Are you working as a temp, hired for basic Excel tasks–cleaning up messy spreadsheets, doing tedious, repetitive work no one wants to do? Imagine...
In this article, I’ll demonstrate how a single sheet in an Excel workbook can outshine even the most sophisticated ERP systems and cloud-based FP&A tools currently...
The idea of tripling your pay with Excel is not clickbait or snake oil; it’s a proven reality that you can verify yourself. If you’re one of the billion Excel...
When discussing the value of advanced Excel skills, it’s essential to ground the conversation in evidence: not just theory or popularity, but measurable, real-world...
So… in response to a question about macros… Are Macros the same as programming Excel? Hiran de Silva reflects on a very common explanation… one given by Claire Squibb…...
By Hiran de Silva The Everyday Drive to Work Imagine this. Every morning, you drive to work. Same route.Same time.Same sequence of turns. Now imagine your car has a...
By Hiran de Silva The Problem Across the enterprise landscape, solutions involving Excel, FP&A platforms, and data tools are not evaluated on neutral ground...
The Mountain You Chose to Climb By Hiran de Silva Let me start with a story. There is a mountaineer. In his region, there is a famous mountain.Everyone talks about it...
By Hiran de Silva On a recent post by Marcus Syben, I asked a simple question: How do you make money from Excel? Marcus responded with a list of things you can do with...
How Excel Became a $100 Billion Opportunity** Presenting the work of Hiran de Silva. Red by Juniper. There is a gap in the market. Not a small inefficiency.Not a tooling...
By Hiran de Silva Let’s talk about automation. Not the kind people say they’re doing.The kind that actually removes work. The Simple Reality of Automation Imagine your...
By Hiran de Silva Before we talk about automation… before we talk about what Excel can do… We need to establish something far more basic: What exactly is “current...
By Hiran de Silva There is an irony at the heart of how Excel is used across industry. Most of the work being done today…does not need to be done by people at all. Two...
By Hiran de Silva ‘A Better Way?’The Best Way?‘Stop Doing That, Do This Instead’? One of my favourite rants and explainers … on what people call...