By some estimates, more than 1.2 billion users, including most of the real estate industry, rely upon Microsoft Excel. While Excel is a powerful commercial tool for statistical, engineering, and financial data tracking and analysis, the software was not designed primarily for use as a collaborative platform—an environment in which the commercial real estate and construction industries thrive.
Users consider Excel and other spreadsheets the industry standard and most have at least a working knowledge thereof. Critical mass alone should not make those tools the standard for bid management,Ìýcost tracking an