diff --git a/content/feed/legacy-data-ingestion/index.md b/content/feed/legacy-data-ingestion/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7efb2c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/feed/legacy-data-ingestion/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +--- +title: 'Struggling with Legacy Data Ingestion?' +description: Filename conventions, network drives, ancient formats and 5am batch failures - legacy spreadsheet ingestion hurts everyone. With Data Controller for SAS®, those issues disappear. +date: '2026-08-24 09:00:00' +author: 'Allan Bowe' +authorLink: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanbowe/ +tags: + - Announcements +previewImg: './legacy-data-ingestion.jpeg' +--- + +Do you struggle against legacy data ingestion processes? + +Are your analysts saving spreadsheets with a particular filename, on a particular network drive, on a particular day, with a specific structure? + +Perhaps your process necessitates an ancient format (.xls, Excel '95) or particular encoding. + +Sucks, right? + +It sucks also for the Platform Manager, who gets the email at 5am when the batch breaks due to something not-quite-right in said input file. + +Or the Data Engineer, spending all day knocking out generic excel import routines. Or the sponsor, paying for a broken process, that should take seconds. + +With Data Controller for SAS®, all these issues... disappear. + +Thanks to our OEM licence of [SheetJS](https://sheetjs.com), analysts can self-serve data uploads via the browser - no (insecure) network drive needed, nor thick client install. + +And the data really can be **anywhere** in the workbook - in any shape, spread across any number of disparate sheets, ranges and cells. A range of [import options](https://docs.datacontroller.io/excel/) handles everything from clean tabular sheets to sprawling financial reports. + +Once automatic validations and DQ checks pass, and approval received, the target table is updated and any onward jobs are triggered. Needless to say, there is a full audit trail right back to the original excel file. + +Not only that - you can load ANY database, SAS dataset, format, or CAS table. New data targets are configured by the admin - zero code, nothing to deploy or drag through to production. + +There is also a [community edition](https://datacontroller.io/pricing/), free for unlimited users (restricted by rows). + +If you'd like to excel by spending less time on Excel - [let's chat](https://datacontroller.io/contact/). + + + + diff --git a/content/feed/legacy-data-ingestion/legacy-data-ingestion.jpeg b/content/feed/legacy-data-ingestion/legacy-data-ingestion.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..062dee9 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/feed/legacy-data-ingestion/legacy-data-ingestion.jpeg differ