arstechnica,
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Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts

Williams team leader may only be shocked because he hasn't worked IT.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/formula-1-chief-appalled-to-find-team-using-excel-to-manage-20000-car-parts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

JeffGrigg,
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@arstechnica

As an experienced I.T. professional, I'm literally ZERO percent surprised by any of what the article says. 🙄

j5v,
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@arstechnica It could be worse. Scrolling through 8000 Cardfile records is hard work.

swordgeek,

@arstechnica I'm baffled by the idea that "the solution to the problem of Excel is The Cloud."

A simple relational database (MariaDB or PostGres) would be an ideal solution, and could be easily matched to a shiny front-end.

In other words, Cloud isn't a solution, it's a mechanism.

thedansimonson,
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@arstechnica I fail to see what the problem is here

implementcontrols,

@arstechnica but what cloud based enterprise resource planning tool are they using now? Sounds very expensive and very boring :)

tuckerteague,
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@arstechnica only 20,000 parts? excel can handle over a million rows

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