http://www.telepark.com/Business-Wiki-Blog english http://blog.telepark.com/Business-Wiki-Blog/2010/02/02/Top-5-reasons-to-use-Web-based-spreadsheets-instead-of-Excel <p>Are you still emailing <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel">Excel</a> files like in the old days? Then it's time to use Web-based Spreadsheets instead.</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://management.about.com/od/metrics/a/Measure2Manage.htm">You cannot manage, what you don't measure</a>. And you cannot plan, what you don't structure. Hence the appeal of spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.</p> <p>But in the age of the Internet, several drawbacks to Excel files became apparent:</p> <ul> <li>you cannot access them anywhere, at any time</li> <li>you never know who has the latest version and where to find it</li> <li>you don't know who edited it last, when and why</li> <li>you are receiving new file versions that you cannot open</li> </ul> <p>If you need to solve business problems collaboratively, in real time, here are the top 5 reasons to use <a href="http://www.telepark.com/index.php?pageid=1249">Web-based preadsheets</a>:</p> <ol> <li>Web-based: easy to share</li> <li>Centralized: easy to find</li> <li>Permissions-based: secure</li> <li>Simplified: easy to use</li> <li>Inexpensive</li> </ol> <p>&nbsp;</p>