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High-Performance, Scalable Excel Solutions, powered by GigaSpaces
Business Challenge
Across industries, heavy users of Microsoft Excel embed complex algorithms into spreadsheets, perform complex modelling and process huge amounts of data. These calculations are usually time-critical, but Excel is not built to handle heavy computations, so users' desktop computers are overloaded with long processing times, and frequently crash altogether, resulting in lost productivity. Collaboration among multiple Excel spreadsheet users and the ability to scale are virtually impossible. Traders and quants in financial services, drilling engineers and geoscientists in Oil & Gas, and analysts in retail and manufacturing are just a few examples of users facing these challenges.
Solution Overview
The joint solution from Microsoft and GigaSpaces combines the latest Microsoft technologies – Office Excel (2003 and 2007), SharePoint Server and Windows HPC Server 2008 (Windows Compute Cluster Server) – with the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) to deliver unparalleled usability, performance, and scalability.
The solution harnesses the power of the data center to scale Excel-based applications:

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