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Not just ERP, but in my experience people use Excel for everything - project management, data cleansing/manipulation/conversion, test scripts, status reports, etc.

All things that can be done better with other tools, but for many people, it's easier to just work with a tool that they know rather than trying to learn a new tool (witness the groans every time a new $PROCESS Management Tool is introduced).

Not saying it's a good or bad thing, just what I've observed.




Excel is basically an extremely user-friendly IDE for a Turing-complete programming language.




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