Seems like an expected outcome, as general purpose tool give way to specialised little tools that can be in the cloud somewhere.
I'd be interested in the thoughts of finance professionals (and others who depend on manipulating lots of numerical data). Oh, and Bob Frankston, who helped invent the spreadhseet. :) Udhay https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-using-excel-finance-chiefs-tell-staffs-1511346601 Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs Ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting hasn’t kept up, CFOs say By Tatyana Shumsky Nov. 22, 2017 5:30 a.m. ET Adobe Inc.’s finance chief Mark Garrett says his team struggles keeping track of which jobs have been filled at the software company. The process can take days and requires finance staff to pull data from disparate systems that house financial and human-resources information into Microsoft Corp.’s Excel spreadsheets. From there they can see which groups are hiring and how salary spending affects the budget. <snip> -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
