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Supercharging Your Excel Spreadsheets

October 6, 2026

What if I told you that you could supercharge your Excel spreadsheets and transform them into powerful software applications? Applications that will connect to your internal and external data sources via APIs, with forms that allow your users to perform specific actions and enter data in a controlled and validated way. Read more →

The Little Database Engine That Could

October 4, 2026

Data management products have come a long way in the last 10 years. From data warehouses to big data, from on-prem to cloud-based, from data lakes to delta lakes. So why on earth in 2026 would I be writing an article about Microsoft Access? Well, before you click the back button, just give me a chance to fight its corner. Read more →

What is Financial Data Intelligence?

November 8, 2025

In organizations today, we have more data than ever, yet it can sometimes feel that we have fewer clear answers. Dashboards multiply, reports grow thicker, and analytics teams wrestle with ever-expanding data, but decision-makers can often find themselves no closer to clarity. The problem isn’t data scarcity. It’s data fragmentation.

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