Data services in your spreadsheet!

  • Authors:
  • Régis Saint-Paul;Boualem Benatallah;Julien Vayssière

  • Affiliations:
  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;SAP Research, Brisbane, Australia

  • Venue:
  • EDBT '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Extending database technology: Advances in database technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

End-user programmers---the 45 million of them, as estimated for 2001 in US alone [7]---routinely use spreadsheet to visualize, manipulate, and analyze data. Thanks to this environment, they can build applications that solve their daily problems. Even building a report can be seen as programming an application that takes corporate data as input and outputs a presentation. To build this application, spreadsheet users have to import data and place them in spreadsheet cells, highlight the important pieces, compute maybe some aggregates, add a chart or two. If well done, this application will be used each time data are updated to effortlessly produce a fresh report.