Escape the clutches of ‘Excel Hell’

Show me the way out of Excel hell

Common challenges

Extreme complexity
As the complexity within your business grows, Excel starts to hit its limits, slowing down your reporting and stunting your business’s growth.
- Spreadsheets have limitations
  While spreadsheets are powerful tools for simple calculations, they’re not well suited to complex multivariate calculations that must ingest and make sense of different data sources. This limitation greatly reduces your ability to perform intricate analysis and harms your ability to maximise benefits from your internal data.
- Your business is at risk of being overwhelmed
  When your tools limit what is possible with your data, you give up a lot in terms of opportunity cost. You complexity is what defines you, and removing parts of it may lead to ignoring things that are uniquely essential. Competitors that can harness their complexity more efficiently will make better decisions and you’re likely to be left behind.
- A dynamic, functional database solution
  Our offering is industrial in its scale and can provide an immense amount of computational agility that allows for highly intricate and accurate analysis. The end result? You get the insights you need to stay ahead of the rest.
Version control
- v59.3 Final (Final Final)
  We all know the struggles of passing spreadsheets back and forth when you’re trying to pull data from different people and different divisions who are all on different timelines. It creates a hellish task for the unfortunate person trying to finalise the spreadsheet. No-one wants to spend their time endlessly reconciling figures and trying to bring order to chaos!
- Unwanted errors and omissions
  Challenging version control processes invite human errors and can lead to omissions and mistakes that don’t get picked up until it’s too late. Miscommunication and misunderstandings reign supreme and it requires a lot of duplicated effort to track down mistakes, correct them in multiple places and come to some sort of comfort regarding the accuracy of numbers.
- A single source of truth
  Escape the hell of changing formats, timelines and redoing work. Instead, use a tool that enables true real-time collaboration.
Transparency
- Lack of granularity
  Within an Excel spreadsheet, you may have one level of detail available to you if you’re willing to parse a complex formula and dig for an answer. But often this friction and limitation means you can’t go much beyond the surface level. This lack of granularity greatly degrades your ability to glean valuable insights and results in sub-optimal decisions that are made from one or more levels of abstraction too high.
- Incorrect insights drawn
  When you don’t have the level of granularity you need to truly understand a specific number, you can easily draw an incorrect insight or make an incomplete assumption based on what you see on the surface level. This creates confusion around true root causes and harms your ability to make truly informed decisions. You have the data you need, but you’re just not harnessing it because it gets lost in its own complexity.
- Drill-down transparency
  With IBM Planning Analytics / TM1, Cubewise can give you infinite levels of drill-down transparency at the click of a button. Instantly dig into any number to understand exactly where it comes from at any level of complexity. This ability provides objective proof that can be used to shape strategy and operations – and inform decision-making.

Spreadsheets have limitations
While spreadsheets are powerful tools for simple calculations, they’re not well suited to complex multivariate calculations that must ingest and make sense of different data sources. This limitation greatly reduces your ability to perform intricate analysis and harms your ability to maximise benefits from your internal data.
Your business is at risk of being overwhelmed
When your tools limit what is possible with your data, you give up a lot in terms of opportunity cost. You complexity is what defines you, and removing parts of it may lead to ignoring things that are uniquely essential. Competitors that can harness their complexity more efficiently will make better decisions and you’re likely to be left behind.
A dynamic, functional database solution
Our offering is industrial in its scale and can provide an immense amount of computational agility that allows for highly intricate and accurate analysis. The end result? You get the insights you need to stay ahead of the rest.

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