A chat over a pint recently reminded me that many businesses still have lots of Excel-based processes, including reporting, that are inefficient and prone to error.
In many cases highly qualified and expensive “Excel jockeys” are spending most of their time manipulating data. Automation would let them be their job title – “business analysts” - who add proper value to the business.
Sometimes it’s just a matter of replacing Excel with a database or OLAP system, depending on the volumes of data, or writing some macros or VBA. Automation also provides the key benefit of slashing the risks of error that so often plague manual Excel manipulation.
What Excel-based processes are desperately seeking automation in your business?
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