Avoid Excel Overkill!

Excel Overkill

I once observed a VP of a very large corporation build from scratch, in Excel, a “sophisticated”  tool that would allow remote users to enter data in a centrally located Excel file.  It was full of gizmo’s like macros and sophisticated formulas.  In total effort, over several  months, he spent about 6 weeks

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I didn’t know I could do that with ACT! Part 3 – Dashboards

Dashboards were introduced to managers a few years back to consolidate data points into a single screen. Dashboards  can contain top opportunities, today’s scheduled activities, histories of contact interaction, revenue year-to-date against a target, etc., all in a single view. Think of a business dashboard as where you view your business’ speed, RPMs, fuel level, and warning lights, sans bobblehead. ACT! introduced a dashboard in version 2008. It was a […]

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