Spreadsheet Professional
Date:
By: Philip Howard
Classification: InDetail
The market for providing complementary products to Microsoft
Excel comes from two directions: business intelligence vendors
aiming to provide additional functionality, especially in the area
of automation and development, and a second group of suppliers that
address this market from the perspective of governance and
compliance, providing the auditing, security and control that is
lacking in Excel. In this latter category there are two broad
categories of products: control and compliance tools and
auditor’s tools. Spreadsheet Professional from Spreadsheet
Innovations is a suite of tools that addresses the auditor’s
(both internal and external) market, though it also includes tools
to help with the construction of spreadsheets.