Like Excel, GT documents can contain 255 sheets, with each sheet containing 4095 columns and 1048,575 rows. The amount of data that can be contained in a document is therefore identical.

However, as part of a data collection and analysis process, Gathering Tools will prove to be much more efficient than Excel on large volumes of data:

• GT documents are automatically “sliced” when they are published. Thus, each user will receive a document containing only the data of his perimeter: it is not necessary to copy the totality of the reference frame in all the documents.
• In addition, data is no longer archived in Excel workbooks but in a database, whose capacity is virtually unlimited (524 Petabytes for the Standard version of SQL Server)