Spreadsheet Sprawl – Uncontrolled Proliferation of Spreadsheets across the Organization: Challenges, Risks, and Solutions.

Spreadsheet Sprawl – Uncontrolled Proliferation of Spreadsheets across the Organization: Challenges, Risks, and Solutions.

Excel spreadsheets are ubiquitous in organizations of all sizes, used for everything from financial calculations to contact lists. Over time, however, a sprawl of Excel files across employee devices and shared drives can develop. This “spreadsheet sprawl” refers to the uncontrolled proliferation of spreadsheets in multiple locations – local desktops, email attachments, personal cloud folders – outside any central oversight. The convenience and f…