Marco’s IT consultant, Lena, walked in the next day. “You don’t need to rewrite your ERP,” she said. “You need an .”
Lena nodded. “ODBC is a universal translator. It makes your TopSpeed database look like any other SQL database to applications like Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or even Python.”
Every request ended the same way: “Sorry, that data is locked in our old system. I can export a CSV for you… tomorrow morning.”
One Tuesday, the CFO, Priya, needed a live cross-tab of sales by region and product category for a 9 AM board meeting. She asked Marco at 8:15 AM. Marco sighed, ran a manual report from TopSpeed, exported to CSV, cleaned up the column headers, and emailed it at 8:55 AM. The data was already 12 hours old.