I have been privy to the planning stages of many new businesses. Most businesses, when first coalescing their ideas into practical data, tend to use Microsoft Excel to organize their customers, vendors, and other charted data. While this works for the most part, invariably these same businesses find themselves quickly growing out of a simple spreadsheet. Then, when sharing the data among people becomes necessary, this same spreadsheet is either emailed back and forth, or one lucky person becomes the caretaker of the spreadsheet, having to constantly look up information for everyone.
Does this sound familiar?
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