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[–] knobbysideup@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IT isn't developers. What is really needed is a developer on your team, or somebody who at least knows how to lead the effort. I've been that guy.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We do have developers on our team. They write Excel macros :). I work in data integration, so it isn't as simple as building a more robust tool. We still need infrastructure support or our tool doesn't do anything.

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please at least tell me that the Macros are just a front end for ODBC connections to actual SQL servers for ETL functions, and it ALL isn't stored only in excel...?

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's not that bad, the macros are just front end apps. Our data is housed in a real, enterprise class database.