Short Prompt. Excel, in my view, is the most popular engineering and product data management tools. I had chance to discuss Excel multiple times on plmtwine before.
PLM Excel Spreadsheets: From Odes to Woes
Why Do I Like My PLM Spreadsheets?
MS Excel is coming with a set of new visualization features, that I see as a an interesting additional capability for product data visualization. Take a look for more details on the following post in Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering Blog.
How do you see Excel future in the context of PLM?
Best, Oleg