Turning Spreadsheets into Corporate Data

For years, business users have leveraged spreadsheets for storing and communicating data. Although spreadsheets may be easy to create and update, making important corporate decisions based on spreadsheets is risky due to the lack of data credibility. Whether you are a manager, developer, end user, or student, this book will help you turn spreadsheet data into credible, useful, reliable data that can be trusted in order to make important decisions.
A chapter is dedicated to each of the following topics:
Brief history of spreadsheets
Spreadsheet paradox
Spreadsheet varieties
The PDF spreadsheet
Spreadsheet formatting
Spreadsheet disambiguation
The intermediate database
The ssdef database
The corporate database
The metadata database (mnemonic database)
Political considerations
Data modeling and the spreadsheet
Case study