Insights
Notes from the field on Access applications, getting them to users, and modernizing legacy systems.
Your German customer has the data. You already have Excel.
Every new customer seems to bring a new way to exchange data: a portal, an EDI connection, a spreadsheet by email. For a supplier, that often means more manual work on numbers the customer already has. There's another way to set this up. It doesn't need a new application on either side, but it does need your customer to make one decision.
Remote work was urgent. Building a secure data gateway took years.
A look back at how Database Gateway began in the first weeks of the pandemic in 2020. The post covers the later stages of development and describes the product as of October 29, 2026.
In the spring of 2020 the question was simple: how can people work from home tomorrow? Today it's a different one: how do you keep access to business data secure, traceable, fast enough, and maintainable five years from now? In between is the story of a stopgap that worked. That is exactly what made it so hard to replace.