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Strongly agree on scaling Excel. Excel is deeply entrenched in corporate environments because it's the go to tool for users when IT depts can't or won't deliver
by osullivj 11y ago
Strongly agree on scaling Excel. Excel is deeply entrenched in corporate environments because it's the go to tool for users when IT depts can't or won't deliver what they need. Consequently there's a huge amount of Excel based end user generated solutions out there that are business critical. Looks like ThingieQuery has hit a sweet spot for power users working on Excel-as-a-DB type problems. Another outfit taking the scale up Excel approach is BlockSpring. Thingie could add a lot of value manipulating BlockSpring imported data. My own interests lie in Excel-as-calc-engine rather than DB, and I think there's a lot of value to be had in scaling up calcs by serverizing.