PROBLEM? - SOLVED!
THE TROUBLE WITH SPREADSHEETS PROBLEM
CURRENT PRACTICE
Like many businesses, companies in the wind energy sector often use spreadsheets to capture and process the data on which they base important decisions. Taking wind turbines as an example, spreadsheets are used to analyse many kinds of information, from performance data and energy outputs to maintenance schedules. The trouble is that spreadsheets are prone to a significant problem; human errors in the data.
COSTLY ERRORS
These errors can be extremely costly when they affect business- critical processes and decisions. Beyond their vulnerability to human error, a more fundamental problem is that spreadsheets are often used in isolation, with the data and insights they contain also isolated as a result, growing further and further apart from data held in other spreadsheets. Factor in complex company structures, and even more complex supply chains, and
data requirements rapidly increase. Companies with high-value assets and complex processes need more sophisticated, less error-prone data-handling solutions than traditional spreadsheets.
SOLUTION
Critical Software Technologies’ bespoke solutions offer the opportunity to build in safeguards to reduce the impact of human errors that could corrupt the data held and processed by wind energy companies. An alternative to traditional spreadsheets, the company’s DE Core software system has quality checks within the data handling process, and is customisable to the specific needs of the wind energy industry.
To support the transition from spreadsheet-based systems, they can run a short study of an organisation’s current data-handling processes, then design a strategic roadmap to help the switch to more sophisticated software tools. These tools can be tailored to an organisation’s specific requirements, by processing data into more useful forms of information. This increases data accuracy and reduces the financial and reputational costs of errors.
BESPOKE SOFTWARE
In this way, this bespoke software solutions offer wind energy companies the opportunity to better integrate and analyse data, enabling them to gain real insights through merging and representing data from the entire organisation, rather than using data locally, spreadsheet-by-spreadsheet. This allows people to work with and share information in a more unified, accurate and reliable way, creating new perspectives that inform business- critical decision-making processes.
Critical Software Technologies
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Companies in the wind energy sector often have to process and analyse complex data from diverse sources. Relying on traditional spreadsheets limits the usefulness of these data and makes them vulnerable to error.
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