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Crespo: Microsoft Excel will still be actively used in ten years
“I have a prediction that Excel will still be here in five years. And there is a good reason. You can keep that. In five years, Excel will still be there. And in 10 years, Excel will still be there.”
Evans: Every enterprise software company is unbundling Oracle, Gmail, or Excel
“Basically every enterprise software company for the sake of argument is unbundling Oracle, Gmail, or Excel.”
Sivulka calls Microsoft Excel the most important software ever invented
“The spreadsheet in Excel is the most important software to have ever been invented.”
Evans: Current AI models still cannot replace existing software like Excel
“But it still can't actually replace any of the software you use. It can't replace Excel, it can't.”
Wickramasekara: Curing cancer with Excel is worse than dev without version control
“They're literally trying to cure cancer using Excel. This is the equivalent of one of the companies you work at building software without version control. It's honestly probably a little worse, actually.”
Palmer: "Download to Excel" was the most common feature in all BI tools
“The most common feature in all BI products was the button that said download to Excel.”
Quants and heavy Excel users make the best low-code automation users
“Typically we see people that are quants or particularly useful with spreadsheets and can build heavy Excel models are a really good tray user.”
Stancil: Technical data skills are learnable, analytical thinking is harder to teach
“They're gonna need SQL skills, they're gonna, they might need Python or R skills, they'll need something like Excel but those things are learnable, whereas I think, like, the way of thinking is often harder to teach.”
Wickramasekara: Life science research still runs on paper, email, and Excel
“This is an industry that runs on paper, email, and Excel, and it's something that touches everyone.”
Deighton: Users export data to Excel only when lacking better software alternatives
“It's not that they don't want to, ah, you know, it's not that they desire export to Excel for some fundamental reason, they make good with that when they have no better alternative.”
numberFire handles part of its predictive data modeling using Excel macros
“It's done on one hand, a lot of Python into R on one hand. Another part of it is actually done in Excel in a series of macros done by our chief analyst.”
Sumo Logic has 150 employees and backing from Greylock, Sequoia, Accel
“Just real background, you can see where some of us came from are about a 150 people. We're backed out of the gate by Greylock, and then we just added, ah, Sequoia recently, and Excel, and Sutter Hill, and some other companies as investors.”