I recently published an article on LinkedIn entitled “Spreadsheets-as-a-Backend – Part 1: A Business Case“. This is the first of a series of articles on using spreadsheets in the backend of web or mobile applications. Here is a summary from this article: “The term Spreadsheets-as-a-Backend (SaaB) – not to be confused with the Swedish automotive…
Read moreThe first time that a SpreadsheetWEB application is invoked in a user session, the underlying workbook is loaded into memory on the server . This will affect the response time of the first calculation in proportion to the complexity of the workbook. Larger and more complex workbooks typically require more time to load into memory. SpreadsheetWEB…
Read moreThe Pagos SpreadsheetWEB API is designed to execute spreadsheet calculations in a stateless manner where it can be utilized as a back-end calculation engine for applications with moderate-to-large user concurrency. In this article, we aim to compare SpreadsheetWEB’s performance with two other well-known web-based spreadsheet software platforms: Microsoft’s Office 365 Excel and Google Sheets. Microsoft…
Read moreROI Calculators Are Great Lead Generation Tools Modern demographics of potential clients whether B2B or B2C are bombarded by a lot of passive and sometimes intrusive marketing initiatives. This environment makes it difficult to reach your target audience and keep their attention long enough to show why your product is of value to them. Thus,…
Read moreBe it schedule rating, experience rating or retrospective rating; actuaries use data to build complex algorithms to determine premiums and offer customers the best deals available. However, tools that can keep up with an evolving market and dynamic pace are, unfortunately quite limited. Car insurance premiums, for example, need to factor in tons of variables.…
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Repost from LinkedIn. Most applications, albeit web-based or otherwise, incorporate some semblance of business logic – “the part of the program that encodes the real-world business rules that determine how data can be created, displayed, stored, and changed.”[1] Not only do these rules vary significantly from program to program, company to company, and industry to…
Read moreRepost from SpreadsheetWEB.com SpreadsheetWEB allows users to create a user interface (UI) directly from their workbook. While this is a very powerful feature and requires no programming experience, you are limited to a user interface that mirrors the look and feel of Excel applications and, in this capacity, Excel is very limited. We introduced API…
Read moreThe Emergence of the Modern Framework Software development is an expansive, self-propagating industry, wherein innovative technologies are perpetually driving the future and expansion – or, in some sense, the compression – of the software development life-cycle. In this perpetuity, we find that the rise of cutting edge development frameworks facilitate faster speed-to-market, broader accessibility, and…
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We had another great event at Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Austin last week. Exchanging insight with actuaries from a variety of firms; including consulting companies, insurance carriers, as well as educational institutes, consolidated our expertise in the market. Our overall message of empowering actuaries to transform their complex actuarial models into web and…
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repost from LinkedIn. Insurance is a unique, process-oriented industry that poses a unique series of multifaceted challenges. The business requires an intricately woven web, connecting complex processes amongst a multitude of players, including consumers, brokers, local and federal agencies, and carriers. All of this is facilitated by a constant flow of information transmitted in every…
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