How can PAW help me?
PAW sits between your spreadsheets and your custom developed applications. When working with data, it provides all of the desktop flexibility you get with your spreadsheets while delivering the productivity and rich feature set of custom applications.
Productivity Benefits Delivered Quickly
Comparison with Spreadsheets
The diagram above shows that using PAW takes little additional effort compared to using your existing spreadsheet application for ad-hoc data massaging or analysis. The benefit comes from the very next time that you need that same analysis or massaging. With PAW, you've automated your process and you get the results immediately.
Comparison with Custom ApplicationsCustom applications are often the other solution when you're trying to do something complex. PAW provides all the power that a custom application might provide, without the months and multitude of people and budget it takes to get a custom application implemented.
PAW in your Technology Toolbox
PAW solves a whole set of needs in your current workday that don't fit well in your current technology toolbox. Spreadsheets are very flexible and quick, but require lots of reconciliation work and are hard to support. Custom applications are expensive to build and manage, justifiable only for stable business processes. PAW is both flexible and quick like a spreadsheet, while delivering productivity benefits from automation like a custom application.
