As I work to get templates created (documents, models, visuals, etc) through Word, Excel, Visio and Sharepoint, I’m thinking to myself “Why can’t we have something a bit more modern to do our daily work?”

Technology has advanced so much but it seems like architecture is ages behind with no clear path to modernize from word documents, spreadsheets, Visio and manual data analysis. I understand that it could be worse (physical paper) but I’m wondering why are we continuing to work this way? Is there something better out there? Some web application to do form like data capture, models, reports, data mining, etc.?