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[quote][i]Originally posted by Opribution[/i]
[br]Origin Ver. and Service Release (Select Help-->About Origin): 
Operating System: Windows 10 Origin 8.0

My partner is insisting that we use origin with excel to plot graphs for probable outcomes of financial investments in marketing campaigns. The idea is to use multiple possible projected quarterly earnings as the variable to determine the investment amount into each campaign.

I'm the one with the accounting background and he has an engineering background, hence his predisposition to origin.

I have no experience with origin and have consulted various threads here and have spoken to a number of colleagues at other companies about using origin for this purpose.

The general consensus I've found is that using origin would be serious overkill for marketing projection analysis in our situation. Especially considering our old version of origin won't even run on our new computers so, we'd have to buy the new version and, I'll have steep learning curve just to be able to use it.

BTW, we are a single location fitness club.

I'd really appreciate if somebody here, with a good working knowledge of using origin for accounting/financial data analysis like this, could chime in with their opinion, as to whether or not I'm totally wrong in thinking that using origin would be overkill.

Thanks.

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Opribution	Posted - 03/11/2019 : 7:47:57 PM Origin Ver. and Service Release (Select Help-->About Origin): Operating System: Windows 10 Origin 8.0 My partner is insisting that we use origin with excel to plot graphs for probable outcomes of financial investments in marketing campaigns. The idea is to use multiple possible projected quarterly earnings as the variable to determine the investment amount into each campaign. I'm the one with the accounting background and he has an engineering background, hence his predisposition to origin. I have no experience with origin and have consulted various threads here and have spoken to a number of colleagues at other companies about using origin for this purpose. The general consensus I've found is that using origin would be serious overkill for marketing projection analysis in our situation. Especially considering our old version of origin won't even run on our new computers so, we'd have to buy the new version and, I'll have steep learning curve just to be able to use it. BTW, we are a single location fitness club. I'd really appreciate if somebody here, with a good working knowledge of using origin for accounting/financial data analysis like this, could chime in with their opinion, as to whether or not I'm totally wrong in thinking that using origin would be overkill. Thanks.
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snowli	Posted - 03/13/2019 : 08:55:54 AM Hello, Thank you for posting your questions on forum. Could you email tech@originlab.com (Attn: Snow) with your SN, phone number so we could setup a gotomeeting with you. We can answer your questions and demonstrate how to use new version of Origin since Origin was developed more than 10 years ago. Many features have been added since then. Such as * multi-sheet with column label rows * more built-in graphs to choose from including openGL based 3d * more data exploration on graph, such as gadgets * easier data manipulation such as filtering, column/cell calculation, stacking/unstacking/pivot table, extract data, etc. * extra apps based on customer request. So if there are some tools not available yet but will be useful to add. We are happy to work with customers. BTW, Origin 8.0 was developed more than 10 years ago so it isn't compatible with new OS. You can see this link for old version compatibilities https://www.originlab.com/index.aspx?go=Support/DocumentationAndHelpCenter/Installation/Windows7andVistaCompatibility Thanks, Snow

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