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In business, strategic planning is essential and requires valid information in order to make key decisions. Choosing the right tools for inputting, tracking, analyzing and storing data will help ...

Fifteen years ago, I logged my concerns about the limitations of Excel. Have we overcome these problems? Has the downside of spreadsheets been reduced? A deeper look sees progress in some areas - and ...