Created in 1987, Microsoft Excel is part of the Microsoft Office suite and has become the industry standard for spreadsheets.

Within business environment, Excel users are fed data extracted from databases by the IT department. The process of extracting the data flatens it, removing one or more dimensions which gives business people a skewed view of the situation.

Excel has hard limits on the size and complexity of data it can handle. Understanding these limitations will allow you to choose better alternatives for your business.