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  Forrester: Enterprise social software to become a $6.4 billion market in 2016

  Enterprise social collaboration software, which offer Facebook and Twitter-like capabilities adapted for workplaces, will grow strongly in the coming years, eclipsing demand for more traditional communications and collaboration products, according to a new study from Forrester Research.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 03 December, 2011 04:04

  Tags: applications, cloud computing, collaboration, e-mail, Forrester Research, internet, Office suites, software, Software as a service, spreadsheets

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  Excel 2010 cheat sheet

  Have you come to Microsoft Excel 2010 by way of Excel 2007, or did you skip directly from Excel 2003 or an earlier version? Those in the former group are likely to have a very different upgrade experience from those in the latter group.

  By Preston Gralla and Rich Ericson | 18 October, 2011 01:47

  Tags: applications, Microsoft, software, spreadsheets

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  Use Microsoft Excel for (nearly) everything

  Microsoft Excel spreadsheets hold more than a million rows of data and automate number crunching, but they can do so much more. Excel's simple interface lends itself to uses well beyond those that its designers ever imagined.

  By Helen Bradley | 28 February, 2011 02:30

  Tags: applications, apps, excel, Google, Microsoft, productivity, software, spreadsheets

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  Four questions for Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc inventor

  Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the now-legendary VisiCalc in 1979. Bricklin, currently president of software developer Software Garden Inc., recently spoke with Computerworld about the intent of VisiCalc and how the spreadsheet has evolved.

  By Sandra Gittlen | 20 January, 2011 07:06

  Tags: applications, software, spreadsheets

• Why some companies are ditching their spreadsheets

  Until a few years ago, Thule Group's North American division would have been considered a "classic spreadsheet-driven" company, according to Vice President of Finance Mark Cohen.

  By Sandra Gittlen | 20 January, 2011 07:05

  Tags: applications, software, spreadsheets, Thule Group

• Microsoft debuts data visualization tool

  Microsoft has released a controller for its Silverlight multimedia software that can present dynamic visual summaries of large data sets in Web browsers.

  By Joab Jackson | 01 July, 2010 03:46

  Tags: application development, applications, browsers, business intelligence, Development tools, Graphics / multimedia, Microsoft, Office suites, Online analytical processing, Portals, software, spreadsheets, Web services development

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  Startup pushes Hadoop via spreadsheet

  A startup called Datameer is offering a simpler way for business analysts to use Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale data processing on clusters of commodity hardware.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 April, 2010 04:24

  Tags: Datameer, hadoop, spreadsheets

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  Mitre 10 taps open source for fast BI win

  National hardware equipment chain Mitre 10 has implemented a business intelligence system in eight weeks to centralise its reporting while maintaining compatibility with spreadsheets.

  By Rodney Gedda | 22 March, 2010 07:39

  Tags: business intelligence, Java, Jedox, Naked Data, open source, Palo, spreadsheets