TheCoreyMatthews

Excel has a language behind the scenes called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). You can use this to add functionality to a workbook. As a separate program, you could use Visual Basic an create an executable file.

What considerations are in the pipeline for size and speed improvements? Given the rapidly growing amount of data being collected and growing popularity of alternative analytic platforms such as R, SAS, Tableau, etc., is anything in the works to allow Excel to compete with these platforms? What is currently limiting size and performance now that 64bit processing is ubiquitous?

-Group of consulting analysts