Application vendors always start their pitch by reminding you that Excel isn’t a great database, isn’t centralized, collaborative, or custom-built for doing a particular thing. All true, but on the other hand, your spreadsheet does exactly what you want it to do, everyone has Excel, and if you need a change, you can tweak it yourself because you built it yourself. So before you consider giving all that up for costly and rigid software that takes months to deploy and learn, consider putting the Truenumbers human-readable data platform behind your spreadsheet solutions. With Truenumbers and a little bit of re-work, all your spreadsheet solutions can be centralized, collaborative, traceable and interoperable, for less than the cost of even one enterprise application. Best of all, they will still work for Excel users that don’t have access to Truenumbers (though they’ll be missing some of the fun - and benefits)