Google Sheets > Excel
Please share whatever drug you’re on with the class.
I think Excel will be unbeatable as an offline spreadsheet application for many years, if a competitor ever appears.
Now, if what you're looking for is not offline spreadsheets, but a tabular interface that can be messed around in JS, with an API integration, Sheets is an excellent product that fills Excel's niche but in a connected system.
disclaimer: I haven't touched much of office 365's online part, but am under the impression scripting with cloud services is not the direction MS is going for.
It absofuckinglutely is the direction they're going for. MS Flow, Teams and Sharepoint integration, upgrades to simultaneous-editing-documents-in-the-browser... the main problem is that they're trying to go too big too quickly which is causing hiccups especially from MS Teams, and also that anyone that doesn't use Excel seriously is already on Google Sheets with no real reason to migrate.
Edit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel?v...
But once you go beyond that, all, as we’re both saying, it’s not even a conversation. And anyone who is trying to argue against Excel on its merits as a power app (no pun intended) is on something or not arguing in good faith.
(O365 has improved a lot but I still think GSuite feels faster. But I don’t hate Office Online or whatever it is called.)
Why are you poo-pooing on the tech?
Edit: They also use Excel, btw. It’s just the right tool for the right job.
I've never seen anything remotely impressive from a cpa in public practice in terms of excel usage or high level thinking tbh
Everyone leaves, they have no partners and it’s all run by college grads?
Just thinking through the premise of: Big4 folks arent capable of high level thinking that’s why they leave for “greener pastures”, implies that the “greener pasture” employees are less competent than the Big4. Otherwise, why would they hire folks from Big4?
An argument could be made that no organization should use Excel/Sheets for anything with "real" consequences.
I agree that Excel is stronger than Sheets in some regards, but Sheets with App Script and a little JavaScript knowledge goes a loooong way towards empowering people to build useful things collaboratively.
SQL > Google Sheets, Excel for large data.
- Depending on which implementation you're using, it has a pretty anemic set of built-in functions.
- Building calculations on top of other calculations is trivially easy in Excel and basically not available in SQL.
- SQL forces you into a tabular mindset - Excel is often used that way but it's more freeform and you can have individual calculations that don't map to a particular schema.
- Excel has much better UX in terms of visually representing what you're building as you build it, where SQL doesn't have any real interactivity in terms of building queries.
Your product does look cool, but I think it's very much addressing specifically the "Excel / CSV as database" use case and less the analysis side.