Alumni Discussion Club Event with Rihards Garancs: Is MS Excel still a relevant tool in modern office?

Historically MS Excel has been the backbone for most companies but in modern data driven age it clearly has its limits. With multiple Business Intelligence platforms and analytics tools available is MS Excel a relevant tool?

On the other hand, even when modern tool are used, why employees still use it? Why employees cling on to MS Excel? What MS Excel offers that all other tools cannot substitute?

Rihards Garancs is the Director of Artificial Intelligence & Data Analysis Course at SSE Riga (also a graduate of the Class of 2012). His area of expertise includes database development, data visualization, data and financial reporting automation, efficiency improvement. Rihards runs a consulting company that develops Business Intelligence solutions. His focus is to help companies advance in business analytics using the latest digital tools. Rihards has worked for the clients in the Food & Beverage, Telecommunications & Digital, Media and Manufacturing industry. He complements his knowledge by attaining a double degree MBA in HEC Paris and National University of Singapore and Data Science certification in Paris.