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Build a robust data management system with Excel & SheetRails

Moving from Excel to formal data systems is disruptive, expensive and often fails.

Keep the sheets your teams know and love.

Just add SheetRails.

SheetRails is a toolkit that lets you turn Excel into an end-user interface for your database.

Implementing teams keep control of process design, data inputs & outputs, in a format they already know and love.
Systems specialists get undisruptive tools that solve for Excel’s shortcomings, enhancing efficiency & ensuring data accuracy and security meet industry standards.

Implementing teams continue to use Excel to design & edit templates for data collection, analysis and reporting
SheetRails adds controls and generates web-app forms directly from sheets for foolproof data collection in a familiar format
SheetRails structures & stores data in a centralized database
SheetRails generates database linked web-app dashboards and reports directly from the design sheet

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2			Excel		vs	SheetRails
3		Why Excel Doesn't Scale	Proliferation of Excel files makes centralised reporting and analysis near impossible			Centralised Database
4			Copy-and-paste between masters and duplicates is the only way to share a portion of a sheet			User-specific views / Permissions
5			Finger errors, ineffective sheet protection features, adhoc data collection workflows			Made For Data Collection
6			Version control of templates and multiple older populated copies is hell!			Auto-upgrading Master Templates
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9			Other Data Solutions		vs	SheetRails
10		Why > 50% of Data System Transitions Fail	People with specialised technical skills are needed to configure and maintain everything	The how to draw an owl problem:		SheetRails let's the technical specialist who doesn't understand the details draw the circles (basic structure, workflow, permissions), and let's the people who understand the business fill in the rest
11			This requires business process owners to accurately and completely communicate their needs in language that the technical specialist can understand (in an area outside their expertise)
12			Doing this is so difficult & time-consuming that it's rarely done well, or only done for a small number of business processes. Everything else is put on to a very long backlog that will probably never be completed			With other solutions the technical specialist has to do both, and the process owner gets a badly drawn owl
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2		Why Excel Doesn't Scale
3		Excel			vs	SheetRails
4		Proliferation of Excel files makes centralised reporting and analysis near impossible				Centralised Database
5		Copy-and-paste between masters and duplicates is the only way to share a portion of a sheet				User-specific views / Permissions
6		Finger errors, ineffective sheet protection features, adhoc data collection workflows				Made For Data Collection
7		Version control of templates and multiple older populated copies is hell!				Auto-upgrading Master Templates
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9		Why > 50% of Data System Transitions Fail
10		Other Data Solutions	People with specialised technical skills are needed to configure and maintain everything
11			This requires business process owners to accurately and completely communicate their needs in language that the technical specialist can understand (in an area outside their expertise)
12			Doing this is so difficult & time-consuming that it's rarely done well, or only done for a small number of business processes. Everything else is put on to a very long backlog that will probably never be completed
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14		vs	The how to draw an owl problem:
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27		SheetRails	SheetRails let's the technical specialist who doesn't understand the details draw the circles (basic structure, workflow, permissions), and let's the people who understand the business fill in the rest
28		SheetRails	With other solutions the technical specialist has to do both, and the process owner gets a badly drawn owl
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