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Determinism in the age of AI
Perspective Determinism in the age of AI AI for the business functions where a probable answer is not an answer Herman Weintraub, CEO · September 2026 TL;DR Large language models produce the most plausible answer.…
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Exponam Analyst Intelligence vs. the Databricks Excel Add-in
Product News Exponam Analyst Intelligence vs. the Databricks Excel Add-in A one-page comparison of cost, usability, extensibility, and functionality. Exponam, LLC · July 2026 TL;DR The Databricks Excel Add-in is…
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The analysis that never gets a dashboard
Perspective The analysis that never gets a dashboard Every wave of analytics tooling promised to absorb the one-off question. Each time, it flowed back to the spreadsheet. Herman Weintraub, CEO…
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Private by architecture, not promise
The compliance question for regulated firms is not whether to use AI – it is where the model runs. A private, local model keeps natural-language query inside the perimeter.
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Federation is not the same as neutrality
Perspective Federation is not the same as neutrality Federation is the platforms’ answer. It is not the analyst’s. Roger Dunn, CTO · May 2026 TL;DR The analyst working in Excel,…
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Introducing Exponam Analyst Intelligence
Exponam today announced the launch of Exponam Analyst Intelligence — a major expansion of the product formerly known as Exponam.Connect. Natural language query, direct SQL against cloud data, private and…
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Databricks has built an Excel add-in.
Update — April 23, 2026. Six weeks after this post, both products have moved. See the April 2026 update for what has changed: Databricks has simplified admin-driven installation and named…
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Compute-Free Data Access in Excel: A Lower-Cost Path to Enterprise Adoption
January 22, 2026 Enterprise adoption is often limited by a simple constraint: interactive compute doesn’t scale economically to every business user. Many access patterns — whether that’s direct query through…
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Exponam.Connect vs. the competition
June 5, 2025 [Download this article as a pdf] TL;DR Exponam.Connect is the ideal choice for business and technical users to pull data from a Databricks Lakehouse into Excel. Exponam.Connect…
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What Data Platform Companies Don’t Understand About Democratizing Data
May 29, 2025 TL;DR: Data platform companies are integrating generative AI into their offerings, believing it will make their products more accessible to non-technical business users. They are mistaken. Most…
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Exponam Proud to Sponsor Databricks DATA+AI 2025
Exponam is proud to be a sponsor of the Databricks DATA+AI Summit happening June 9-12 in San Francisco. We will be exhibiting our Exponam.Connect Excel Add-in solution. Exponam.Connect is the…
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Support for Deletion Vectors and Databricks Runtime 14.3
30 May 2024 – For Immediate Release Earlier this month, Databricks implemented Deletion Vectors as the default for writing Delta Lake tables. This default caused errors and failures in applications…
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Databricks Model Execution in Excel with Exponam.Connect
24 May 2024 Today, Exponam announced that Databricks Model Execution from within Excel is in private preview. Enterprises can now make their models available to the entire organization – analysts,…
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Table Discovery in Excel
New Feature Alert! – Enhanced Data Discovery For Release 5/3/2024 The Exponam.Connect Excel Add-in for Databricks now includes easy to use data discovery features for non-technical users. This is in…
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Pivot Tables from Databricks Data
Just click “Add Pivot Table” and when you import data from Databricks into Excel with the Exponam.Connect Add-in, your PivotTable is automatically added! Exponam.Connect is the Easiest, Fastest, and Cheapest…
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10 Million Rows!
That’s right – Import 10,000,000 rows of Databricks data into Excel! If you haven’t tried the Exponam.Connect Excel Add-in, now is the time. This is the fastest, cheapest, and easiest…
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New Search Features
You can now change the order of columns in preview and during import to Excel. The preview screen includes a new option to view only select columns. A new search…
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New, Easier Excel Filtering in Exponam.Connect
October 24, 2023 — Product Update Databricks partner Exponam now enables the easiest filtering of Databricks Data in Excel. Right-click and you’re done! Contextual filtering means filtering is now one…
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Databricks to Excel: Exponam.Connect or ODBC?
October 6, 2023 — Product Comparison Recently, we evaluated the new Databricks ODBC driver. We have compared and contrasted using ODBC vs Delta Sharing & Exponam.Connect for pulling data into…
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Exponam.Connect proud to be a Databricks Gold Sponsor
September 13, 2023 — Event Join Exponam.Connect at the Data+AI World Tour in New York on November 8th. We’re proud to be a Gold Sponsor of this event. Come by…
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Delta Sharing Technical Deep Dive at DAIS
If you didn’t get to Roger Dunn’s Session at DAIS 2023 on Delta Sharing, watch the recording now. All the hints and tricks you need to know for developing an…