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By: Richard Veryard

Richard Veryard — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:59:37 +0000

Monkchips says this is silly. I think he means it is silly to blame things on Excel. Of course you make it clear that you are actually blaming things on people using Excel stupidly.

If it is silly to blame a lump of software when things go wrong, it is equally silly to credit a lump of software when things go right. But this is exactly what the big vendors do all the time.

http://rvsoftware.blogspot.com/2009/10/blame-excel.html

By: Gary Barnett

Gary Barnett — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:34:08 +0000

Neil – Thanks Man, And absolutely agree with you – Also… in the “mashup world” we should be able to take really live, genuine, up-to-the-minute data and use it in our analysis – in real time

Peter – Very happy to participate (always happy to rub shoulders with Mr W-D)

By: Peter Schooff

Peter Schooff — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:22:42 +0000

Excellent blog…would love to have you participating on the ebizQ Forum. Here’s a link: http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ebizq_forum/2009/10/what-comes-first-the-process-improvement-methodology-or-the-bpm-software.php

Please email me if interested.

By: Neil Ward-Dutton

Neil Ward-Dutton — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:14:11 +0000

“Feral data” – love it!

I think this comes down to a simple concept: provenance.
We need systems that can help us audit, validate and assure the provenance of key enterprise data. If I had $5m funding I’d love to build something to do that…

In a “mashup world” the need for this becomes even broader… mashups being MS Access (or Excel) Reloaded.