************************************************************ DSS Resources News (tm) May 23, 2000--Vol. 1, No. 2 ************************************************************ Please visit http://www.dssresources.com ************************************************************ Featured: * Spreadsheets * DSS News Stories * What's New at DSSResources.COM ************************************************************ Spreadsheets In response to questions ... 1. My preliminary research indicates that the current market is dominated by the Big Three: Excel, 1-2-3 and Quattro. Is that correct? Is there a fourth contender? Do you have any figures on market share for these products? The market is dominated by Microsoft Excel. It has the dominant market share. My guess is more than 60% ... but Market Share is hard to calculate because IBM gives away copies of Lotus 1-2-3 with some systems. The majority of serious spreadsheet users are Excel users. 2. Are there any shareware spreadsheets. Check my page on Spreadsheet Links at http://dssresources.COM/spreadsheets/spreadsheet.html Spreadheet shareware is not a significant factor in the market in my opinion. 3. What are the "must-have" features that any spreadsheet needs to feature these days? The key features needed are the capability to export as HTML, create pivot tables, provide a full set of built in functions, and sophisticated charting. 4. What is lacking in today's applications? What's the single >biggest improvement needed? I only use Excel and Lotus 1-2-3. I don't think much is lacking ... Web integration is much better in Excel 2000 than in Excel 97, but many Microsoft specific HTML tags are added that make it hard to edit the exported Web pages in an HTML editor. You will need to make all changes in Excel and others can import your Web document back into Excel. 5. Is anyone offering a spreadsheet as part of an ASP package? I don't know. I don't think application service providers need to provide spreadsheet applications. Microsoft may try if ASPs catch on. 6. Which spreadsheet do you personally favor and why? Microsoft Excel ... I have used it for 15 years ... first on the Macintosh and now with Windows. Why? It works. Comments are appreciated. ************************************************************ DSS News Stories 05/23/2000 Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server 6 earned the highest enterprise software product evaluation rating from SPEX (www.checkspex.com/). SPEXmark ratings are based on functionality, user-friendliness, technology and market strength. Highlights of the SPEX evaluation are available at hyperion.com/essbaseolap.cfm. 05/19/2000 - RealWare Awards call for entries. CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group announced details of the 2000 RealWare Awards for IT Excellence in Intelligent Enterprise and Imaging and Document Solutions. Check RealwareAwards.com. Entries are due Friday, June 16, 2000. 05/17/2000, M2 Communications - LONDON -- Brio Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: BRIO), announced the beta version of Brio.Portal 7.0. New to version 7.0 are Portal.Pages which combine exception alerts, charts, gauges, news flashes, and business events into an intuitive and easily customised interface. External market information such as news flashes and business events are delivered in Brio.Portal 7.0 along with syndicated content from more than 850 content sources. Brio.Portal 7.0 also includes the ability to proactively monitor key performance indicators, while incorporating Brio's entire suite of product offerings, including its analytics, enterprise reporting and business intelligence. For more information check www.brio.com or e-mail: abell-@brio.com. 05/15/2000 Reminder! The IFIP WG 8.3 Working Conference on Decision Support through Knowledge Management will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, July 9 - 11, 2000. Information on the event can be found at: www.dsv.su.se/DSS-2000/eng_index.html ************************************************************ What's New? at DSSResources.COM 05/14/2000 Added Mind-It Email Alert Service to What's New? page. 05/13/2000 Posted new page Communications-Driven DSS |