Similarly dull, but I bought a Henry recently after years of having a Dyson Animal and the difference is night and day. It’s vastly less convenient but the suction of the Henry is on another level.
all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Absolutely wild brand activation tactics from the Linux marketing team.
Because huge swathes of UK housing is hundreds of years old and doesn’t have driveways or even nearby on-road parking so cars can’t be charged at home, and the charging infrastructure that does exist is insufficient or inconvenient.
It’s nothing to do with fear, it’s down to cost, practicality, experience and security.
The one thing these people are not afraid of is change. Every senior management resource within every medium to large business wants to implement change.
As a data consultant, I would say those companies already do question the process, and have done for decades.
Yes there are countless situations where a dedicated system or database could and should replace Excel, but there are just as many scenarios where Excel is ideal, and swapping out a spreadsheet for what would be potentially tens of separate applications across the business, or one absurdly expensive behemoth, to perform tasks that could be done rapidly and clearly in Excel is neither practical nor economically viable for most companies. A spreadsheet is perfect for plenty of situations.
My job is literally to help these companies move to appropriate database solutions, often transitioning away from Excel. But there’s no getting around that a spreadsheet solves (often simple) problems that are impractical with other tools. You can move a company to a supplier’s sector-specific solution and solve huge numbers of issues, but unless that solution exactly meets every aspect of the business requirements, there’s always going to be a fallback and it’s often Excel, for better or worse.
I can only assume anyone still asking the question “is Excel really that much better than the alternatives?” lacks exposure to Power Query and its prevalence in business.
Similarly dull, but I bought a Henry recently after years of having a Dyson Animal and the difference is night and day. It’s vastly less convenient but the suction of the Henry is on another level.