Sync supports Real Time Data Analysis and Self Service Business Intelligence by giving MS Excel users the possibility to connect to dynamic data source, i.e., to data sources that expose data evolving over time. Any information system or ERP can use the SpreadSheetSpace connector to expose internal tables to MS Excel users, who can import such tables in their spreadsheets. The additional value, with respect to the typical data extraction in Excel format, is that by importing an exposed table a MS Excel user creates a channel between the spreadsheet and the data source, in such a way that when a new version appears the update automatically appears in the user spreadsheet.

Engineers, managers and executives can hook to information systems, appropriately authenticated and authorized, to have the latest view of the tables of their interest in their spreadsheets. That is Real Time Communication. In addition, SpreadSheetSpace records all the data versions in such a way to allow MS Excel users to navigate over the version history. Through SpreadSheetSpace a MS Excel user can apply the spreadsheet analyses, charts and reports to the past to see the business evolution.