Does it sound like a dream? We see a lot people coming to us at DataDirect looking for improvement of Microsoft Access connectivity. Because even with much more sophisticated tools available, Microsoft Access is still beloved by many as an internal Business Intelligence tool and information storage....

From recent consulting projects, I have learned that analyzing data in Microsoft Office enables unique and valuable business insights across an organization.  In particular, these projects were based on ODBC connectivity to Excel/Access from applications such as SAS (SAS/Access interface to ODBC),...

This second post in the series Integrating Office applications with Salesforce.com talks about querying Microsoft Office Word forms.

This is in no way a complete introduction on WordProcessingML, or the...

As a regular reader of this blog, you probably remember we discussed at various occasions the ability to query, update and create Microsoft Office documents, using the DataDirect...

The image of the herald is one that pervades Western culture. The Biblical image of the archangel Gabriel announcing the forthcoming births of both John the Baptist and Jesus is one that Christians are very familiar...

I'm a propeller head - or at least, I used to be one until I traded in my cap for a marketeer's (sic) fez. My techie colleagues have been mostly forgiving of my decision to "sell out" on my former role as a technical support engineer. They have mercifully opted to forgo making references to cliches...

Or rather, pick on them, but save some energy for others committing the same SOA infrastructure crimes.

A lot of commotion around Microsoft "missing the SOA boat" in the blogosphere over the last couple of days. I find it interesting on a number of levels.

Why only pick on...