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الجمعة، 8 نوفمبر 2013

An Assessment Of The Excel Consulting

By Alyce Powell


Microsoft has been developing a number of applications used for personal and commercial use. Excel is one of these applications. It is a spreadsheet application used for manipulation of data. Data is entered into the cells. Mathematical operations are done on the data depending on the problems at hand. Excel consulting bridges the gap between the software tools and various business needs. This is mainly for the corporate and business world needs.

The application was first introduced for personal use many years ago. By then, the platform had not been developed and designed very well. It was operated by issuing a series of commands typed at the various command boxes. It grew to become one of the moist used spreadsheet application programs. Today, it is widely used both for commercial and personal applications.

The application has several tools that most of spreadsheet applications boost. There are vertical and horizontal grids. The vertical grids intersect with the horizontal grids to form cells where data is entered. The vertical grids form the columns while the horizontal form the rows. Once the data has been entered into these cells, it can be manipulated by the use of functions and tools provided. Advanced arithmetic operations are done through the customization of macros.

The macros are special commands in the software that allows them to customize them according to the problems at hand. These commands are built on the existing functions. They provide the data and financial analysts with different ways of handling the problems in question. The engineers may also use these functions to develop line and bar graphs. Other pictorial presentations may also be generated using these functions.

The application has been redesigned a couple of times. The older versions which used a command based interface have been overhauled slowly and replace by a graphical interface. This boosted the performance and the problems that can be handled by the application. It also ensures that the group of computer users and engineers using the software application keep at par with the technological changes.

Sometimes the data to be used in Excel has to be exported. This mainly happens in occasions where the process of reconstructing the data models to be used is very lengthy and complicated. The data source is linked with the function within the application. The linking ensures a continuous streaming of data between the two points. It ensures that any updates on the data sources are reflected on the Excel files.

Most of company managers rely on the information produced by the application in the process of strategic decision making. This means that the data processing operations have to produce very accurate information. The data integrity also has to be protected. The information is stored in various locations. These too have to be secured to ensure that the information is not tampered with or altered.

The internet has expended the scope of data processing operations. With the use of internet, information can be easily shared by different organizations. Excel consulting has been eased since the data can be uploaded and downloaded with ease. Special security measures have to be put in place to protect the data on transit.




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