This is post three of a series, important backstory here.
In the heart of many enterprises, a dotted line of friction divides two essential tribes: the Legacy Spreadsheet Modelers, often the unsung subject matter experts wielding Excel like a magic wand, and the Custom Software Developers, architects of scalable, structured systems. This connection, fragile and bidirectional, symbolizes a transfer of business knowledge that's tedious, error-prone, and riddled with misunderstandings. It's like handing off a novel written in hieroglyphs to someone who only reads binary.
This is post two of a series, important backstory here.
End-users live in perpetual doubt. Every morning (or meeting!) starts with the same ritual: “Is this the latest file? Did someone email a new version at 2 a.m.? Which tab has the real assumptions?”
This is post one of a series, important backstory here.
Data engineers are trapped in a vicious cycle: bombarded with urgent, one-off spreadsheet requests that fracture the single source of truth.
This post is a precursor to a series of posts, two of which are being released simultaneously. It's the necessary backstory to the series. Scroll to bottom for links to each related post.
Over a year ago I came up with two diagrams that describe what we typically see at the enterprise, before and after ClearFactr arrives. I personally feel I've never been able to improve upon their compactness and richness, and indeed, the themes of the two slides inform the totality of this website.