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0 pointscableshaft2y ago0 comments

I think it's similar to the current generative A.I. trend.

The companies I work for while consulting (mainly financial and health organizations) have been very cautious about any company or PII data going to these A.I. programs, and the cloud in general, and are looking to make their own local run generative A.I. LLMs for their employees to use.

By it's very nature these Excel documents will be filled with company data, so I can imagine these companies would also be a bit cautious sending those calculations to the cloud, especially if they can't control the flow of data from their I.T. departments via web applications.

But I'm just a software engineer at the end of the day, and don't professionally use Excel all that much right now (if anything I use it much more for my hobby of board game design). So I can't speak with too much authority on the matter. Just my observations.

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fzumstein2y ago

> By it's very nature these Excel documents will be filled with company data, so I can imagine these companies would also be a bit cautious sending those calculations to the cloud, especially if they can't control the flow of data from their I.T. departments via web applications.

This is exactly what I see when talking to users about xlwings: it needs to run on their end, behind their firewall, in exactly the cloud they have picked (AWS, GCP, Azure).

chasd002y ago

I do a lot of work with US state governments, it's the same story mostly. It's possible to get the approvals required for data to be shipped off to some "cloud" but it has to be FedRAMP certified and no data can move outside the contiguous 48 states.

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