There are two sides to the argument. Management needs to manage themselves with the objective of finding solutions. First, fooling around with well understood existing solutions on a...

The data dictionary would be designed to prevent many errors. The DBMS designer could limit input to certain individuals too. Spreadsheets typically don't have such complex controls for...

The easy argument will be that Excel is simpler so why are you making things more difficult.

Your argument is that 300 spreadsheets will have hidden problems that were...

Here is a quick estimate of the problem. Spreadsheets seem efficient and they are for each individual solution. The problem is that large numbers of spreadsheets quickly become...