Enterprise Spreadsheet Management: A Necessary Good

TL;DR

This paper advocates for Enterprise Spreadsheet Management as an essential tool, highlighting external business drivers and benefits for users involved in repetitive manual spreadsheet tasks.

Contribution

It provides a compelling argument and supporting metrics demonstrating the necessity and advantages of Enterprise Spreadsheet Management in business environments.

Findings

External business drivers necessitate spreadsheet management.

Spreadsheet management improves efficiency for manual processes.

Supporting metrics validate its strategic importance.

Abstract

This paper presents the arguments and supporting business metrics for Enterprise Spreadsheet Management to be seen as a necessary good. These arguments are divided into a summary of external business drivers that make it necessary and the good that may be delivered to business spreadsheet users involved in repetitive manual processes.