Apart from excel which tools/softwares do consultants use?? Like SQL or tableau or anything else??

Hi Guneet,

If you are in strategy consulting it's mostly

• Excel
• PowerPoint

and rarely Alteryx and Tableau.

For every more advanced task, you are usually outsourcing the analytical work to internal analysts/support staff.

Cheers,

Florian 

Hi Guneet, the basics are always Excel and PowerPoint.

In PowerPoint - consultants also use ThinkCell and Efficient Elements.

Tools like Tableau / PowerBI / Alteryx / SPSS - are used - but seldom.

For project management - tools like Slack and Trello are used - depending on the organisation.

Other tools can include some proprietary systems - such as BCG Key.

Hi,

Consultants frequently use:

• Excel
• Powerpoint

Less frequently (and heavily case dependent):

• Tableau
• PowerBI
• Alteryx

Best,

Oliver

Hi,

Everyone has made the point that excel and powerpoint are the basics. 

Beyond that on the job - you may end up using specific tools or software depending on 

1. The needs of the project
2. The availability of internal expertise
3. Project budget (i.e. maybe you end up learning a tool because doesn't make sense to pay someone else to do it)

Nowadays more collaborative tools are being used - like Miro for whiteboarding etc. 

Excel and Powerpoint are really the bread and butter. 

Slack is super popular as a teams communication tool. 

Tableau and Alteryx once you get into data science AA projects.

But that's about it. 

Most of the work is cognitively fancy, not technically fancy.

Best,
Cristian

Don't forget pen a paper :)

SQL not really.

Tableau and Alteryx, it can happen. But you may spend 2 years in consulting and never touch any of these.

What you need is Excel and Powerpoint. And for the other, if necessary, you'll get training (by the way, they are fairly simple).