In a nutshell. Here are our reasons for leaving Excel for a sexier database:

1. Relational data in Databases allows for fast, accurate analysis of your data.
2. Databases include Powerful Data Querying Tools utilising relationships in data to draw accurate conclusions.
3. Custom Interfaces means your data can be displayed how you want, where you want.
4. Speed and Performance – Databases are built with data access as a primary focus.
5. Access your data from anywhere in the world with cloud-based Databases.

Databases are extremely powerful tools that are designed specifically to handle large datasets with ease.

By controlling where types or groups of data are stored, powerful querying tools can analyse the data at your request.

Learn more about our five benefits of leaving excel for a sexier database.

1. A Better Relationship

Excel has some good, even commendable attributes like powerful tools and beautiful graphs, but it falls flat when you’re entering big data.

Big Data often needs to be examined or manipulated for a user’s specific outcome or perhaps you need to report on your data from across the world.

Excel also has it’s own data limitations like row limits. Excel will only allow for just over 1 million rows of data per sheet which hinders big data efforts.

If your storing many unique groups of information and the groups are somewhat related to each other then I’m afraid you’re potentially wasting your breath on Excel.

It’s time to upgrade.

A Relational Database is really what you need. So what are the five benefits of leaving Excel for a sexier database?

2. A need to know basis

Only see the data that matters to you right now.

Do you need to know all information about Sally, Fred, and Brian but not Jenn, James, and Alex?

A simple query in a Relational Database can get all this specific information in a breeze!

Depending on your own personalised interface this could be done with a simple click of a single button.

Sifting through spreadsheet columns filtering out information is a real time-consuming task. But a Database Query does all the heavy lifting for you and displays only what you need, matching your specified criteria.

3. A Customisable Face

This benefit of leaving Excel is to do with data visualisation.

There are many options when it comes to how you view your information and one popular way is the simple Form. A Form can display data to you in almost any way conceivable from complex graphs to a single word or number.

In this case, perhaps all we need is a single form that has a button to move to the next Persons Details.

Then another button to move back to the last Persons Details.

But other interface options could include Websites that display your information to only a select few people. Or perhaps an App for your phone.

The interface is completely customisable and custom software is what we do best.

4. Performance Matters

The speed of relational queries is unparalleled and it’s their relationships that drive accuracy.

This alone is a huge benefit of leaving Excel. In a single button click you could sort, filter, edit, add or delete millions of records at a time across the entire collection of tables.

For example, you could select a list of all People’s names starting with the letter “S” who like Rap music and are grumpy. Then we can remove those people.  😄

5. Access from Anywhere

Another of the many benefits of leaving Excel is a “Cloud” based Database.

Access your information from anywhere by utilizing the internet and “Cloud” storage. Pull your data through to Power BI for reporting and dashboards. View and even edit your data on your own websites.

You could try and copy your Excel spreadsheets to a file-sharing solution or perhaps an online email account but you would still need to do the manual filtering and manage updates.

That’s so time-consuming and cumbersome!

Conclusion

If you’re only dealing with a small dataset that is not reliant on other related information then Excel is your go-to.

As soon as you start adding more sheets to your workbook, need to see history, or to track information as it changes over time, then you need to break it off with your Excel partner and treat yourself to a newer, sexier, database.

At ProcessIT we love Sexy Databases and can help you with yours!

There are more than just these 5 benefits of leaving Excel and we offer a full range of Dating (database design), Property Settlement (data conversion), Make-up (user interface design), Anniversary Presents (annual reports), Health Check-ups (optimisation), and even Counselling (User Training).

Talk to ProcessIT now to start dating a sexy database…