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The Openbox private beta closed late last year, and since then we’ve been concentrating on delivering the improvements that beta users asked for. We’re grateful to the dedicated users who have continued to send us additional suggestions, and we’ve been working to include those as well.

Excel is a tool widely used by analysts of all levels of experience. To avoid repeating errors in the future, let us take a look at 3 of the highest-profile Excel errors from the past and see how steps can be taken to avoid a repeat.

Excel is great, but it is not the answer to every problem. Excel has its limitations and they should be considered before using it in a business-critical application. The decision to use Excel should be an active one, rather than the default option.

In many businesses, Excel is used for critical reporting and decision making. As has been widely trailed, the flexibility and open structure of Excel models can leave them prone to error.

When assessing your Excel financial modelling risk, here are some of the key factors you should consider.

Since the end of the Openbox beta round 3 in October, we've been hard at work fixing the issues our beta users have found and implementing their feature requests. Here is the complete list to date.

Lambda matters a lot. Both because of what it allows Excel to do, and because of what it tells us about how Microsoft sees the future of Excel. Lambda means Microsoft is continuing to develop Excel as a platform for serious analysis, now and in the future.

Excel is involved in every major transaction, every capital investment, every business sale, large or small and most financial forecasts. Decisions worth billions of dollars every single day are based on Excel models.

We set ourselves the challenge of looking at the financial model audit process to see how we can make it faster for our clients.

The Public Sector is gearing up, through the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) to deal with the gargantuan task ahead, of managing the hand-back of the assets of 700+ projects over the coming years.