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In a development lab, I may be well familiar with what the CDS can do - but it's often simply quicker to export data to Excel, where I can manipulate it easily, and try different things with the raw data, to tease out the information I'm really looking for. Doing that kind of data manipulation in, say Empower or Chemstation requires in-depth knowledge of the software - and that in-depth knowledge is hard to come by.
Excel has been around forever, and is useful across multiple laboratory disciplines. In my lab, I generate data in Empower as well as ChemStation...and 32Karat, and SoftMax, and ProteinSimple's software, and Agilent's Bioanalyzer atrocity, and...well, you get the idea. I don't have the time to get an in-depth knowledge of each and every one of those software suites...but my knowledge of Excel translates pretty well across all of them.
Once the method I develop moves to a QC lab, then I'll worry about fine-tuning it to have the CDS do everything; but for development purposes, I'll stick with Excel.