task of controlling is to prepare reports out of accounting data for management in understandable and custom formats. Preparation of many types of reports are made in Excel, which is excellent platform for table data preparation and calculation.

What was stated at begining trials were many but Excel is still widely present in controlling and reporting process. On following site: http://www.paloinsider.com/palo/paloexcel/gartner-waves-white-flag-on-excel-in-bi-2/ is interesting article about acceptance of Excel by Gartner in Business Intelligence industry.

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