Case study

Excel Bridge

The Excel model finance already trusts, behind an app: pick the model, update its inputs section by section, run what-ifs, read the dashboard, and the formulas never leave the workbook.

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Sector: Finance

The build

What the problem was, and what we did about it.

The problem

The model lives in Excel, it works, but it has outgrown Excel.

What we built

An application that brokers every interaction with an Excel model. The business picks a model, works through its input sections with permissions and segregation of duties, runs what-if analysis, and reads the results and dashboards; the formulas stay in the workbook, tested in parallel against the original until the two agree to the cent. Rehabilitation and retirement liabilities, IFRS 16 and IFRS 2 models, cost allocations and budgets have all gone through it.

Illustration: Excel Bridge's home screen, its menu beside its picture

Illustration, close up: a model's inputs in numbered sections, the discount rates by segment ready to save — A closer look
An illustration of the system, drawn for this page with demo data. Nothing shown is a client's own.

Built with

Excel
Power Platform

Feature by feature

What it does.

Spreadsheets, Supercharged
Keep Excel's brilliant formulas and familiar grid. If the model works well, then why discard it?
App-Powered Evolution
Supercharge your spreadsheets with an integrated, user-friendly front-end. An intelligent app now brokers every interaction with your Excel model, enforcing permissions, segregation of duties, and scale.
Beyond the Grid
Real-time dashboards turn buried cells into crystal-clear KPIs and trends with role-based access - insight that Excel alone could never surface.
Securely Slice-and-Share Reports
Export filtered workbooks or PDFs that honour each user's permissions, so data transparency never compromises data security.
Best of Both Worlds
Keep the formulas finance trusts while users enjoy a streamlined, role-based front end - zero re-training with maximum impact. Whether it's your budget, forecast, leases or allocation model, or anything else, an app can facilitate the process for you. Update your model on-the-go with mobile functionality.