Below is a brief overview of Excel's biggest shortcomings, along with the solutions and benefits that Palo can provide. See for yourself how GRID Dynamics and the implementation of Palo can help optimize your tracking and planning processes and overcome the "spreadsheet chaos".

Excel Shortcomings

• Segmented, duplicated data. No single point of truth
• Poor access control
• Data spread across many systems and spreadsheets
• Tedious data collection via e-mail distribution/collection
• Painful manual manipulation and consolidation of data
• Dimensional limits of static rows and columns
• Planning process can feel like a nightmare
• Requires tons of manual effort and can be error prone

The Palo Solution

• Uncouple the data from the spreadsheet
• Put old and new data into a powerful write-back MOLAP back-end (creating a single, real-time, controlled point of truth for data)
• Turn Excel into powerful front-end with full Excel capabilities for analysis, etc. - remove the two-dimensional limits
• Add additional functionality for data gathering, consolidation and analysis
• Add a powerful web suite for data gathering, web-based analysis and report publishing

Palo Benefits

• Allows you to continue using Excel, and fully leverage the best of what it can do
• Significantly reduce time and manual effort spent preparing and analyzing data for reporting
• Dramatically improve Excel's data manipulation and analysis capabilities
• Rapidly create and share flexible dynamic reports from within Excel
• Enhance and leverage your own Excel skills and knowledge
• Provide leaders with timely, insightful data analysis and decision support
• Increase decision data quality through central control and automatic consolidation
• Fully leverage the web environment