Call me a data snob, but I’ve got mixed feelings about putting easy, automated analysis into the hands of people who may not totally grasp the limits of what gets spit back. But for better or worse, that’s the promise of BeyondCore Apps for Office — a slimmed-down version of its Enterprise product that runs within Excel.

BeyondCore’s Excel app has one specific purpose: Determine how other factors in your data influence the value of one numerical column in your spreadsheet. That could mean investigating how each of the columns affect something like lifetime customer value or retail sales per square foot.

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