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ALSO CALLED: VisiCalc DEFINITION: VisiCalc was the original computer spreadsheet program. Very popular among early personal computer users, it could also be said to have been the first killer app. Many people bought computers just so they could use VisiCalc. Created by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in Bricklin's attic in 1979, VisiCalc originally ran on Apple computers. An IBM PC version became available in 1981.Prior to VisiCalc, … Definition continues below.
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Corporate Performance Management software from a finance perspective sponsored by Prophix Software WHITE PAPER: Now that spreadsheets no longer suffice, finance is compelled to help the company perform more effectively, and must balance these pressures against the costs of implementing a corporate performance management (CPM) system to automate analytical business processes. Access this resource to learn of the CPM benefits for finance. Posted: 05 Mar 2013 \| Published: 05 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Spreadsheets

Best Practice Guide to Reducing Your Cost of Compliance sponsored by Lumension WHITE PAPER: With the cost of compliance expected to rise, organizations must find ways to streamline compliance spending to maintain IT operations and IT security service levels in the coming year. Here are some useful best practices to slash regulatory overhead and improve the effectiveness of your compliance spend. Posted: 31 Jan 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Audits \| Compliance Best Practices \| Data Security \| Regulatory Compliance \| Security \| Security Best Practices \| Security Management \| Security Spending \| Spreadsheets \| TCO

Moving Beyond Spreadsheets sponsored by Prophix Software WHITE PAPER: This paper provides warning signs that your budget and forecasting processes have outgrown your spreadsheets. Once you have established this is the case, read further to find steps on what your next move should be, including how to choose the right financial software to adopt. Posted: 01 Sep 2012 \| Published: 31 Aug 2012 TOPICS: Budgeting \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Financial Systems \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software \| Spreadsheets

Accelerate Your Business: Performance Reporting Essentials sponsored by Prophix Software WHITE PAPER: Companies that are still using spreadsheets to collect and disperse data may run into errors and possibly outgrow the capacity of Excel. Read this paper to learn find the ideal reporting and performance management system for your organization. Posted: 01 Sep 2012 \| Published: 31 Aug 2012 TOPICS: Budgeting \| ERP \| Financial Applications Software \| Financial Systems \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software \| Spreadsheets

Transforming spreadsheets: planning, budgeting and forecasting for midsize companies sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Does your business rely on spreadsheets for performance management? Spreadsheets require labor-intensive manual processes and are highly error-prone. Learn how you can replace or augment your spreadsheets with planning applications that integrate easily with spreadsheets, leveraging the best of your existing investment. Posted: 17 Feb 2012 \| Published: 17 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Business Processes \| Spreadsheets

Risk and Reward:Are you still using Spreadsheets for Budgeting and Forecasting? sponsored by Centage WHITE PAPER: Modern financial software enables business to collaborate with visibility, reliability, and accountability in a controlled environment. This paper explains the issues with spreadsheet budgeting and helps business find better financial software for easy long-term planning. Posted: 19 Jul 2012 \| Published: 19 Jul 2012 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting \| Financial reporting software \| Financial Statements \| Financial Systems \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software \| Spreadsheets

Advanced Case Management: Making its Mark on Key Government Sectors sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Government agencies are frequently adopting advanced case management strategies to automate processes, streamline practices and achieve better, swifter results. This paper from IBM discusses how advanced case management strategies are taking hold in today's agencies and how these practices can help foster more efficient, effective environments. Posted: 10 May 2012 \| Published: 10 May 2012 TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Data Management \| Government Agencies (U.S.) \| Spreadsheets

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Software Evaluation and Selection Guide sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn a systematic approach to select software for your planning, budgeting and forecasting needs. Read how to combine today's best practices with leading-edge technology. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Enterprise Resource Management \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Financial Reporting \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software \| Spreadsheets

The Risks of Using Spreadsheets for Statistical Analysis sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper presents some points you should consider if you use, or plan to use, a spreadsheet to perform statistical analysis. It also describes an alternative that in many cases will be more suitable. Posted: 26 Oct 2011 \| Published: 26 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Predictive Analytics \| Spreadsheets

Transforming Spreadsheets: Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting for Midsize Companies sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: In “Transforming Spreadsheets: Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting for Midsize Companies” you’ll discover how to transform spreadsheet-only processes into an effective financial performance management solution with IBM Cognos Express. Posted: 17 Feb 2011 \| Published: 17 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Dashboards \| Data Analytics \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software \| Query Tools \| Reporting Software \| Spreadsheets

Getting the Most From Your SAP Production Reports sponsored by Symtrax Corporation WHITE PAPER: This eight-page whitepaper is a guideline for improving the rendering and efficiency of the complete SAP production reporting system. It discusses how to leverage the value of existing systems reports, and how to deliver timely, properly formatted reports and business documents. Posted: 10 Sep 2010 \| Published: 10 Sep 2010 TOPICS: Application Programming Interfaces \| Applications Management \| Balance Sheets \| IT Departments \| Reporting Software \| SAP (Product) \| Scripting \| Spreadsheets

Fast, Accurate Management Reporting: eight reasons why spreadsheets may be letting you down. sponsored by Indicee WHITE PAPER: While spreadsheets are useful for one off analysis and modeling, they’re not ideal for repeatedly creating reports from large volumes of data. More users are now replacing their spreadsheet based systems with Indicee. By doing so they are improving the timeliness and reliability of their business information with a cost-effective alternative. Posted: 05 Apr 2010 \| Published: 05 Apr 2010 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Systems \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Microsoft Excel \| Reporting Software \| Spreadsheets

Executive Paper: Oracle Crystal Ball sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Increase revenue. Decrease costs. Reduce development time. Every day you strive to meet these goals. And each business decision you make either enables you to advance toward them - or impedes your progress. Read this paper to learn more. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 14 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Balanced Scorecards \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Development \| Business Intelligence \| Information Management \| Oracle (Product) \| Reporting Software \| Spreadsheets

Simplify the User Experience: Enable Business Users to Automate the Integration of Microsoft Office Business Applications with the SAP Business Suite sponsored by Winshuttle, LLC WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how Winshuttle data management applications enable finance, accounts payable/receivable, purchasing, human resources and production planning teams to easily automate the incorporation of Excel data into an SAP solution. Posted: 04 Dec 2008 \| Published: 04 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Business Processes \| Data Management \| ERP \| Microsoft Office \| Programming \| SAP (Product) \| Spreadsheets \| Testing

Best Practices for Data Loading into SAP ERP Systems sponsored by Winshuttle, LLC WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines existing data-loading methods and best practices to easily incorporate data into SAP solutions. Posted: 03 Dec 2008 \| Published: 03 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Databases \| ERP \| SAP (Product) \| Spreadsheets \| TCO \| Training

Turning the Compliance Challenge into a Business Advantage sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: New rules have spawned an army of consultants, vendors and solutions to address the "compliance" problem. Read this paper to learn how to turn the compliance challenge into a business advantage. Posted: 26 Sep 2008 \| Published: 18 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Change Management \| Compliance (Finance) \| Consultants \| HIPAA \| Insurance Industry \| Outsourcing \| Product Management \| Regulations \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Spreadsheets

Four Steps to a Best-Run Business sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This document describes how you can build a strategy to unify and run your business more effectively. Posted: 17 Sep 2008 \| Published: 17 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Business Architectures \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Development \| Business Intelligence \| Globalization \| Localization \| Procurement \| Spreadsheets \| Training

Agile Tools: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly sponsored by TargetProcess, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This article explains various approaches for agile project management and provide comparisons between the simplest tools (index cards and whiteboards), spreadsheets, traditional project management software and agile project management software. Posted: 26 Aug 2008 \| Published: 26 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Project Management \| Software Development Tools \| Spreadsheets

The Netweaver Upgrade: Ensuring Performance While Balancing Cost with Risk sponsored by HyPerformix WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses critical factors every IT decision maker needs to know when upgrading to NetWeaver, to ensure system performance and availability, and to balance cost with the risks of downtime. Posted: 16 Jul 2008 \| Published: 16 Jul 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Collection \| Disaster Recovery \| IT Management \| NetWeaver \| Spreadsheets

Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Business intelligence (BI) allows organizations to better understand, analyze, and even predict what's occurring in their company. Posted: 09 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jun 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Process Management \| Business Systems \| Customer Satisfaction \| Dashboards \| Data Management \| Decision Support Databases \| OLAP \| Reporting Software \| SMBs \| Spreadsheets

Accelerate Sales Velocity sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Oracle has documented five best practices for dramatically improving pipeline management and, in turn, increasing sales velocity. Posted: 02 Jun 2008 \| Published: 02 Jun 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| CRM \| Oracle (Product) \| Productivity \| Sales \| Spreadsheets

The 2007 Regulatory Compliance Executive Survey sponsored by Polivec WHITE PAPER: The findings in this report were taken from 142 respondents to an online survey administered in 2007. Participants were primarily senior business executives and professionals in the compliance and IT fields from a broad array of industries. Posted: 25 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 TOPICS: Compliance Best Practices \| Compliance Software \| Financial Services \| Information Management \| Manufacturing \| Records Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Retail Industry \| Spreadsheets

ESG: Improving the Legal Discovery Process with More Efficient Information Management sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how one solution provider, EMC, is helping customers address electronic discovery challenges by helping customers manage their information infrastructure more effectively. Posted: 13 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Aug 2007 TOPICS: Electronic Discovery \| Email \| Enterprise Content Management \| Financial Statements \| Information Management \| Productivity \| Spreadsheets \| Workflow Software

The Impact of Lean on Consumer Product Manufacturers sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Discover the impact of Lean on consumer product manufacturers and gain key tips in implementing successful Lean initiatives across the enterprise. Posted: 04 Feb 2008 \| Published: 01 Feb 2007 TOPICS: ERP \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Execution Systems \| Metrics \| Product Management \| Sales \| Spreadsheets

Promoting Growth through Incentive Compensation Management: Technology Tools Increase Visibility and Control sponsored by Varicent Software Incorporated WHITE PAPER: Discover how sales compensation management software helps companies administer complex compensation plans, manage costs, and predict results, thus providing greater control over their sales compensation plans as well as measuring the cost o... Posted: 10 May 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: Business Performance Management \| CFOs \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Incentive Management \| Incentive Management Software \| Real-time Analytics \| Salaries and Wages \| Sales \| Sales Representatives \| Spreadsheets \| Strategic Planning

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SPREADSHEETS DEFINITION (continued): … a spreadsheet required that a user who changed one figure on a spreadsheet had to manually recalculate the effect of that change on other figures. VisiCalc not only exploited the computer to automatically update a spreadsheet but allowed the user to immediately see all the changes.Never patented, VisiCalc was soon followed by what became an even more popular spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3. Later, Microsoft developed Excel and included it in its widely-sold Office suite.VisiCalc was coded in assembler for the microprocessor in the Apple II and tested in a Multics system at MIT. The original …
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