OIT does not actively maintain these pages. The spreadsheet records and displays information in an organized fashion, which is easy for most people to understand.
Many spreadsheets also contain graphing functions, to present data in a visually appealing format.
With all their familiarity, power, and ease of use, spreadsheets are the tool of choice for many people in a wide variety of situations. For these very reasons, however, people are occasionally tempted to force spreadsheets into situations for which they are not well suited. Some things which are difficult to do or error prone in spreadsheets, can be done easily and reliably in databases. Other things, such as calculations and formulas, are much easier to accomplish in a spreadsheet. On the whole, it does require more thought to design and set up a database than to open up and start entering data into a spreadsheet.