Why Isn't Excel an OMS?

摘要

Walk onto any Wall Street trading floor once you get past secu rity ,of course-and look around, It doesn't matter if you're perusing a buy side or sell side firm, a hedge fund or a broker-dealer, because you'll see the same thing: Rows and rows of well-dressed, smart-looking people staring at flat panel displays. What are they looking at? Along with email and IM, Web browsers and proprietary tools, more often than not they're staring into Microsoft Excel.