spreadsheet News and Other Resources

White Papers

BI Leveraging On Demand THINKStrategies Whitepaper

April 4, 2011 12:00am PDT

Organizations of all sizes across nearly every industry sector are facing unprecedented macro-market forces that are driving them to seek new business intelligence (BI) tools to achieve their...

Provided by: SAP

White Papers

Versioning for Mashups - An Exploratory Study

March 24, 2011 12:00am PDT

End users with little software background are developing numerous software applications using devices such as spreadsheets, web mashups, and web macros. Web mashups are particularly popular...

Provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Q&A

Why has my spreadsheet suddenly slowed down?

March 3, 2011 6:51am PST

Why has my spreadsheet suddenly slowed down? One of my Excel 2007 spreadsheets suddenly takes a long time to open and save. I have been constantly adding additional columns and some new...

7 Latest comment by Sue H1

Discussion Threads

Office challenge: How would you improve this Excel spreadsheet

March 2, 2011 10:17am PST

Office challenge: How would you improve this Excel spreadsheet article root I would try something like... 1. Cell C2 = MONTH(A2)&D2 ' creates a string that identifies the month in column A...

48 Started by Joaquim Amado Lopes | Latest comment by N / A

Blog Post

Office challenge: How would you improve this Excel spreadsheet

March 2, 2011 7:21am PST

This week, improve the example Excel spreadsheet and learn the solution to last week's transposing puzzle.

48 Latest comment by N / A

Whitepapers

Design Spreadsheets and Structural Steel Database

February 28, 2011 12:00am PST

Although structural engineers typically use a wide range of advanced computer software for calculations and structural analysis and design, classical easy-to-use tools, such as design charts and...

Provided by: EuroJournals

Discussion Threads

How to share files using the iPad

February 10, 2011 10:41am PST

How to share files using the iPad article root Dropbox for many reasons Well first DropBox 2gb is free, you can get additional 250mb with every referral. You can get till 10gb maximum with free...

3 Started by mrbobyu@... | Latest comment by steve jack

Blog Post

Review: Ragic cloud collaboration tool

February 8, 2011 11:30am PST

Ragic allows non-programmer users to bring the ease-of-use of a spreadsheet to an online application development collaboration.

4 Latest comment by Justin James

Discussion Threads

Report TechRepublic bugs and offer suggestions about the 2011 upgrade

February 4, 2011 11:19pm PST

Report TechRepublic bugs and offer suggestions about the 2011 upgrade article root This is a mighty useful blog entry... Now, let's have a mindless off-topic argument here, to keep it up top on...

22 Started by AnsuGisalas | Latest comment by Datacommguy

White Papers

Thriving in the Recovery: Getting CFOs and CIOs in Step for Forecasting and Planning

February 1, 2011 12:00am PST

New research proves that many organizations continue to rely on spreadsheets and manual processes to tackle forecasting. IT executives must take a proactive approach to looking for solutions,...

Provided by: Oracle

White Papers

Automating String Processing in Spreadsheets Using Input-Output Examples

January 28, 2011 12:00am PST

The authors describe the design of a string programming/expression language that supports restricted forms of regular expressions, conditionals and loops. The language is expressive enough to...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Discussion Threads

Rights protected and encrypted spreadsheets now supported within ComplyXL

January 25, 2011 6:23am PST

Rights protected and encrypted spreadsheets now supported within ComplyXL ComplyXL now supports Rights Protected and Encrypted files in line with corporate spreadsheet management policies...

1 Started by sarah.seddon@... | Latest comment by sarah.seddon@...

Discussion Threads

TechRepublic's official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade

January 23, 2011 9:30pm PST

Can you believe it???? Holy crap! Not only is my avatar missing, now I have to open a new account with another picture host. I only assume TR gets paid for image loads or something. So I...

503 Started by jasonhiner | Latest comment by dcolbert@...

Discussion Threads

Is this an IT function?

January 20, 2011 11:25am PST

Is this an IT function? Here's my issue. Recently I got into a war of words in the workplace over a report cover. Some people seemed to be under the impression it was something I should be doing...

13 Started by hbombvi@... | Latest comment by Tigger_Two

White Papers

The Schema-Independent Database UI

January 12, 2011 12:00am PST

If one has ever encountered a piece of highly domain-specific business software, one might have noticed that it was largely a graphical front-end to some relational database. One might also, in...

Provided by: MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

White Papers

Nerc Cip's and Identity Management

January 2, 2011 12:00am PST

NERC CIP requires significant recurring effort to prepare asset databases and report on access controls. There are areas in each specific CIP, where identity management can assist in reducing the...

Provided by: Huntington Ventures

White Papers

Lost & Found: Has The Productivity In Your Distribution Center Been Languishing Or Even Declining?

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Inventory slotting or profiling is the process of identifying the most efficient placement for each item in a distribution center. Since each warehouse is different, proper slotting depends on a...

Provided by: Industrial Data & Information

Webcasts

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Microsoft Office 2007 Tips and Tricks (Level 100)

December 8, 2010 12:00am PST

Discover the new and popular features within Microsoft Office 2007. Attend this webcast to see the improved Ribbon component in the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and how the Ribbon can...

Provided by: Microsoft

White Papers

Customizable Spreadsheet Analyses For Marketing And Product Management

December 1, 2010 12:00am PST

This paper briefly summarizes seven areas where analytics can help make better decisions in marketing and product management. A brief case study is provided for each application area. The...

Provided by: ModelSheet Software

Case Studies

TCS Helps Qualcomm Gain Better Project Visibility Through a Customized Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) System

November 26, 2010 12:00am PST

With increased pressure on productivity and profitability, companies need to focus their limited development resources on projects that are sure to produce winning results. Portfolio Management...

Provided by: Tata Consultancy Services