Territory and quota planning · Named, not rankedMicrosoft Excel
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Microsoft Excel has 2.
Why models recommend it
“tools like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets can be customized with templates”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Experts advise avoiding reliance on the following for serious territory planning: ... Microsoft Excel (For Mapping Only)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Excel, over the 6 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
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| 1 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → | |
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A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Microsoft Excel's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Customers named
- Lenovo, VIVID, G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Virgin Money, E.ON, Milpark Education
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, Canada
- Founded
- 1975
- Also from Microsoft
- Azure Synapse, Bing Webmaster Tools, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Accessibility Insights, Microsoft Ads and 52 more
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 4 of the 6 answers that named Microsoft Excel and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Excel came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |