Yesterday, a friend who is engaged in e-commerce complained to me that it is too difficult to process data with Excel, not only is it slow to load and easy to crash, but also when a field is changed, it will be retransmitted, which is very troublesome!
Friends who use Excel as a table every day should have a deep understanding. Take e-commerce as an example, a huge amount of sales data is generated every day, such as the number of orders, the amount of orders, the amount of payment, the amount of failed transactions, etc., which are tens of thousands.
- With any luck, it can be safely exported to Excel and transferred to the business department.
- When you are unlucky, the export is stuck and the data is missing, and then the business department wants to add or modify fields, then you need to re-export, re-transmit Excel, back and forth, and it takes half a day to transfer the data.
Excel is a well-deserved number one office software, but with the explosion of data volume, everyone's requirements for real-time and collaboration are getting higher and higher, and the shortcomings of Excel are gradually exposed. And Microsoft officials have already figured out a way for everyone, and they have launched a BI tool - a little white tool that is simpler than Excel. It can be seen that learning to use BI tools is inevitable.
Here, take Fine BI, which has the largest domestic market share (the activation code can be obtained at the end of the article) as an example, compare Excel, and see the advantages of BI software.
1. Data processing capability
Excel's data processing capabilities have been criticized for a long time. Even if many people argue: You don't know how to use it, so you think Excel can't handle tens of thousands of pieces of data. But it turns out that for most users, it is really impossible to handle massive data with Excel. In addition, in the process of transferring the Excel file, it is inevitable to change the number and format by mistake, which is a headache for the person who makes the final statistics.
BI software can directly fetch data from the database, and supports a variety of database types. Moreover, for Fine BI, it is very easy to process tens of thousands of pieces of data. If you have to process tens of thousands of pieces of data every day, use Fine BI. The personal version is free.
2. Data collaboration ability
As a file-based data processing tool, Excel is inherently flawed in data sharing and collaborative office work. When using Excel, everyone can only use U disk, email, or IM tools such as QQ and WeChat. Documents come and go. If you have to transfer dozens of files every day, it is really a headache for who to use.
BI software takes into account the issue of office collaboration. Fine BI allows every user who needs to work collaboratively to easily operate the same data with full authorization, greatly reducing IT data retrieval work. The result of the operation can also be visualized in real time through the browser. If you want to share the data with others, you can also share it directly in the form of a link, and the other party can view it by opening the link.
3. Data security performance
Excel is very unsound for data security protection. It can only be controlled by setting a password. There is no way to manage roles for users, nor to limit access to data at different levels.
BI tools manage permissions for different users, different data, and different reports through the management console to ensure that users at each level can see their own information, and data is well protected through management permissions. .
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4. Convenience of data analysis
Excel is often used as a report, but this kind of table report is only a simple list of numbers, and the chart is not beautiful enough. If you want to do multi-table analysis or dynamic charts, you need to learn vlookup, VBA, etc., which is even more difficult for ordinary business personnel.
The phrase " Fine BI is suitable for Xiaobai" is reflected in data analysis. You only need to drag and drop to drag and drop the fields you want to analyze into the corresponding dimension. The type, color, and size of the chart only need to be selected with a mouse click. There is a natural linkage function between charts, which can dynamically display data. In addition, in the Fine BI help document, there are a variety of commonly used data analysis models, such as RFM, ABC, funnel model, etc., which can be directly applied.
