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debo_ ◴[] No.46196982[source]
> I'm sure every organisation has hundreds if not thousands of Excel sheets tracking important business processes that would be far better off as a SaaS app.

Far better off for who? People constantly dismiss spreadsheets, but in many cases, they are more powerful, more easily used by the people who have the domain knowledge required to properly implement calculations or workflow, and are more or less universally accessible.

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nesarkvechnep ◴[] No.46197020[source]
I’m yet to see a spreadsheet workflow successfully replaced by something else.
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1. tehjoker ◴[] No.46198688[source]
maybe the strategy in those cases is to augment the core spreadsheet with tools that can unit test it and broadcast changes etc