Excel is not a system; it cannot handle multi-person collaboration, permission control, or process flow.
Excel is not a system; it cannot handle multi-person collaboration, permission control, or process flow. This article draws on our practical experience serving more than 3,000 enterprise clients.
Ten people maintaining ten Excel files, with accounts not reconciling at month-end, is the norm; version chaos and accidental deletions or modifications are nearly impossible to trace.
The hidden cost of Excel lies in manual labor: repetitive data entry, manual reconciliation, and rework from errors—over a year, this far exceeds the cost of a system.
Low-code tools have greatly lowered the barrier to systematizing Excel; business staff can build simple applications themselves.
There is no standard answer to digital transformation, but there is one iron rule: first get one scenario running and produce results, then talk about rolling it out comprehensively.