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    In the real life of business people Excel spreadsheets play an important role. They are easy to create, easy to modify, easy to deliver. Copy – Paste – modify is the standard Excel (programming) activity. Cells named by row and column represent the data model (or object model if you prefer). This is easy and absolutely not scalable. In my personal real life as manager of my company I have Excel spreadsheets as everybody else. And I have to consolidate them, sometimes over many years. By whatever reason, in 2002 some data might be in column D which is in 2003 to 2005 in column E and since 2006 in column F. Doing the consolidation in VBA is almost as painful as doing it manually (unifying the original spreadsheets), while the latter has the extra challenge to be error-prone. Our silver bullet is Smalltalk. I create a real object model for the business presented in the spreadsheets, I use COM Connect to populate the object model, I use Smalltalk to transform the objects (consolidate), and use COM Connect to create Excel spreadsheets in the format desired for the consolidated information.

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    In the real life of business people Excel spreadsheets play an important role. They are easy to create, easy to modify, easy to deliver. Copy – Paste – modify is the standard Excel (programming) activity. Cells named by row and column represent the data model (or object model if you prefer). This is easy and absolutely not scalable. In my personal real life as manager of my company I have Excel spreadsheets as everybody else. And I have to consolidate them, sometimes over many years. By whatever reason, in 2002 some data might be in column D which is in 2003 to 2005 in column E and since 2006 in column F. Doing the consolidation in VBA is almost as painful as doing it manually (unifying the original spreadsheets), while the latter has the extra challenge to be error-prone. Our silver bullet is Smalltalk. I create a real object model for the business presented in the spreadsheets, I use COM Connect to populate the object model, I use Smalltalk to transform the objects (consolidate), and use COM Connect to create Excel spreadsheets in the format desired for the consolidated information.

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    Smalltalk As A Convertor of Excel Spreadsheets - Georg Heeg

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    Smalltalk Solutions
    In the real life of business people Excel spreadsheets play an important role. They are easy to create, easy to modify, easy to deliver. Copy – Paste – modify is the standard Excel (programming) activity. Cells named by row and column represent the data model (or object model if you prefer). This is easy and absolutely not scalable. In my personal real life as manager of my company I have Excel spreadsheets as everybody else. And I have to consolidate them, sometimes over many years. By whatever reason, in 2002 some data might be in column D which is in 2003 to 2005 in column E and since 2006 in column F. Doing the consolidation in VBA is almost as painful as doing it manually (unifying the original spreadsheets), while the latter has the extra challenge to be error-prone. Our silver bullet is Smalltalk. I create a real object model for the business presented in the spreadsheets, I use COM Connect to populate the object model, I use Smalltalk to transform the objects (consolidate), and use COM Connect to create Excel spreadsheets in the format desired for the consolidated information.

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    Georg Heeg eK Georg Heeg eK

    Baroper Str. 337 Wallstraße 22


    44227 Dortmund 06366 Köthen
    Germany Germany
    Tel: +49-231-97599-0 Tel: +49-3496-214 328
    Fax: +49-231-97599-20 Fax: +49-3496-214 712

    Georg Heeg AG
    Seestraße 135
    8027 Zürich
    Switzerland
    Email: georg@heeg.de
    Tel: +41(848) 43 34 24
    http://www.heeg.de
    Alexander Augustin
    Georg Heeg
    Georg Heeg eK

    EXCEL Extraction
    -
    Modeling in Smalltalk as
    Converter of Excel
    Spreadsheets 2
    Georg Heeg eK

    • Founded 7/7/1987 in
    Dortmund
    – Original Mission
    • Spread Smalltalk in Central Europe
    • 1996
    – Georg Heeg AG Zurich
    • To serve the Swiss Market
    • 1999
    – Subsidiary in Köthen (Anhalt)
    • To keep Family Heeg together
    Main Activities

    • 100% Smalltalk
    – Training
    – Consulting
    – Product development for customers
    – Own projects
    – Own products
    – Project support
    Our Team

    • 13 Smalltalkers
    – 4 to 25 years of Smalltalk experience
    – 6 certified Scrum Masters
    • 2 Web Designers
    • 4 Craftspeople
    • 1 Business Administration Manager
    Microsoft Excel

    6
    Office Market

    Effective January, 2010 7


    The Situation

    • Business data is collected and stored in


    Excel tables
    – In our organization
    – And others
    • Short term needs allow
    – Easy analysis
    – Easy adaptations of the tables
    • From year to year tables are slightly
    modified
    8
    The Problem

    • Trying to create analysis across years


    – These little changes are extremely annoying
    • Handwork is needed
    – Labor-intense
    – Error prone

    9
    The Problem

    • Flexibility in the small


    • Difficulty in the large
    • Same reason: Excel Data Model
    – Data in cells
    – Addressed by row and column
    • Business models
    – Human only readable in texts
    – Incomprehensible for Excel programming
    10
    Our Concept I

    • Model business models in Smalltalk


    – Object oriented
    • Excel-to-Smalltalk-Interface
    – Based upon COM Connect
    – Fills the business model with data
    – For each variant of Excel tables a variant of
    the import functionality is used

    11
    Our Concept II

    • Analysis is done in the business models


    using business rules
    • Smalltalk-to-Excel-Interface
    – Based upon COM Connect
    – New Excel Spreadsheets are written with an
    overview of the analysis results

    12
    COM Office API I

    • VisualWorks 7.8 COM Connect will


    provide an updated API for easy Office
    communication
    autoformat
    • COMAutomationApplication activeSheetName:
    getAllCells
    • ExcelApplication isVisible:
    • WordApplication selectSheet:
    open:
    saveAs:
    …
    Experiences

    • Timetable management at Anhalt


    University
    • Cost overview real estate renovation for
    SALEG - Sachsen-Anhaltinische
    Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
    • In the domain of automation in the
    industry

    14
    Demo

    • Part 1
    – Black Box Demo
    • Timetable management at Anhalt University
    • Part 2
    – Let’s go into the browsers
    • Part 3
    – Let’s look at Word

    15
    Base

    • Cincom VisualWorks 7.8


    • Com Connect
    – Reflection
    • Without mirror classes
    • Without mirror methods
    • Just objects created from the Type Library
    • Just simple

    16
    Status

    • Service offering as part of Smalltalk


    projects we do
    • Goal
    – Individual service

    17
    Summary

    • Overcome Excel concept limitations


    • Easy to understand analysis
    • No error prone handwork
    • Modeling of the business
    – Thus conceptual correctness
    • Reproducible analysis
    • Adaptability to changing Excel formats
    • Independent of Excel version

    18
    Georg Heeg eK Georg Heeg eK
    Baroper Str. 337 Wallstraße 22
    44227 Dortmund 06366 Köthen
    Germany Germany
    Tel: +49-231-97599-0 Tel: +49-3496-214 328
    Fax: +49-231-97599-20 Fax: +49-3496-214 712

    Georg Heeg AG
    Seestraße 131
    8027 Zürich
    Switzerland
    Email: georg@heeg.de
    Tel: +41(848) 43 34 24
    http://www.heeg.de

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