This week I met with a potential client for our integration platform (iPaaS). Their business centers around interpreting financial data and that means ingesting

This week I met with a potential client for our integration platform (iPaaS). Their business centers around interpreting financial data and that means ingesting raw data from different sources. The guy who handles this has set up a SQL database and pulls data in via FTP and email. Outlook sits open on a server so that Outlook message rules can be used to fire up a VBScript which in turn calls a stored procedure to ingest the data. There are a bunch of combinations of these to deal with different feeds. He's a brilliant guy and he's used the tools he knows (not a dev) but it's brittle and only he knows how to support it. It's unlikely they'll move to our platform (invasion of his turf) but I do hope he finds another solution that's more reliable.