Re: So.......
If you have Excel, everything looks like a spreadsheet.
I've already replied to one of your comments on this topic with a snarky post but from a user perspective, a lot of the value of getting a clue in Excel is how amazingly versatile it is, so that you don't need to learn how to use a dashboard set up by Vogon A and another tool from Vogon B, you just put the data in Excel and use one tool.
Not saying that everything should be in Excel. It most definitely shouldn't, and as a reporting tool (guessing at that from how you've described it), your system is probably better. For going in and digging around the data, Excel is quite possibly superior.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
