Description: End-User Computing (EUC) applications (such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and others) provide a great benefit by allowing users to directly manage, control, and manipulate data. Unlike SAP, Oracle, and other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications that facilitate the automated and integrated flow of transactions and data, EUCs are neither ponderous nor difficult to modify. In fact, EUCs allow businesses and users to quickly deploy solutions in response to shifting market and economic conditions, industry changes, or evolving regulations. They can also help plug functionality gaps for ERP systems. Alas, those same elements that make EUCs so appealing (and vital in providing timely information) can also make them challenging to manage and control effectively.

Description: This article discusses the goals set and progress-to-date for creating a standard file format for economic scenario generation.

Description: This column discusses the use and management of data withn the computer language R.

Description: Discusses Object Oriented, OO, programming language concepts and SOLID Object Oriented principles.

Description: October 2015 issue of CompAct, the technology section's member benefit newsletter.

Description: Reviews different software and/or language choices for data visualization based on 6 dimensions. Number 4 out of a series of 5 articles on data visualization.

Description: This article discusses using Excel to calculate internal rate of return IRR and the potential complications associated with the task.

Description: This article reviews Spreadsheet Check and Control, a book that provides techniques to avoid errors in spreadsheets and to check existing spreadsheets for errors.

Description: This article discusses best practices in designing spreadsheets with the end-user in mind.