Excel Is Where Products Go to Die | From Excel to Product (Ep. 1)

Most data products start life as an Excel file emailed to a customer — and that's exactly where they die. Here's how to turn one into a real product. Work with us: https://concepttocloud.com Episode 1 of "From Excel to Product" — a build-along series that takes a raw Excel model all the way to a deployed, queryable data product. In this opener: - Why spreadsheets stall the moment they leave your laptop - The synthetic pharma-pricing model we'll build on all series - Where Saiku, LLMs and custom apps fit in the journey - The path ahead: Excel to clean data to model to cube to product Chapters: 0:00 Why this livestream — how we build at Concept to Cloud 3:07 The Excel model: synthetic pharma pricing 6:11 Making data usable with Saiku 7:45 Where LLMs fit in the stack 9:19 Good data vs. good product Saiku (open source): https://github.com/spiculedata/saiku Concept To Cloud builds critical systems for missions that can't afford to fail — MVPs, legacy modernisation, cloud, data and AI infrastructure. Ex-NASA engineers. Start a project: https://concepttocloud.com #dataengineering #excel #dataproducts #analytics #saiku