bpmToolbox / Spreadsheet Standards Review Board

[Excel Chimp]

Curious if anyone has any experience with this Excel add-in. It touts itself as a way to develop models using best practices. There is a free lite version and a full price version.
Also, this company seems affiliated with the SSRB (Spreadsheet Standards Review Board). It's not clear to me that the SSRB has any clout and may simply serve as a mouthpiece for the product the company is selling. In any case it offers some pretty good free tutorials and examples.

http://www.bestpracticemodelling.com/software/bpmtoolbox

http://www.ssrb.org/training


Would be curious to hear opinions from users. Thanks for any insights.

 

[SydneyGeek]

I don't use it personally but I use wrokbooks build using BPM.
My take on it is:
Good for financial modelling, not much use for general analysis (eg pulling data out of databases, then slicing / dicing)
Some really useful fetaures for error checking and building contents / navigation pages
Has a nasty habit of creating bloated workbooks

Denis

 

[Excel Chimp]

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.

I don't use it personally but I use wrokbooks build using BPM.
My take on it is:
Good for financial modelling, not much use for general analysis (eg pulling data out of databases, then slicing / dicing)
Some really useful fetaures for error checking and building contents / navigation pages
Has a nasty habit of creating bloated workbooks

Denis

 

[SydneyGeek]

BTW, I didn't mean to sound overly negative.
BPM doesn't suit the kind of work I do, but if you need highly structured models it makes the job a lot easier.
I do get the feeling that they've attempted to make a spreadsheet behve like a database...

Denis