ABSTRACT
IN RECENT YEARS, the computing world has witnessed a large-scale adoption of spreadsheet technology by business users worldwide to gather and manage numeric information. Today, spreadsheets have become the de-facto standard for business data analysis. Spreadsheet applications like Microsoft® Excel© are very easy to use, easy to share, have many rich in-built analytic and statistical functions and can handle large volumes of data while still providing sub-second performances and, finally, are easily integrated to web pages on the internet.
