Use AI to Build a Better Spreadsheet, Then Turn it into a Web App
Most of the AI conversation around Excel predicts its replacement. Meanwhile, the people who actually build spreadsheets are using AI to make them better than ever. AI assistants now write and explain formulas, generate VBA, suggest error handling, and document logic that has gone unexplained for years. Microsoft ships Copilot inside Excel itself, complete with […]
Three Paths from Spreadsheet to Web Application
Your company probably has at least one. A spreadsheet that started as a quick tool and then became the engine behind quoting, pricing, rating, or planning for your entire team. It holds years of refined business logic, and the people who depend on it trust the numbers it produces. It also breaks in ways that […]
How Microsoft’s Excel Macro Security Changes Are Affecting Operations Teams in 2026
A Security Fix That Came at a Cost In February 2022, Microsoft announced it would block VBA macros by default in Office files downloaded from the internet. After a brief rollback in response to user feedback, the change resumed rollout across Microsoft 365 for Windows later that year, covering Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word. […]
How to Turn Insurance Rating Data into Analytics with EASA’s Built-In Database
If your rating tools live in Excel, you already know the drill. Files get emailed around, saved with names like rater_v3_FINAL_use-this-one.xlsx, and the results exist only as isolated snapshots on someone’s desktop, with no central record and no way to look back for analytics. EASA changes that by surrounding your existing rating spreadsheets with the […]
LLM Application Pre-fill for MGAs: Faster Insurance Submissions with AI
Every day, underwriting teams receive applications across a patchwork of formats: PDFs from brokers, spreadsheets from agents, emails with attachments, scanned ACORD forms. Someone on your team opens each one, reads through it, and manually keys the data into your quoting or policy administration system. It’s repetitive, error-prone, and expensive and it’s consuming hours that […]
How to Get Better AI Outputs from Your Excel-Based Web Apps
When you deploy an Excel spreadsheet as a web app with EASA, you get something most AI integrations struggle to find on their own: clean, structured, consistently labeled data. Every time a user fills out a form or runs a calculation in your EASA app, the output lands in organized fields like product names, pricing […]
Zurich: Deploying Rating Spreadsheets with Database Integration
Zürich Financial uses Excel for CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote). However, these spreadsheets are constantly updated to reflect changes in the market, and new spreadsheets containing pricing models for new product lines are frequently added. Using EASA, Zurich has deployed these pricing tools as secure and simplified web apps which use the business logic of the original spreadsheets. This has been accomplished without incurring the high cost of programming custom solutions, and without discarding the original spreadsheets.
Pfizer: Corporate-Wide Deployment of Modeling Technology
Zürich Financial uses Excel for CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote). However, these spreadsheets are constantly updated to reflect changes in the market, and new spreadsheets containing pricing models for new product lines are frequently added. Using EASA, Zurich has deployed these pricing tools as secure and simplified web apps which use the business logic of the original spreadsheets. This has been accomplished without incurring the high cost of programming custom solutions, and without discarding the original spreadsheets.
Ingersoll Rand: Managing Spreadsheets in the Age of Digital Transformation
Ingersoll Rand relied on many End User Computing Tools such as Microsoft Excel and Access, that had been developed for their specific needs. Although these tools offered the required flexibility and agility that was lacking in traditional CPQ software systems, they had their own limitations. With EASA, Ingersoll Rand were able to create enterprise-grade applications that completely protected their IP and eliminated typical spreadsheet management issues.
P&G: Democratization of CAE and Spreadsheet Models
Proctor & Gamble democratizes a variety of simulation models, making them accessible to a much broader user community. This is achieved by using EASA’s patented “appification” technology to create a proprietary “app store” of intuitive and intelligent apps that drive complex multi-step, multi-software workflows that were previously accessible only to a small group of experts.