Microsoft Excel is a great and powerfull tool - but really, it's not a database.
As soon as we have some kind of tabular data, Excel is one of the most often used tools to manage it. Here's why you shouldn'd use it for product data.
Again, Excel is a fantastic tool, it's just not made for product data management. In our experience the most frequent problems are...
We're PIM software vendor and so we'll tell you PIM systems are much better for editing products than Excel. But there's a simple background: Our founders and most of our team members have long time experience with product data and especially Excel. We know how product data looks like in Excel and spend hours and days working on such files. That's why we decided to build this system.