When Excel entered the scene in the mid ’80s, businesses discovered an entirely new way to organize and interact with their data. With Excel, enterprises could keep a growing mass of crucial information on a central platform, reducing paper trails and speeding up data analysis.

Even though the move to Excel occurred 30 years ago and organizational demands and workflows have evolved dramatically, most companies continue to operate in nearly the same way. Many daily business operations and years of data are locked in those same Excel spreadsheets. Employees today must sift through headache-inducing troves of spreadsheet data and then spend valuable hours moving relevant information to different platforms and formatting it to make it usable outside of Excel sheets.

Your organization probably has useful data that hasn’t been touched in years, but you could be accessing it to drive growth and business decisions. Using bots to automate the process of unlocking and migrating data currently trapped in Excel to other business functions cuts down on manual labor required from employees and enables teams to return their focus to higher value work. Read On: