I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

At the beginning of the personal computer era, a student in Boston dreamed up the first electronic spreadsheet. It was a $99 piece of software that changed whole industries — and created a new ...

An old rule of thumb for building a startup is to find a group of professionals who use spreadsheets to do their work and then build an app to replace their spreadsheet usage. Presto, you have a ...

Over the last few decades, we’ve evolved from building custom applications for every esoteric business function to creating outstanding foundational enterprise systems that can run virtually any ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Incisive Software today announced results of a study that evaluates spreadsheet risk. The findings confirm companies are exposing themselves to financial and ...

During the dawn of the PC era, a single program was touted as the “killer app” that fired the market for personal computers. That program was a spreadsheet called VisiCalc. Now, another spreadsheet ...