MS Excel

Manufacturer: Microsoft
Microsoft Excel - The king of spreadsheet programs. Version just got a whole lot better. There is just so much packed into this product. Also included in MS Office (might be better value for money). Excel helps you get the most out of your data. It features powerful tools that enable you to capture, analyse and share information more effectively, while integration with Windows Rights Management services protects against misuse of sensitive data, meaning you can share information with confidence.

Excel 2003 enables you to turn data into information with powerful tools to analyse, communicate and share results. Excel 2003 can help you work better in teams and help protect and control access to your work. In addition, you can work with industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) data to make it easier to connect to business processes.

Take advantage of data wherever it exists. Excel can read data in any customer-defined XML schema without reformatting. You can analyse and manipulate XML data sources using charts, tables or graphs. Note In all Office Editions, Excel spreadsheets can be saved in a native XML file format which can be manipulated and searched using any program that can process industry standard XML. With Microsoft(r) Office Professional Edition , companies can also use customised XML formats - or schemas - to enable easier and more advanced information creation, capture, exchange and reuse. Develop your own data solutions. Experienced Excel users can use the new visual XML mapping tool to map a user-specified XML schema to fields in an Excel spreadsheet. Analyse data better. Excel builds on its commitment to reliable and accurate numerical analysis with enhancements in collinearity detection, calculations of sum of squared deviations, normal distributions and continuous probability distribution functions.

Customise functionality with enhanced smart tags. Smart tags in Excel are more flexible. Associate smart tag actions with a specific section of a spreadsheet and have the smart tag appear only when you hover the mouse over the associated range of cells. Interact with business systems. Developers can build document-based solutions that take advantage of the XML support in Excel. For example, they can program task panes to display relevant tasks and information to help automate business processes.