In the past I&#x27;ve made a lot of money converting organization&#x27;s mammoth mess of spreadsheets into a proper solution. I&#x27;ve done this for more than one organization.<p>The problem is Excel is easy to abuse, thats the way people know how to to solve problems so it doesn&#x27;t occur to them they may need proper software to do what they need to do, not that they don&#x27;t have the funds. All the companies I&#x27;ve worked for have had the funds.<p>Most organizations don&#x27;t audit their spreadsheets nor keep backups or have a method of keeping track of them - the spreadsheet you get emailed may not be the current version. Its par for the course for spreadsheets to be done in a completely ad hoc manner with no controls whatsoever.<p>From my experience fixing spreadsheet messes, they usually waste person-hours like crazy and end up costing more than paying an engineer for custom software or getting an off the self solution.  This has been my experience.<p>Spreadsheet abuse was a factor in JPMorgan losing 2 billion dollars in 2012, for example.