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New Thu 7 Feb 19 00:51 
 Work Dilema - zippy
A senior director has given me a quote to check over from an IT subcontractor to make a small system change that he wants.

The subcontractor provides software that provides reports only. Some are real time, some are on demand and some are monthly. All the data comes from our system.

They provide exactly the same software to many other lending institutions.

One on demand report is a simple list with all our customers and then two figures, a rating for this month and a rating for last month between 0 and 100. The report is CSV based.

The senior director asked for the difference between the two figures to be calculated so that the report can be sorted by the biggest change.

The software company has quoted £8k+VAT! The quote is six pages long and is full of waffle but effectively includes one sentence confirming the calculation: Difference = A-B.

The same result can be had from importing the CSV in to Excel and adding the following formula in column d =a2-b2 and copying down the list then sorting the results.

Now, how do I go about telling the director that there is a really easy way to save £8k without making him look silly (which is something I want to avoid for obvious reasons)?
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