Author - Hiran de Silva

By Hiran de Silva For more than two decades, a falsehood has been repeated across boardrooms, sales presentations, and webinars: “You can’t consolidate bottom-up with...

By Hiran de Silva For too long, Excel has been misunderstood. ERP vendors call it Excel Hell.Cloud startups promise to replace it.Even some Excel influencers quietly...

By Hiran de Silva This presentation demonstrates that the $100-billion industry which has emerged over the past two decades — claiming to replace Excel — is, in fact...

By Hiran de Silva 1. Is there any real, independent research on the ‘alternative to Excel’ industry? Yes — mostly from three places: FP&A Trends (finance planning...

By Hiran de Silva In every organization, there’s a spreadsheet specialist — the go-to person when something urgent, messy, or mission-critical needs fixing in Excel...

By Hiran de Silva The Literal Direction vs. The Lateral Explanation A story about how we learn, who we trust, and why so many of us end up in the swamp. A tourist stands...

This is the companion demonstration to our earlier explainer on the historical background of Excel and databases.It follows naturally from the QCA Audit case study —...

(And Why So Many People Misunderstand It) By Hiran de Silva Introduction: A Word That’s Been Misunderstood The word database has been so loosely used on social media...

What My Engineering Mind Discovered About the State of Excel Education By Hiran de Silva My engineering mind has always worked in a particular way.It doesn’t just ask...

By Hiran de Silva A friend saw my CD collection and asked,“Can I borrow this one?” I said, “No — my moral standards forbid it. You should buy your own.”He agreed… then...