Typical warning signs
- Teams are emailing versions back and forth
- Important steps rely on copying between spreadsheets
- Reporting is slow and manually assembled
- One sheet has become business-critical but hard to trust
- Visibility is poor across teams or roles
- The process needs logins, permissions, or workflow controls
Spreadsheets are excellent tools, but they become risky when they move from analysis into being the system that runs a key part of the business. That is usually the point where a web app becomes more practical than one more layer of spreadsheet logic.
Related help
Our replace Excel with a web app page goes deeper on how we approach that transition.