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Article: The Future of Excel
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THE FUTURE OF EXCEL: 8
Bold Predictions! features and functionality that better security is high and will might appear in Excel over the only continue to grow. next few years. On the same note, it would be Better Collaboration better to be able to define different access privileges (like Currently Excel is primarily in a database) so that different confined to just a single-user. people can access certain Yes, there are beginnings of parts of a file but not others. multi-user collaborative functionality e.g. shared Prediction #2: More robust workbooks, which don’t work and granular security. very well, and SharePoint Excel. Microsoft have had to Better Business Intelligence JEFF ROBSON play catch up in this area with To be fair, Excel has been CEO services like Google Docs, getting better in this area, but Access Analytic which were much quicker to it has really only scratched the jrobson@accessanalytic.com.au see the demand for more surface so far. Microsoft could collaborative, web based take away market share from business productivity tools. business intelligence (BI) Spreadsheets are ubiquitous vendors and ensure continued Prediction #1: Much more in modern business and upgrades for many years to functionality in this direction Microsoft’s Excel dominates come by enhancing Excel’s BI to turn Excel into a true the market. The computer multi-user tool. capabilities to include more of giant has consistently beaten the functionality other BI down each rising competitor Better Security front-ends already have. of the last 10+ years to cement its position as the At the moment security is Prediction #3: Microsoft will undisputed king of pretty weak in Excel and can develop Excel’s BI capabilities spreadsheets. be cracked relatively easily by to ensure Excel remains a key someone who knows what front-end tool for BI for the But what of the future of they’re doing. Because masses. Excel? companies store so much confidential and commercially In this forward-looking article, sensitive information in we make some bold spreadsheets, the demand for predictions and share some radical ideas about the © ACCESS ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS PTY LTD SUITE 143, LEVEL 1, 580 HAY ST, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6000 www.accessanalytic.com.au
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Better Connectivity
Device Independence Apart from Sparklines and some extra styles, very little It is still too hard for many Given the popularity of iPads has changed in charting for average users to connect Excel and other tablet devices, about 10 years. If Microsoft to a database and extract the Microsoft won’t be able to make it easy for developers to information they need. I don’t resist these markets, nor create and sell their own chart think it really needs to be that should they. They need a add-ins (see below), this could hard! product that runs natively on all change very rapidly. these mobile devices, rather So many people would find than relying on terminal Prediction #6: We will see this this feature really useful but services apps or apps that only area opened up so that users MS Query looks like it hasn’t provide 75% compatibility. can get the charts and data been touched by a developer visualisations they really for about ten years. Prediction #5: We will see MS want. Excel for the iPad and Prediction #4: We will see Android very soon. MS Access Takeover more development attention in this area to make the New Visualisations Excel’s current tables are a connection and extraction great way for keeping data in process much easier for non- Excel has some great ways of a single table – they were the IT people while also allowing visualising data in the variety single biggest improvement in IT to setup connections that of charts and diagrams Excel 2007 (in my view). users can then consume included in the software. easily. However, there are still many However they fall far short of areas where BI tools and relational databases when specialist charting packages connecting two or more tables walk all over Excel. together; ensuring records in one table match another table (referential integrity), inputting data into more than one table and reporting from more than one table. © ACCESS ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS PTY LTD SUITE 143, LEVEL 1, 580 HAY ST, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6000 www.accessanalytic.com.au
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With some relatively
minor enhancements, Excel tables Summary could take over much of the functionality that Microsoft While I don’t have a special Access has been doing with hotline to Microsoft I think SQL Server left to handle the Excel could be so much more! bigger end of town. These are just my predictions Prediction #7: Given that … please don’t think that I’ve Microsoft has not been somehow gotten my hands on putting as much effort into an alpha version of Microsoft Access, my feeling is that Excel 2020! Excel’s capabilities in this area will be enhanced to the They are just a few things that point where it can take over seem both likely and desirable from Access. So many people to me. use it like a database already anyway, why not give them a But if you know someone at few extra tools and make it Microsoft who works on Excel, official? feel free to forward a copy of the article to them. In-app Purchases Then, if they adopt some of If Apple can do it, why not my suggestions, I’ll look Microsoft? Apple have found a REALLY clever! way to generate huge revenues by making it easy for Excel Financial Modelling developers and consumers to Specialists! connect. Microsoft could do At Access Analytic, we spend a the same so that developers LOT of our day working with could sell templates, add-ins Excel and other business and other customisations right analyst tools. there inside the MS Office products. Given the ubiquitous If you have a project in this nature of Excel, there would area you’re considering, just surely be a huge market for give us a call on innovative apps for business. +61 8 6210 8500, or email us at info@accessanalytic.com.au Prediction #8: The current today! Office Marketplace will become far more iTunes-like. © ACCESS ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS PTY LTD SUITE 143, LEVEL 1, 580 HAY ST, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6000 www.accessanalytic.com.au
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