Replacing Excel processes means swapping shared files for small apps, SharePoint lists and workflows, and leaving Excel where it is strong: calculating and analysing. NordFlux moves the holiday list, the price calculation and the shift plan into one clean data source instead of automating Excel against its limits. That way every process has a current status for the whole team.
Excel is not the enemy. Uncontrolled copies are: as soon as a file goes around the company by email, there is no current status any more, only versions.
We do not replace Excel, but the processes that only cause pain in Excel. Five cases we run into constantly in mid-sized companies.
The shared file becomes a SharePoint list with an approval workflow: employees enter their requests, managers approve with a click, the team calendar updates itself. Double bookings are technically ruled out.
Impact No double bookings, no manual updatesThe grown calculation file becomes a Power App with documented, verified calculation logic. Prices and mark-ups are maintained centrally by one person, everyone calculates with the same rules. We take care of the formula archaeology beforehand.
Impact Every quote with the same rulesInstead of an Excel printout on the notice board: a small app in which the plan is maintained centrally and everyone sees the current status on their phone. Changes reach the team instantly, not just on Monday.
Saving 2–4 h of plan maintenance per weekThe status list circulating by email becomes a central list with owners, deadlines and status. Power Automate automatically reminds people of overdue items, instead of someone chasing them by phone on Friday.
Saving Status meetings without scraps of paperThe file with 40,000 rows of customer or article data is not a database, it only pretends to be. We move the data into a clean source such as SharePoint, Dataverse or SQL and connect it to your existing systems via workflow.
Impact One source, all systems up to dateThree tools that replace shared files. Which one fits is decided by your process, not by our taste.
Apps instead of filesSmall, tailored apps for entry and maintenance: everyone sees only what they need, nobody accidentally breaks a formula. Runs on the PC and on the phone, right inside your Microsoft 365 environment.
Workflows instead of cell magicApprovals, reminders, handovers between systems: what someone used to read off the spreadsheet by hand now runs as a workflow. Also for automating Excel where the file stays for now.
Connect instead of copyWhen data is copied back and forth between Excel, ERP, web shop or industry software, n8n connects the systems directly. Run on German servers on request, with full data sovereignty.
From the critical file to a running solution in 30 days, at a fixed price instead of an open timesheet.
60 minutes, no obligation: together we look at which Excel files are really critical and which can simply stay. Afterwards you know what the replacement will cost.
We document the logic behind the formulas, clean up the data and design the new data model. Even if the person who built the file left long ago.
App, list and workflows take shape while the old file keeps running. Your team tests with real data and gives feedback before anything is switched over.
Training for the team, documentation for you, the old file is archived read-only. You can then maintain and adjust the solution yourself.
If it is not just one file but half the administration that lives in spreadsheets, it is worth looking at the Power Platform as a whole: apps, workflows and analytics from a single mould. There we show how the building blocks work together.
In the free initial analysis (60 minutes, no obligation) we find out which Excel process costs you the most time and what the fixed-price replacement will cost. You then decide at your leisure.
No, Excel remains the right tool for analyses, ad-hoc calculations and a quick overview. Only what is misused as the backbone of a process in shared files is replaced: lists that several people maintain, and calculations that decisions depend on. Ending Excel chaos means ending copies, not Excel.
You get a fixed price after the free initial analysis, not an open timesheet. The price depends on how much logic is embedded in the file and how many systems are connected. Most replacements run as a 30-day project, and we also check possible funding such as the BAFA consulting grant together with you.
For most SMEs, SharePoint lists or Dataverse are enough: both are included in many Microsoft 365 licenses and need no server of their own. With large data volumes or many relationships, it becomes a SQL database. We choose the smallest solution that carries the load cleanly, not the most expensive one.
That is exactly what week 1 of the project is for: we take the file apart, document every formula and every hidden reference, and reconcile the logic with the people who work with it daily. Only once the rules are documented in black and white do we build the new solution. This also works if the person who built the file has long since left the company.
Yes, that is explicitly the goal. You maintain SharePoint lists and Power Apps yourself after the handover: new columns, new employees, changed prices, all without a service provider. You get documentation and training for it, because you are meant to keep control, not us.
