Bankloch

In the corporate world, the usage of Excel files is still enormous. Many business tools are still running in Excel, often extended with VBA macros and applications. As an Excel fan myself, I can relate to that, as nothing else allows in such a short time to build a powerful and flexible tool, adapted to your specific business needs. However as a software engineer, I also see the issues with these decentrally managed business tools built in Excel. Typically there are 4 main issues with these tools, i.e. The   lack of central storage The   lack of collaboration possibilities   offered by Excel (we all tried to work on a shared workbook, but don’t think anyone was really satisfied with the result) The   lack of versioning The   (non-)functional limitations   of a tool like Excel. Numerous examples exist of an Excel tool growing continuously in complexity and size, until one day it becomes impossible to maintain, it becomes unacceptably slow and/or you reach th...

Hypes and marketing buzz words are strongly present in the IT landscape. Often these are existing concepts, which have evolved technologically and are then renamed to a new term, as if it were a brand new technology or concept. If you want to understand and assess these new trends, it is important to   reduce the concepts to their essence and compare them with existing technologies , e.g. Integration (middleware) software   ensures that 2 separate applications or components can be integrated in an easy way. Of course, there is a huge evolution in the protocols, volumes of exchanged data, scalability, performance…​, but in essence the problem remains the same. Nonetheless, there have been multiple terms for integration software such as ETL, ESB, EAI, SOA, Service Mesh…​ Data storage software   ensures that data is stored in such a way that data is not lost and that there is some kind guaranteed consistency, maximum availability and scalability, easy retrieval...