Many companies have operated their business with Excel for decades. It is powerful yet easy to use, however, one of the biggest issues with Excel is that it is hard to integrate an Excel file with other systems and services, especially with a database. If you upload an Excel file as an attachment to a system and have to download it and open it up in Excel whenever you need to edit the file, you are just using Excel in a standalone manner. This is not an integrated solution.
In this article, I will show you how you can make your Excel file work seamlessly in a database-driven web application.