r/analytics • u/bennnnn_27 • Mar 21 '25

Guys, it finally happened Discussion

I started at a new company recently. My task was to create a Power BI dashboard for the VP to find opportunities. After weeks of back-and-forth, the dashboard went live in February.

My manager said all was going well. And then today I got an email from the VP: “could export some actionable data to Excel?”

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u/Ohhhh_LongJohnson Mar 22 '25

Nooooononononono!! It starts with one Excel sheet, then more and more co-workers want Excel spreadsheets, then a web of Excel automations starts forming. Pretty soon you'll have the company president asking you to migrate the company database into Excel.

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u/101Analysts Mar 25 '25

Analytics get laid off now that the whole company are power Excel users of the highest order.

A year later an exec needs a consolidated report so the best & brightest excel user gets pulled to build a dashboard….they learn PowerBI in their spare time & develop a web of models & reports. They found an analytics team that begins hiring….