The use-case you describe is exactly what we built it for. There are a lot of people who have data that is no longer human-scale and won't fit into Excel, but they still want to use their Excel skills.
We love Excel and spreadsheets, but when working at AWS we found we just had too much data to fit into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI_riscmviI&list=PLJsVF3gZDc...
Its Martin Skreli (yes that one) -- but see how fast this guy is with excel... this is what I imagine when I think of excel power users...
(But also, he does a lesson in DD on investing and doing calcs in Excel - so aside from awesome Excel input, there is good investing info here - recall this was the guy that bought a medical company and immediately raised the price 7,000% or some such (he then bought the Wu Tang Album whilst imprisoned)
I imagine many professions won't be able to use Excel in 10 years based on this trend.
Unless Microsoft invests in row zero as a "distribution partner" as it did with Mistral, you mean: Row Zero, available now on Azure.
There, I fixed it for you.
You generate 1gb of critical financial data...that most of your Excel die-hard users can't actually use because their computer can't handle it.
How does your org complete any work then?
perhaps via some more "accountant friendly" app than SQL?
That said, I suppose that's partly the goal of this product... a visual/faster alternative to SQL though I personally avoid putting big data in excel, I just (as an accountant myself) carve out subsets from SQL and then peruse it via excel to identify whatever transactions/activity I need to analyze since the web interface for the ERP is such slow steaming garbage...
I'm more in search of a better excel than an excel which can handle big data as I suspect many users will somehow, no matter how well this is built, make it slow/terrible whereas an SQL based approach could be multiple of orders of magnitude faster....
The biggest issue that I think I would run into in my organization is that all of the spreadsheet lovers are Excel die-hards and they refuse to even use Google Sheets, not to mention something else that isn't Excel.
But maybe they could finally be convinced to stop complaining aboutrequesting huge files with something like this...