One Version of the Truth

Of course the guys at Rugged Logic always welcome new entrants into their space… that market zone we might call “Rugged Excel“, where vendors are increasingly aiming to provide enterprise-ready solutions that also retain the user’s ability to create and model in everyone’s favourite envirionment, Excel.
So hats off to Jedox, that I first read about [...]

Do you reforecast on a monthly basis? Most companies don’t, but would like to…

Most companies don’t reforecast on a monthly basis because the “Forecasting” tools are not connected to their “Budgetting” tools.
The human brain couldn’t possibly make sensible judgments about hundreds of lines of data.  To get a sensible picture of the options for the future the executive team has to work at a level of abstraction.
In other [...]

Do we really need to quit our spreadsheets?

Ok, so we’re all agreed that for ad-hoc analysis Excel is the tool of choice, and that at the other extreme of a corporate application we need the ruggedness of a software application… the problem as I see it is that accountants don’t usually start out intending to write huge spreadsheets… workbooks just grow over [...]

Database vs Excel – Is there a middle ground?

There is no doubt that there are “two camps”, IBM, SAP and Oracle on the one hand, and Rugged Logic and Sage on the other. However, I am really not sure whether there is a “middle ground”.
In reality the difference between a corporate database solution such as Adaptive Planning and an Excel based software solution [...]