We connected a legacy VB6 inventory system to Power BI dashboards in under an hour. No rewrite. No ongoing subscription. Just Alice.

When your leadership wants dashboards yesterday but your core systems are running on Microsoft Access, FoxPro, or other legacy databases, the challenge is clear: how do you make these worlds talk without spending months rewriting?

That’s exactly what Alice is designed to solve — and in many cases, we can have a working integration to Power BI in less than an hour.

The magic starts with Alice’s ability to understand two very different structures:

• Inconsistent naming conventions
• Mixed or ambiguous data types
• Complex joins hidden in Access queries or macros
• Whatever weird stuff Bob who hasn’t been with the firm in years did 10 years ago
• Data often buried in multiple linked tables or flat files

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