On Fri June 16 2006 22:11, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Question:
>
> I want to be able to analyze with charts monthly data.
> Up to present our company has been putting the data into Excel
> Workbooks on a monthly basis.
> Since I have taken over this job (just this month) I have been
> putting the data in Calc.
>
> As I see it I have 3 choices. But maybe there are more. I would like
> to know what people suggest.
>
> 1. Maybe I could create an master workbook of sorts and somehow pull
> data from each months workbook to create these charts, etc.
>
> 2. I could take all the data from each months workbook and import it
> into the OOo database and query that data in the master workbook.
>
> 3. I could put all the data into some other database which I would
> also query from the master workbook.
>
> On a monthly basis I would say there are some 500 lines of data
> crossing about 10 columns.
Maybe I missed the replies, but you have not really mention any criteria which
would influence the decision (or to prompt other options).
Is the raw data easily importable ?
Are you the only one dealing with this data ?
How long will you be the only one dealing with it ?
What other data analysis is relevant ?
What is necessary in terms of backup ?
etc.
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