Location, Architecture, and Process Come First By Hiran de Silva A critique on this post by Folorunso Adebare Lala on LinkedIn. There is a growing and welcome interest...

Opening — External Authentication During the pandemic, WIRED Magazine published an article about the people quietly holding global organisations together. Not software...

It’s About What Must Exist Together for Enterprise Work to Happen By Hiran de Silva A recurring confusion in Excel and analytics discussions is the tendency to label...

There is something deeply paradoxical happening in the world of Excel. On the one hand, we have an enormous and highly successful Excel ecosystem. Excel influencers...

By Hiran de Silva Let’s start with a simple, almost innocent question: “Can you build a budgeting workbook for 400 departments?” Almost everyone in the Excel world...

The Oz “Friends Expenses” Demo (and Why Everyone Missed the Point) Excel education is broken — but it’s nobody’s fault.This is Part 2 of the series, where we stop...

Part 1: The Pyramid, the Purple Square, and the Spray Gun This is the opening sound-bite for a series of demonstrations: Excel education is broken — and it’s nobody’s...

Not Wrong — But Already Superseded By Hiran de Silva For over two decades, the same five criticisms of Excel have been repeated in enterprise contexts: Scalability Reach...

(And It Was Obsolete the Day It Arrived) By Hiran de Silva Let me explain what I mean by obsolete, because I know that statement raises eyebrows. At the time Power Query...

—or why Power Query dazzles enthusiasts but fails the generals By Hiran de Silva This piece is a response to a recent LinkedIn post by Richard Nero, where he observed a...