Spreadsheets vs. Web Apps

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Your employees waste 2 hours daily searching and gathering information to do their jobs. Many businesses still depend on spreadsheets, and this time drain represents just the tip of the iceberg. Companies that grow rapidly find spreadsheet alternatives become essential rather than optional. Excel spreadsheets handle simple data management tasks well. However, they hit…

For many businesses, spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Zoho Sheet, and Smartsheet, are the go-to tools for managing data and workflow. They are convenient, familiar, and seemingly inexpensive, often with free plan options, and are used for managing projects, tracking inventory, managing finances, CRM data, managing process workflow,…

Web applications offer a number of advantages over traditional spreadsheet-based data management systems. First, the obvious: web applications are much more scalable and can support a larger number of users simultaneously. Web applications support real-time updates and collaborative infrastructure. They offer additional features and analysis. But, maybe even more important…

At its core, database development is the process of coming to a better understanding of how mission-critical data will actually be stored once it has been automated. It’s about taking those important (but time-consuming) menial processes and turning them into something more efficient, more technology-driven and more forward-thinking than ever…

Many small businesses who have been using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as databases for their organizations, or who have been using them to manage information in general, have found the need to access those insights from anywhere, at any time, on any device. This has proven to be something of a…

A very good friend of mine, who just happens to own a small winery here in New Hampshire, stopped in to see me this week.  It was a friendly visit, but as usual we got talking about all things technology and of course, wine.  Knowing that Keene Systems develops custom solutions for common business…

In a business environment, data takes many forms. Before the advent of computers, data was all captured in a world of paper. But in 1979, the world’s first spreadsheet, VisiCalc was introduced. Since there were very few computer programs at the time, people used VisiCalc not just for doing calculations…

According to one recent study, the amount of data in the world was estimated to have hit about 44 zettabytes by the beginning of 2020. By as soon as 2025, the volume of data generated each day is expected to hit 463 exabytes across the globe – something that brings with…

One of the major issues that most organizations run into when they still rely on old database systems is that by and large you’re talking about single user systems that were only ever designed to run on one computer. This may have “gotten the job done” in a previous era,…