Data Engineering

Drowning in CSVs: The Excel Trap

When "Finance_Final_v3_REAL.xlsx" runs your company, you are in trouble.

Excel is the best calculator in the world. It is the worst database in the world. Yet, 90% of businesses treat it as one. When your critical business logic lives in a spreadsheet on someone's desktop, you have a Single Point of Failure.

The Version Control Nightmare

Who has the latest version of the pricing model? Is it Dave? Is it on the shared drive? Did Sarah overwrite the formula in cell C45? Excel provides zero audit trails and zero data integrity enforcement.

The Database Solution

We migrate your "Excel databases" to Postgres or Snowflake. But we don't take Excel away from you:

  • Centralized Storage: Data lives in the cloud, secure and backed up.
  • Live Connections: Your Excel sheets connect to the database via ODBC. You hit "Refresh," and the latest data appears.
  • Access Control: Sales can read the data, but only Ops can write it.
Case in Point

"A construction firm managed huge project bids in Excel. One formula error cost them $50k on a quote. We moved the pricing logic to a SQL database. Now, Excel is just a view layer. Errors were eliminated."

Keep the Interface, Change the Engine

You love Excel. We get it. Keep using it. just stop storing your business in it.

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