Is "Microsoft Office Web Components" the best thing to use?

[Eliezer]

I am about to begin writing a web page for my company's
intranet. The purpose of this page is to replace the
current system of reimbursements: the employee requesting
the reimbursement fills out an Excel "Expense Statement"
template, emails it to the accounting department, and it's
manually processed from there.

What I plan to do is to replicate that Excel sheet on my
intranet page, accept the employee's data, and dump it to
a database. My first thought was that if I could exactly
replicate the currently used Excel sheet - that would the
best thing. So I've been considering using the "Microsoft
Office Web Components" to use that exact Excel sheet.

Is using "Microsoft Office Web Components" overkill for
this purpose? Is there a simpler/easier/faster way to
accomplish this?

Thank you very much!
Eliezer

 

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

Its not overkill because your clients are already accustomed to the product
and there is no learning curve. Secondly, it is a lot easier and faster for
you to use a proven component than rolling your own code with datagrids etc