Exponam today announced the launch of Exponam Analyst Intelligence — a major expansion of the product formerly known as Exponam.Connect, and the most significant release in the company’s history. The new release brings natural language query, direct SQL against cloud data, and a choice of private or bring-your-own AI models to business analysts — inside the Excel environment where enterprise analysis actually happens.

The release is generally available today for Databricks customers on Windows, with Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric support following on the near-term roadmap. Existing Exponam.Connect customers receive the new capabilities as part of their current license with no migration required.

Why this release matters

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Every enterprise executive has seen the demo where someone asks a question in plain English and receives a clean answer from their data platform. The expectation that natural language query will reach business analysts — not just data scientists — is now set. The question is no longer whether it happens. It is which product delivers it governed, multi-cloud, and inside the working environment analysts already use.

Exponam Analyst Intelligence is the answer to that question. It is an enterprise-grade intelligence layer that connects business analysts to governed data across major cloud platforms — through AI-driven natural language query, direct SQL, ML model execution, and the original Delta Sharing path that Exponam customers already rely on — all delivered inside Excel, where the analysis actually gets done.

What is new

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Natural language query — governed and reproducible

Analysts describe what they need in plain English — “show me all intercompany service fee transactions between the US parent and the Irish subsidiary for 2022 through 2024, by month, by cost center” — and receive a governed, reproducible dataset in their workbook. No SQL to write. No IT ticket to file. The query Exponam generates is fully visible, editable, and auditable. Every result is a query an analyst could have written and a compliance officer can trace.

Direct SQL — the full cloud query engine, inside Excel

For analysts who prefer to write their own queries, Exponam Analyst Intelligence provides a comprehensive SQL scratchpad with individual and shared workspaces. Any SQL the cloud platform supports — joins, window functions, subqueries, aggregations — executes against the platform’s SQL compute engine with full governance preserved. Results land directly in Excel as static cell values. Refresh is explicit, on demand, and not subject to Excel’s formula recalculation behavior.

Private AI, or bring your own

Natural language query requires a language model to translate questions into SQL. Most products send schema — or worse, actual data — to a commercial API. Exponam gives the customer control. Choose a fully local LLM that runs entirely inside the enterprise perimeter, with no data, no schema, and no tokens leaving the network. For organizations with existing commercial model agreements, connect the preferred provider directly; Exponam passes only schema metadata, never row-level data.

This is consistent with how the entire product has always worked. Exponam is installed software, not a SaaS platform. No data of any kind transits Exponam’s infrastructure during normal operation — not a single row, not a schema definition, not a query. The product operates as a direct bridge between the cloud data platform and the analyst’s workbook. No shadow AI. No data leakage. No compliance exceptions required.

Multi-cloud — starting with Databricks, expanding broadly

Exponam Analyst Intelligence launches today with full support for Databricks, including Unity Catalog governance, Databricks SQL warehouse endpoints, Delta Sharing, and Databricks ML Serving Endpoints callable as native Excel formulas. Support for Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric is on the near-term roadmap. The application layer is abstracted from the platform connection; each new cloud integration follows rapidly from the last.

Every enterprise runs multiple clouds. A Databricks-only tool is a half-tool in a multi-cloud estate. Platform-neutral, analyst-facing intelligence is the position Exponam occupies, and the position platform vendors — by definition — cannot.

What carries forward

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Everything existing Exponam.Connect customers rely on continues unchanged:

• Delta Sharing access for Databricks — zero-DBU data retrieval for filtered, column-selected imports. Still the fastest and lowest-cost path for bulk data access on Databricks.
• Benchmarked performance on Windows — approximately eleven seconds per million rows on Windows VSTO, verified against datasets of 2.88 million rows and larger.
• PivotTable on import, live table updates, quick import, filter favorites, scheduled refresh, and every other Excel-native capability the product is known for.
• Okta and Microsoft Entra ID authentication, centralized configuration, and silent MSI installation for enterprise deployment.
• External data access without workspace accounts — partners and clients access governed Delta Sharing data without a cloud-platform license.

Pricing and availability

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Exponam Analyst Intelligence is free to install and use — up to one million rows per query, with no license required. Enterprise licensing unlocks the full ten-million-row capacity, MSI deployment, centralized configuration, natural language and direct SQL query, ML model execution, and dedicated support.

The Windows edition is generally available today. Mac and browser-based Excel continue to support the Delta Sharing path for Databricks; natural language query, direct SQL, and ML model execution are Windows capabilities at launch. Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric support in the near-term.

On the name

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The product has been known as Exponam.Connect since 2022, and “Connect” has served it well. With the arrival of natural language query, direct SQL, and AI-driven capabilities, a name built around a single function — the connection — no longer describes what the product does. Exponam Analyst Intelligence describes it more fairly: the intelligence layer that sits between governed cloud data and the analyst who needs to use it. The installer and the underlying technical integration retain the Exponam.Connect name where customers expect to see it; everything user-facing carries the new one.

The bottom line

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Exponam Analyst Intelligence delivers AI-powered natural language query with a private or bring-your-own LLM, full direct SQL against the cloud compute engine, zero-compute Delta Sharing where it applies, and ML model execution as native Excel formulas — all with zero data transit across Exponam infrastructure, and a pricing model designed for enterprise scale rather than per-query surprise.

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