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SCOPE vs Excel® - Cost /Risk / Opportunity | Excel® | SCOPE | Benefits of SCOPE |
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| Avoids Excel’s high risk of counters overlooking functions causing project estimates to be wrong >>Details.... |  |  | SCOPE’s inbuilt functions reduce count errors to avoid risking blowing budgets or delivering projects late >>Details.... |
| Avoids Excel’s High costs for staff counting and auditing function point counts >>Details.... | | | SCOPE saves time and costs because it optimises and automatically reuses previous count data >>Details.... |
| Avoids Excel’s High risk of count results being wrong due to corrupted Excel formulas >>Details.... | | | SCOPE protects calculation formulas and has inherent validation checks to enable you to trust the calculated results >>Details.... |
| Avoids Excel’s High costs of counting by skilled experienced counters who need to remember the IFPUG rules >>Details.... | | | SCOPE reduces counting costs and makes counts more accurate by providing inbuilt rules and an expert system to guide count decisions >>Details.... |
| Addresses Excel’s low capability to trace user requirements to count processes >>Details.... | | | SCOPE optimises auditability of counts and facilitates negotiation with business users by providing features to map user requirements to the count >>Details.... |
| Avoids Excel’s high overhead costs to aggregate portfolio counts for management reporting >>Details.... | | | SCOPE’s single database with inbuilt portfolio reports for reporting by Change Request, by project or across application portfolio >>Details.... |
| Addresses Excels limited capability to profile projects for input into management decision making >>Details.... | | | SCOPE has inbuilt capability to flag and filter functionality to assess different development opportunities for the project >>Details.... |
| Addresses Excels inability to manage the integrity of the portfolio of counts >>Details.... | | | SCOPE has inbuilt functions to maintain the integrity of your counts >>Details.... |
| Addresses Excels inability to ensure the security of the FP data >>Details.... | | | SCOPE has inbuilt functions to maintain the security of your counts >>Details.... |
| Enables counts to be converted to another FP tool in a standardised format unlike Excel which has no industry standardised format >>Details.... | | | SCOPE has inbuilt functions to import counts from Excel and older function point counting tools such as Function Point WorkbenchTM >>Details.... |
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