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Top 7 Signs Your Business Is Trapped in Excel Hell … and How to Escape It

By Richard Asquith / November 27, 2025

Excel has earned its place as one of the most versatile tools in business history. Yet for all its power, many organisations are quietly drowning in it. When critical reporting, forecasting, and decision-making depend on endless manual spreadsheets, you are not managing data – you are managing chaos. Escaping Excel Hell with automated business reporting…

Escape Excel Hell: Move Beyond Spreadsheets to Smarter, Trusted Decisions

By Andy McLean / November 11, 2025

Where We Went Wrong with Excel For decades, Excel has been the quiet workhorse of business life. It has modelled finances, tracked sales, forecast demand and helped managers make sense of the numbers. But somewhere along the way, that helpful spreadsheet evolved into something far more dangerous – a sprawling maze of formulas, links and…

The Revolution Taking Place at the Heart of Client Engagement

By Rubina Kumari / August 29, 2025

How Custom Applications Can Revolutionise Client Engagement Client engagement is no longer something that happens by chance. In almost every sector, supplier choice is broad, procurement cycles are rigorous and attention is split across competing priorities. The organisations that thrive are those that create meaningful, sustained connections with their clients and stakeholders. An increasingly powerful…

Leveraging Image Analysis with Azure AI

By Dom Tuck / July 31, 2025

Exploring a practical application for Computer Vision in process automation Image validation and manual review are often overlooked sources of inefficiency. When teams are forced to sift through thousands of photos – whether from delivery drivers, field engineers or customers – it eats into valuable time, slows decisions and makes it harder to enforce consistent…

Harnessing DevOps for Business Intelligence and Power BI

By Andy McLean / June 17, 2025

Many organisations rely on data to steer critical decisions – but delivering trustworthy, up-to-date insight is rarely simple. Reports built in silos, manual deployment steps and inconsistent testing can slow down delivery and undermine trust. This is where applying DevOps principles to Business Intelligence (BI) makes a real difference. Already well known in software development…

Shadow AI – Navigating Hidden Risks and Unlocking Opportunities

By James Orton / April 7, 2025

A recent BBC article highlighted a rising trend in workplaces: employees independently adopting AI tools without formal oversight, a phenomenon now known as “Shadow AI.” At Circyl, we have noticed that this unofficial adoption typically isn’t driven by employees looking to sidestep policies. Instead, it reflects a genuine desire to boost efficiency, speed, and creative output. While…

Understand Your Digital DNA

By Circyl / August 19, 2024

Unlock Your Digital Potential A clear view of how your business really works – and what is holding it back. Digital transformation is not about adding new technology. It is about understanding the strands that define how your organisation operates: your data, your systems, your processes and the experience of your people. At Circyl, we…

Health Innovation Oxford & Thames Valley streamline identity transition through the delivery of a Microsoft 365 migration

By Ben / March 22, 2024

Law South finds a trustworthy solution to help them harness their insurance and risk management data

By Ben / September 12, 2023

Circyl partner with sister company Quiss to deliver SharePoint Online migration for a leading law firm

By Ben / September 12, 2023