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Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Title Date Analyzing Performance Factors Systems Interface MS Excel is a systems interface that people use daily in the course of data entry and data analysis and preparation of schedules. Schedules can be looked at as a time management instrument that describes the specific period where certain activities can be undertaken. The application can help organize schedules in a chronological order and the sequence often dictates the attainment of certain goals. Scheduling refers to the course of coming up with a specific schedule, as it entails coming up with an intricate order for the attainment of a given task and allocation of the specific resources necessary for their execution. Workload Analysis The red line of workload refers to the point where the systems transverses safe and effective multitasking to dangerous and ineffective multitasking (Grier et al 1204). Excel is a powerful tool that can multi-task on a variety of functions, and when used for such simple tasks as scheduling, data entry and analysis, but it could be difficult determining the red line workload point for excel. Despite the apparent level of proficiency associated with excel, it cannot be effective at a certain level. This is because tracking huge amounts of items on the application software increase the chances of errors, in particular, when a data item frequently moves from one location to another. Besides, it demands that one spends an excessive amount of time authenticating the values in the workbook. To optimize usage of the application, one can use tables to hold the given data items, use named ranges or formula when tracking down data
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