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How Excel can unlock the data in your business
How Excel can unlock the data in your business Does a page full of numbers (or even a table full of text) have you reaching for the headache pills? Then Excel formulas might be a cheaper and healthier alternative… Even if spreadsheets don’t bring you out in a cold...
How a database could save your business (management included…)
How a database could save your business (management included…) So who needs a database, anyway? If you run a business and you’re not already using one the answer is probably ‘You do’. Don’t believe me? Then think about your everyday operations. Every day, for example,...
VBA – a Very Beneficial Addition?
VBA – a Very Beneficial Addition? Just kidding – VBA actually stands for Visual Basic for Applications. And yes, it’s a programming language. In this case one you can use with the Microsoft Office suite. So – why would you need to learn a programming language? How...
Why you need a database (and the odd socks syndrome…)
Why your business needs a database and how we can make it as simple as sorting socks for you! Ever had one of those days when you can’t find the other sock? Plenty of people have. One firm even offers a selection of socks that are all different. So you don’t need to...
The Rise – And Rise – in Excel Training
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft’s premier spreadsheet product, has taken over the world of business. Other rival products have fallen by the wayside. We did shed a tear for Lotus 1-2-3 when it was discontinued a couple of years ago; it was one of our favourite products to...
Tableau v Power BI
The War of Words Heats Up This week Tableau has come out on the offensive against Power BI with a presentation entitled “10 ways Power BI Falls Short”. Aimed at educating IT and procurement executives, the presentation seeks to explain why companies should spend $999...
Learning in the Digital Age – is Paper Dead?
Despite the initial enthusiasm that greeted the advent of e-books, sales for the UK’s five biggest publishers have started to fall back, according to a report in the Bookseller magazine (dropping 2.4%, to 47.9m units in 2015). Things, however, are different in the...
Better Business Intelligence for Better Business
Microsoft’s business intelligence platform has gone through a number of transformations over the past 15 or so years. Initially BI was partnered with SharePoint, then with SQL whilst other components were introduced into Excel. There were flashes of impressive...
Flipped Learning – Flipping Marvellous!
Flipped learning is an instructional method that has had firm acceptance amongst the education sector. The basic tenet of Flipped Learning is that instruction is given on an individual basis prior to training in a group space (which for corporate training has...
Power BI: From Insights to Action
Just over a year ago, on July 24th 2015, Microsoft released its new cloud-based business intelligence solution Power BI Service. Since its inception, the Power BI Service has gone from strength to strength – over 200,000 organisations are now using Power BI – and...
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