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How to Mitigate Spreadsheet Errors
Spreadsheet errors continue to be a pervasive issue across businesses worldwide, often resulting in significant financial losses, operational disruptions, and lasting reputational damage. Despite their widespread usage for critical business functions, spreadsheets...
When Excel becomes a masterpiece—thousands of tiny cells, who knew spreadsheets could make art?!
There are some unique ways people use Excel, and one of the most surprising is making art. Most people think of Excel as a tool for numbers, charts, and data. But some artists have turned it into a blank canvas. They use the rows and columns, simple shapes, colors,...
How Many Spreadsheets Does an Enterprise Actually Have?
Spreadsheets, predominantly Microsoft Excel files, are ubiquitous across businesses of all sizes and industries. They serve as critical tools for data analysis, financial reporting, decision-making, and much more. However, despite their importance and extensive use,...
What’s New in SpreadsheetWeb – May 2025
In our latest SpreadsheetWeb release, we've placed special emphasis on enhancing user interface (UI) features to improve the overall user experience. Let's dive into some of the exciting updates! Enhanced Grid Controls We've introduced significant improvements...
When Excel Files Become Liabilities: Understanding Spreadsheet Data Breaches
When Excel files proliferate without governance, data security risks multiply significantly. Sensitive information in spreadsheets frequently reside on unsecured personal devices, unauthorized cloud storage platforms, or shared through unapproved communication...
Why Businesses Revert to Spreadsheets After Trying Specialized Software
How often have you come across marketing slogans that say, “Don’t use Excel for [X], use our product instead”—with [X] being just about any business process? This type of marketing highlights a broader trend: countless software platforms have emerged precisely because...
Building a Custom Application with SpreadsheetWeb API and Claude AI
In today’s fast-paced development world, leveraging the power of AI and low-code tools can drastically speed up the process of building data-driven applications. In this article, we’ll walk through a comprehensive example of how Claude AI was used to generate a custom...
Enterprise Spreadsheet Use Cases Through the Lens of Security, Data Management, and Compliance
Spreadsheets are among the most universally adopted software tools in enterprises worldwide, thanks to their ease of use, flexibility, and powerful analytical capabilities. They have become deeply embedded in organizational processes ranging from basic data tracking...
Spreadsheet Sprawl – Uncontrolled Proliferation of Spreadsheets across the Organization: Challenges, Risks, and Solutions.
Excel spreadsheets are ubiquitous in organizations of all sizes, used for everything from financial calculations to contact lists. Over time, however, a sprawl of Excel files across employee devices and shared drives can develop. This “spreadsheet sprawl” refers to...