Despite spreadsheets being fundamental in the data space, visibility and trust are key challenges. To address this need, Alation Inc. launched Alation Connected Sheets, which incorporates data ...

Coefficient, a no-code solution that allows businesses to connect real-time data with spreadsheets, today announced it has raised $6.7 million in seed funding led by Foundation Capital. S28 Capital ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aleksandra Bal covers indirect tax and technology developments. Despite the growing presence of AI and large language models (LLMs ...

When official systems can't support everyday workflows, employees turn to spreadsheets — creating "shadow spreadsheets" that ...

If you have lots of spreadsheets you would like to analyze, but unfortunately don’t have the time to invest in trawling through each one to any great depth, but known they contain a wealth of valuable ...

It’s 7:30 a.m. and the CFO’s inbox is already overflowing. The first task of the day: reconcile data from three different systems - sales, payroll, and procurement. Excel spreadsheets must be ...

As a data-science librarian at the University of California, San Diego, Stephanie Labou has seen her share of spreadsheet horror stories. The most haunting was a table of hand-entered GPS coordinates.

My company has been working with two organizations that use large, unwieldy Excel spreadsheets to manage some of their most critical business processes. These “informal systems” (which I wrote about ...

Spreadsheets are a powerful, multipurpose tool used by businesspeople, analysts, data scientists, and technologists to collect, integrate, cleanse, analyze, and present data. They became popular in ...