> These administration and business management tasks can be easily done by developing custom software, and these are the reasons to ditch Excel.<p>Easily? Yeah, right, after you pay \d{5,} dollars, after years of development, you get something that <i>hopefully</i> enables to run your business more effective.<p>Of course, we also try to get from Excel in business processes that require data consistency and automation and stuff, but first of all: <i>Someone</i> was <i>able</i> to write that excel and show us actually what kind of data/calculations is important to them.<p>I think excel is here to stay along with the email. Article reads like: "use this instead of email" (and buy from us). Everything has their place under the sun, but excel is as good as it is bad.