It’s just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP
It’s just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP
How does erotic role play help tame Excel?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_spreadsheet/
It’s just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP
It’s just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP
How does erotic role play help tame Excel?
For a non-joke answer. ERP in this context means Enterprise Resource Planning. It basically allows you to do everything an enterprise requires with one software system instead of using several different ones.
Ta, I was curious.
I would also like to know more.
It let’s your accounts blow off steam so they use excel better instead of filling the account ting sheets with dirty messages
Just goes to show that a spreadsheet is a very powerful tool.🤣
You could run empires on the back of a spreadsheet.
You absolutely shouldn’t, it’s nearly the worst option you have available, but you could.
It’s not the worst option available, it might not be the cleanest solution, but it does offer a level of flexibility if you have an in-depth understanding of key operational (or financial) business processes.
Honestly, that’s fine. This may be a wild take, but they grew and their usage of excel obviously didn’t hold them back, what’s the issue?
The fact that excel lacks any sort of auditing or access controls. The fact that any corruption in the file could lead to the company not knowing what money goes where and who’s been paid and who owes them money.
Excel or not, they should be using backups.
even more frighting?
they aren’t the only one.
it’s a god damned miracle capitalism hasn’t died in the last 40 years.
I mean, it does its best doing that currently.
That depends on spending articles, not on sum amount. Maybe their accounting is as simple as: 10bn income, 2bn to steal, 3 for salaries, 1 for medicaments and machinery, rest for advertisements.
You don’t need super-pooper software for that.
Even if their spending is that simple in terms of categories, it’s almost certain their breakdown within each category is definitely quite a bit more complex. Hell, my wife runs her own therapy practice with just herself and she talks about how obnoxious dealing with insurance is for billing all the time.
Yeah, it depends entirely on how many things you’re tracking and how many people need to access it. It’s probably not the right tool here, but sometimes it just is.
Excel isn’t a problem unless all of it was done on one sheet and the only function used was sum()
Should have used three spreadsheets. Excel tends to run slowly when a spreadsheet has more than a million cells in it.
Probably should get a dedicated ERP system, mainly to just have official support.
But anybody in finance (like me) knows that everybody from low level accounting assistants, to CBOs use excel daily, even if they have an ERP system. For instance, the one I am using is complete shit with outrageous inexcusable ‘features’ (can’t even describe them because they sound made up). So we all just export data to excel so we can format the reports/data into an actual useful format.
silverhand@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Only those with no experience in corporate finance will find this surprising.
Excel is a powerful tool. The only ones who ridicule it are idiots who don’t understand anything.
agelord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is it powerful? Yes
Is it fast when dealing with large volume of data? No
Are the “powerful” features intuitive to new users? Also no.
Source: I use Excel, Python, SQL for job
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In fairness to the register they also ridicule moving to a dedicatdd ERP in the same article.
Youre right there is nothing wrong with Excel. Its powerful software and ultimately it cones down to human and organisational processes about whether its any good or not. You can have the most expensive top end dedicated ERP in the world and still be a total mess… Similarly business used to run on pen and paper and could EB highly efficient.
Software is just a tool, and organisation go wrong when they think it alone is the solution to their problems.
Also I doubt Health NZ overspend has anything whatsoever to do with excel. Instead it’ll be due to rising demand, and inflationary pressures on public finances. We have the exact problems here in the UK with the NHS just scaled up to a £182bn.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
au contraire. We know the abuse Excel has to go through. And MS even added features to make abusing it easier.
abuse means incorrect use here.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You typoed ‘popular’?
endofline@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s not… Try to write a formula range which covers only lower half of the column which is typical setup in summing numbers( avoiding headers ), limits in columns and records, ever changing formats across versions… You asking for a disaster to happen which happens very often
silverhand@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago