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A leading commodity intelligence sector noticed something surprising: users were still copying data manually from dashboards into Excel for analysis. Despite having advanced tools, Excel remained their comfort zone.
To solve this, iFour built a custom Excel Add-in that connects directly to the platform. It brings live, authenticated, real-time market insights straight into spreadsheets.
No more copy-paste, no more delays. Just faster workflows fueled with automation and accuracy.
Impacts Observed:
Manual Work
Fewer Errors
Hrs. Saved Weekly
Faster Decisions
Data Accuracy
Our Netherlands-based client serves buyers, sellers, and traders across 85+ countries who rely on accurate agricultural market intelligence.
Industry: Agricultural Data & Market Intelligence
Geography: Global, headquartered in Amsterdam
Size & Operations:Founded in 2018, employs ~51–200 people, trusted by 2,000+ professionals, covering 75+ commodities with 3,000+ data series
Initial Approach & Where It Failed: Their Analysts relied fully on MS Excel for custom models. This makes the workflow slow, manual, and error-prone.
Why They Came to Us: For an AI-powered solution supporting automated analytics, real-time pricing forecasts and market insights across multiple agricultural sectors.
As adoption grew, so did operational friction. Teams struggled to keep up their analysis with the real-time market. Key challenges included:
Manual data export from dashboards into Excel increased errors and efforts.
Outdated insights quickly became stale, weakening decision-making.
CRM, dashboards, and spreadsheets operated in silos, making analysis harder.
Smart features existed in the platform, but users couldn’t leverage them easily.
They needed a way to unify these workflows - without changing the tools.
iFour built a custom, AI-based Microsoft 365 Excel Add-in that delivers real-time, authenticated market intelligence
- right inside Excel. Analysts stay in their natural workflow while eliminating manual processes.
(Technology Stack & Architecture)
The AI-based Add-in revolutionized how professionals build presentations:
iFour built an AI-powered Excel Add-in that delivers live market intelligence inside MS Excel. It eliminates the manual headache of copy-paste insights, making analysts stick to their familiar workflow forever.
Here's a glimpse of what it turned into.
So, that's how a Commodity Intelligence leader achieved full Excel Automation. To see how we modernize Office 365 Add-ins using Copilot AI, check this out.
iFour provided smooth rollout support, including installation guidance, user onboarding, and continuous assistance. The modular design ensures the Add-in can scale to new commodities, integrate additional APIs, and evolve with the client’s product roadmap.
Want to modernize your data integration: market data, CRM insights, or internal systems to Excel? Let’s connect and make it work smarter.
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