Excel and SCOPE comparison

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Cost / Risk / Opportunity Excel SCOPE Benefits of SCOPE
Avoids Excel's high risk of counters overlooking functions causing project estimates to be wrong

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SCOPE's inbuilt functions reduce count errors to avoid risking blowing budgets or delivering projects late

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Avoids Excel's high costs for staff counting and auditing function point counts

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SCOPE saves time and costs because it optimises and automatically reuses previous count data

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Avoids Excel's high risk of count results being wrong due to corrupted Excel formulas

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SCOPE protects calculation formulas and has inherent validation checks to enable you to trust the calculated results

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Avoids Excel's high costs of counting by skilled experienced counters who need to remember the IFPUG rules

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SCOPE reduces counting costs and makes counts more accurate by providing inbuilt rules and an expert system to guide count decisions

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Addresses Excel's low capability to trace user requirements to count processes

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SCOPE optimises auditability of counts and facilitates negotiation with business users by providing features to map user requirements to the count

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Avoids Excel's high overhead costs to aggregate portfolio counts for management reporting

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SCOPE's single database with inbuilt portfolio reports for reporting by Change Request, by project or across application portfolio

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Addresses Excels limited capability to profile projects for input into management decision making

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SCOPE has inbuilt capability to flag and filter functionality to assess different development opportunities for the project

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Addresses Excels inability to manage the integrity of the portfolio of counts

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SCOPE has inbuilt functions to maintain the integrity of your counts

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Addresses Excels inability to ensure the security of the FP data

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SCOPE has inbuilt functions to maintain the security of your counts

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Enables counts to be converted to another FP tool in a standardised format unlike Excel which has no industry standardised format

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SCOPE has inbuilt functions to import counts from Excel and older function point counting tools such as Function Point Workbench™

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