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Applications of Excel in different industries
I am working on a school project and need different Excel applications used
in different industries and if possible names of companies. Thank you. Mary C. |
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I work in the telecom industry.
My department uses excel for a whole boat load of different things. From doing equipment pricing/costing, to help with calculations during engineering. One of the common functions that I use it for is to take data from disparate sources and to combine them into a workbook that others can play what-if scenarios. We take data from the AS/400 (MACPAC), mainframe (engineering files), UNIX (dumps of customer telephone switches) and combine them into a single source. I also take data from systems that others can't access and reformat it into workbooks (excel is THE language of business--don't let anyone tell you it's powerpoint <vbg). And there are a lot of adhoc reports that get generated everyday. Just using excel's Data|filter|autofilter can make looking for information pretty easy. Mary C. wrote: I am working on a school project and need different Excel applications used in different industries and if possible names of companies. Thank you. Mary C. -- Dave Peterson |
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I spent many years(now retired) in the Pulp and Paper industry. Excel was/is used extensively for arranging/manipulating data gathered by Process Information systems. Excel is a very good tool for monitoring data to look at trends in the various processes, both real time and historical. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:00:54 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: I work in the telecom industry. My department uses excel for a whole boat load of different things. From doing equipment pricing/costing, to help with calculations during engineering. One of the common functions that I use it for is to take data from disparate sources and to combine them into a workbook that others can play what-if scenarios. We take data from the AS/400 (MACPAC), mainframe (engineering files), UNIX (dumps of customer telephone switches) and combine them into a single source. I also take data from systems that others can't access and reformat it into workbooks (excel is THE language of business--don't let anyone tell you it's powerpoint <vbg). And there are a lot of adhoc reports that get generated everyday. Just using excel's Data|filter|autofilter can make looking for information pretty easy. Mary C. wrote: I am working on a school project and need different Excel applications used in different industries and if possible names of companies. Thank you. Mary C. |
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