Why Change Perfection?
Title may be an exaggeration for many purposes, however as a commercial valuation surveyor I feel it summarises a question I have to ask myself every day.

I'm talking about Argus Software. We have used Argus Cap for the last 6 or 7 years. I am now having to adapt to Argus Enterprise which I thought would be a step in the right direction. I was wrong. Everything takes twice as long now. Why change what has served us so well for so long with very few issues.

My main point of annoyance is that you can no longer upload tenancy schedules via .CSV files. Fine you can copy and paste many inputs directly from excel...except the areas. Imagine you're valuing a large mall with over 250 tenants and have to enter in every single area...then double check and triple check. What normally took 5 minutes now takes 2 hours. 

The rant could continue, but I need to go continue reading the 1,800 page manual for this crappy piece of software.
[{"id": "e197h4g", "text": "Here's another fun thing: when you enter a Stop Amount recovery method, AE will grow the stop amount by the General Inflation Rate by default. The whole point of a base year stop is that it doesn't change! So you have to make sure to change every stop amount you input back to No Inflation. \n\nThat being said, I'm working on a large (60+ properties) portfolio right now, and the ability to download Argus data directly into Excel, modify hundreds of entries quickly, then upload that data back into the Argus models has saved me probably a solid week of effort so far.\n\nIn the end there's some good and some bad, I guess.", "replies": [{"id": "e19aorb", "text": "How do you import it back into AE from excel. What format does the excel download go into. This could be the key to solving my issue.", "replies": [{"id": "e19bnof", "text": "I believe the first step is to get the Argus Excel Add-in. This will give you a new tab in your ribbon in Excel called \"ARGUS AE.\" You then connect your Excel workbook to your (or your firm's) Argus server. You can also connect to a workstation or Argus On Demand. Once you've done that, you just tell the setup wizard what information you want to pull down (\"Create Input Sheets\") and which model(s) you want to pull from (\"Get Input Data\") and it will fetch you the data. At that point, it's just like any Excel workbook as far as editing goes. When you're done, you can \"push\" the modified entries back up to your Argus model(s) with the \"Send Data To AE\" button. It will run a validation check to make sure it can understand your edits, and then it will overwrite the relevant data in Argus.\n\nFor the specifics of how to do it for your setup, I would bet Argus support would be able to walk you through it in more detail, but that's the gist of it.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]