Comments on: When a Spreadsheet is NOT a Spreadsheet

By: Leah

Leah — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:02:33 +0000

I’ve been experimenting with various project management tools and have discovered an excellent site. It is a very user friendly, web-based application that is well worth taking the time to explore. Take a few minutes and look at Projjex.com. The tutorials are excellent & you don’t need to be a Rocket Scientist to figure out how to use it. It even offers a free version so you can try it on for size.

By: Grem

Grem — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:48:12 +0000

I didn’t visit Under the Radar, though I know Wrike. I personally like the idea of manageing projects via email. The tool can be a bliss for thousands project managers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:42:18 +0000

Hi Zoli,

1. It is very difficult not to be a spreadsheet when the definition is a table of values arranged in rows and columns. In this sense yes, they are.

2. It is not Excel, for sure.

3. They have lost the direction in my pint of view.

4. I am building a corporative spreadsheet with the focus of allow several people working of the same numbers and maintain consistency. By the end of this summer I am having the prototype ready for your evaluation.

Mario Ruiz

http://www.oursheet.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:25:20 +0000

The idea of using familiar interfaces – Excel like interface in this case – to do regular tasks makes intuitive sense. The “Keep It Simple, Stupid!” school of thought is bound to find converts.

It would be interesting to see where this would head. One might see aggresive adoption of familiar interfaces by enterprise vendors for select processes, as in Duet. Or have niche players who focus on a particular task – the task management process described above is a good example of that. Or have firms creating platforms that enable users to build their own links between their familiar interfaces and their enterprise processes.

- Sangeeta Patni,

Extensio Software