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		<title>Excel Was NOT &#8216;Originally Designed as a Personal Productivity Tool&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read the business press or Business Intelligence (BI) forums, or if you listen to most IT managers, you&#8217;ll soon hear that &#8220;Excel was originally designed as a personal productivity tool.&#8221;
Well, it ain&#8217;t true!
I know this &#8220;fact&#8221; isn&#8217;t true for three reasons.
First, I was there at the beginning. In the mid 1980s I worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel charts, seasonality, &amp; analysis: Five lessons from the WSJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my tiny town on the Washington coast, I don&#8217;t get the Wall Street Journal until it arrives in our mail box about noon most weekdays. So at breakfast this morning I read an article in yesterday&#8217;s Journal, which offers some great advice for Excel users in business.
Don&#8217;t get me wrong. The article, New Light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Free Offer to Help Excel Users Improve Your Job Prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just heard from another Excel user who&#8217;s out of a job. This set me to thinking &#8212; again &#8212;  about ways that I could help. Here are three issues that I&#8217;ve been wrestling with:
First, many Excel users with great professional knowledge are looking for work. But for many reasons, it&#8217;s difficult for business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel&#8217;s Advantages for Predictive Analytics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Kyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Predictive Analytics is one of 4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence, according to a recent article in Information Week.
&#8220;Predictive analytics,&#8221; the article said, &#8220;is a white-hot growth segment that got hotter with IBM&#8217;s $1.2 billion deal to buy SPSS, a company that uses  algorithms and combinations of calculations to spot trends, risks, and [...]]]></description>
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