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business spreadsheet design

DMW can develop spreadsheets for you; assist you in creating these for yourself; or complete, improve and extend your existing ones.

If you need a custom spreadsheet, we bring to bear the experience of working with spreadsheets since the early 1980s when spreadsheets emerged as a serious business tool.

Our experience is not limited to spreadsheets for finance and investment. We have applied them to, for example, product specifications, engineering and scientific subjects, time management and reporting, and estimating and materials lists.

spreadsheet maintenance

Our aim is to make your spreadsheets accurate, efficient, easy to use and reliable as business tools.

Very many of the spreadsheets we see have some of these shortcomings:

Difficult to use
Difficult to amend
Much more complicated than they need to be
No built-in checks for errors
Contain faulty formulae
Contain formulae you don't understand
Never have been tested properly
Contain macros that worked when recorded, but not now
Contain macros nobody understands.

If this list applies to any of your spreadsheets, then these cannot be relied upon and risk yielding faulty information. Consider calling us to give your spreadsheets a health check

four levels of spreadsheet support and maintenance

spreadsheet audit and health check

We report to you on the state of your spreadsheet and make recommendations on fixing faults and improving performance.

We charge a fixed fee for this service dependent on the size of the spreadsheet and the complexity of any macros. You can act on these recommendations yourself or have us fix or re-engineer the spreadsheet for you.

fault fixing

We correct any faults found in your spreadsheet during an audit. We charge a fixed fee determined by the amount of work that needs to be done.

spreadsheet re-engineering

Our aim is to give you the spreadsheet you really want - to rid it of an fault, to make it work properly and reliably, and to make it easy and accurate to use.

Rewriting of macros to professional standards can be included in the service. We charge a fixed fee for this service, the scale of which is determined by the results of an audit and any additional requirements you choose to specify.

annual support

Our ultimate service covers all of the above but is ongoing instead of once only. It should provide you with peace of mind concerning any spreadsheet that is a key business tool.

We work with you to maintain and develop your spreadsheet, to document it and to develop the skills of its users.

An annual agreement covers all aspects of work on the spreadsheet, including periodic health checks and monitoring of efficiency and effectiveness in everyday use.

london, kent, surrey, east sussex, west sussex

We travel regularly to clients in London and the South East. Based near Tonbridge, we are particularly well placed to visit throughout Kent, East and West Sussex, Surrey and London.

For example, client locations have included Ashford, Aylesford, Brighton, Canterbury, Chatham, Chiddingstone, East Grinstead, Edenbridge, Ewell, Godalming, Harefield, Heathfield, Lightwater, London, Maidstone, Maresfield, Orpington, Paddock Wood, Richmond, Rochester, Sevenoaks, Sittingbourne, Tadworth, Ticehurst, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Whitstable and Westerham.

Where our special skills were required further afield we have travelled to Basingstoke, Chelmsford, Devon, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, High Wycombe, Little Barford (Cambridgeshire), Manchester, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Rickmansworth, and Thatcham (Berkshire).