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 [...]

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 [...]

Forecasting your carbon footprint?

Access Accounts were the first to launch a module to allow you to account for your carbon emissions.
It uses the carbon tables from DEFRA and the Carbon Trust to calculate a companys carbon output and the idea is then you can use this knowledge to try to find areas for improvement.
I saw the launch at this years [...]

Having trouble with Excel 2007 commands?

It seems there is a lot of concern amongst people moving to Excel 2007 that they cant find the commands under the menus they are used to
Microsoft, unsuprisingly, have done lots of work to make sure the upgrade is a smooth as possible. After all they spent over £1bn on R&D for this new ribbon [...]

Question: Have you been trained to build a financial model?

Forecasts get reviewed by management, boards, investors and potential investors. They drive the decisions that those parties take with regards the future direction of the company. Yet amazingly there is no industry standard for how to produce a cashflow forecast.
I find this quite incredible.
When you buy an Accounting System, the software is designed with rules [...]