In the ongoing debates about Power BI versus Excel, a critical factor is almost always ignored—versatility. Not features. Not design. Not even performance benchmarks...
Archive - April 2025
By Hiran de Silva If Excel is such an incredibly powerful tool—and if there’s no shortage of free tutorials, courses, and guidance on using its most advanced...
The Excel vs. Power BI comparison has been making the rounds again—this time through a post by Danny Martens on LinkedIn. His tagline is punchy—“Get your tailored Power...
There’s a lie that’s been circulating for some time now—a lie about Excel’s relevance in the modern world of business and industry. Social media is largely responsible...
Hiran de Silva’s podcast, centers on the Reg Call Handler Challenge, designed to debunk common misconceptions about Excel’s capabilities for large-scale...
Abstract The Unpivot podcast, a show featuring Excel and Power BI experts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, and Sue Bayes, with occasional input from Giles Male. This podcast...
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Breaking Out of the Cubicle: The Siloed Reality of Work and the Potential for Transformation
In today’s business environment, the way employees interact with data and technology is often constrained by the “cubicle mentality”—a narrow, siloed view of...
By Hiran de Silva There’s a recurring comment I encounter whenever I introduce more advanced Excel techniques or cloud-based spreadsheet architecture. It usually comes...
By Hiran de Silva ABSTRACT This article discusses the contrasting reactions to using Excel for enterprise-grade solutions, where some dismiss advanced applications as...
In Part One, we explored the origins of online trolling—how anonymous mischief-makers infiltrated expert forums in the early days of the internet, pretending to be...