Emerging AI-enabled, automated data management tools such as Paradigm have the potential to challenge Excel’s current market dominance.

Excel first appeared on the Apple Macintosh in 1985. It sported a graphical interface from the start, unlike its text-based competitors. Microsoft then ported Excel to Windows, where it quickly gained ...

Business intelligence and analytics tools are no longer optional to deliver real-time insights and support agile business decisions.

When you run a small business, you have to wear a lot of hats. Suddenly, you're not just an entrepreneur. You're an accountant, an inventory manager, a chief marketing officer, and an entire human ...

Maximor has come out of stealth with a human-in-the-loop agentic platform that does the finance team's grunt work.

Four decades after its debut, finance chiefs say Excel’s consistency, flexibility and shared language keep it central to corporate finance even as AI reshapes the tech stack.

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When Andrew Grigolyunovich first started using Excel more than two decades ago, he never imagined the spreadsheet program would land him in Las Vegas or on ESPN.   The Latvian financial consultant ...