Ode to Excel

Marina Guzik

Chapter Chapter 22 in CFO Techniques, 2011, pp 195-201 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Spreadsheets and I, we go back a long way; and I mean a long way—as far as DOS-driven Lotus 1–2–3 with its execution of one-key commands. I still remember most of them. Many high-tech historians attribute the revolutionary success of IBM PCs in the 1980s to this program. It was the first computer software ever to use television consumer advertising. Alas, it lost the battle of rows and columns to a far more superior, forever improving, and now world-dominating rival—Microsoft Excel. But that does not diminish the brilliant simplicity of Lotus’s product name: “1–2–3” signified the combination of three fundamental capabilities of these instruments: Calculable spreadsheets Data analysis Visual presentation

Keywords: Business Intelligence; Small Business Owner; Automatic Change; Pivot Table; Profit Contribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4302-3757-0_22

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9781430237570

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4302-3757-0_22

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().