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Gurfinkel: CFOs with 15 years in Excel won't adopt web-based FP&A
“You are a CFO of a 200 employees company. You use Excel for 15 years to run your finance. You will never leave Excel. So all these web-based FP&A solution, FP&A web-based financial system, you will never Even think to move from Excel to the web.”
Gurfinkel: Datarails beat competitors in every deal due to connectivity
“And when we came with such a compelling and impressive technology with this capability that we beat them in every deal. In every deal, we beat them because they couldn't even get close to what we offer with this connectivity with Excel and database.”
Hastings: Traditional month-end accounting workbooks lose vital business context
“All of that data is lost because that work is done usually in manual spreadsheets that lives on someone's laptop, and it's done a little bit differently month over month. These are called month-close workbooks, which are always an Excel sheet living on, on som…”
Gurfinkel: CIOs want to replace Excel, but finance teams insist on it
“If you speak with the CIO of the company, you speak with the business, the typically business user, they use Excel, but their dream is to get rid of Excel, right?... Finance people want to stay with Excel because it's more just a tool. This is part of their, e…”
Product managers must manually prove feature value in Excel before writing code
“I now tell my product people, I've been saving it for a long time. Basically, you will not send anything To development until you will show a customer that experienced this value without the actual product. Hack it in Excel and Power BI. Be the person for them…”
Woollen: Non-programmers analyze data through playful experimentation, not linear pipelines
“No one opens up Excel and it's like, here are the next 20 things I'm going to go do. They just play around.”
Mal: Planning software vendors replacing Excel succeed mainly in enterprise
“The vendors that have done well, you know, extremely well in the market where they replace Excel have gone more to the enterprise segment of the market, larger companies.”
Gurfinkel: Did Not Know What FP&A Was When Founding Datarails
“When we founded in the company in in in I honestly, I didn't even know what is FP&A. The solution or the concept or the technology that we developed. Well, nothing related to finance. It was related to business users that use Excel.”
Boesch: 60% of new restaurant software users migrate from paper and Excel
“There's still, it's still, like, 60% of people come up from paper and excel, still.”
Mal: IBM discontinued Clarity Systems' product after acquisition, opening market for Vena
“When IBM acquired the company where we worked, they discontinued the product that we then re-entered the market with our own approach, so we fill that void in a sense. Their product, the company that was sold to IBM, had an Excel look and feel capability withi…”