Acceλerate™ for Microsoft 365

Increase your productivity and multiply your return on your investment in Microsoft 365 and legacy Microsoft Office applications with the ultimate add-in by using Acceλerate for Microsoft 365 to create reusable, readable, and recurring functions to transform your hard-drive bound document artifacts into “live” digital enterprise assets!

What is Acceλerate for Microsoft 365?

Acceλerate™ for Microsoft 365 is an add-in to Microsoft Office that

  • Is compatible with Office 2016 through Microsoft 365
  • Introduces a powerful new paradigm for writing user defined functions in a proven functional programming environment 
  • Supports rapid, iterative development of math and data intensive models that far exceed what can ordinarily be done in the confines of the spreadsheet’s computation engine
  • Includes four new built-in functions to interface Visual Scheme for ApplicationsTM with the Excel* platform 
  • Facilitates test-driven development of Scheme libraries
  • Simplifies reading data from large, complex CSV files

Acceλerate™ for Microsoft 365 includes these Power-packed Productivity Features:

  • Visual Scheme for ApplicationsTM (VSA®): Implement reusable business logic flexibly, and in the widest possible variety of scenarios, using one of the simplest yet most moldable standardized scripting languages ever invented.
  • A fully integrated Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) for rapid feedback and simple testing of new functions as you work on them.
  • A powerful, easy to use Lambda Editor for crafting short scripts that can tap into vast libraries in Scheme with direct access to any .NET library you might want to use.
  • Console debugging log to see output during calculations.
  • External REPL for long-running or batch scripting at the command line.
  • Enhanced Spreadsheet Functionality with “true” Lambda functions:  Break outside the constraints of the traditional spreadsheet paradigm while empowering users to create reusable, user-defined functions in a human-readable, human-extensible syntax based on a recursion-friendly, Turing-complete language, right into your Excel workbook!

* Note that support for Access, Word and other Office applications is on the near-term roadmap! 

Coming Soon!

New Features to be included in the future update to Acceλerate for Microsoft 365:

  • Connects to ADO.NET drivers
  • Allows for re-use of existing or creating new lambdas as custom functions in SQLite’s flavor of SQL 
  • Creates local SQLite databases you can access natively right from within Excel
  • Allows for creating specific wrappers to your favorite ADO.NET drivers
  • Provides a basic RDF data querying capability
  • Simplifies interaction with COM APIs
  • Improves interaction with important Excel API objects – especially worksheets, cells and ranges, and related events.
  • Our patented1 novel implementation of a generalized, microservices-inspired adapter framework for aligning downstream systems of record and legacy systems unobtrusively via architecture instead of point-to-point API calls.
  • Our patented1 distributed database implementation uses blockchain without any of the complexity of contemporary ledger-based solutions.

Download our informational brochure for more information.

Why do I need it?

Acceλerate for Microsoft 365 extends Excel’s power and reach by integrating the two diverse worlds of the .NET runtime and the Scheme programming language right into Excel, enhancing Microsoft’s current LAMBDA efforts by providing a powerful Turing-complete solution. It aligns with Microsoft’s stated objective to evolve the Excel formula-based environment into a more conventional and mainstream coding language while also offering new opportunities for VBA solution developers to expand their enterprise value through Acceλerate for Microsoft 365’s Visual Scheme for Applications. Acceλerate for Microsoft 365 adds real extrinsic value through its parallel capability focused on making technologies outside of Excel accessible within it.

No longer be limited to :
  • The functions that come with Excel. Using the depth of already existing solutions in Scheme (the language) or the vast ecosystem of libraries written in many languages for the CLR (.NET), you can create your own functions and formulas to achieve the goals and meet your specific requirements.
  • The confines of one spreadsheet. With these two worlds of proven solutions at your fingertips, you can create models and data that interoperate across your enterprise with unprecedented ease.
  • The tools within VBA. Visual Scheme for Applications has a simplicity and ease of use with power and extensibility. 
  • Limited, period.
Acceλerate for Microsoft 365, powered by Visual Scheme for Applications, expands VBA Solutions Developers’ Roles

With the most recent update to Acceλerate for Microsoft 365, we have enhanced the initial release – which is aimed primarily at Excel users who are currently also exploring Microsoft’s LAMBDA functions – to include features that will assist VBA Solutions Developers in expanding their solutions and services. Future releases of Acceλerate for Microsoft 365 and Acceλerate™ Pro (collectively, “Acceλerate™“) will integrate VSA and VBA with the entire Office suite, expanding the role of VBA Solutions Developers.

Acceλerate™ will allow VBA Solutions Developers to:

  • Harness the full power of the .NET Framework, currently only accessible via intentionally created COM wrappers, by using Visual Scheme for Applications to script .NET in a clean, functional way without the need to create COM objects. 
  • Use Visual Scheme®’s macro (or “syntax extension”) system to achieve flexibility not available to VBA or .NET developers. Following Visual Scheme’s  naturally functional paradigm and programming style removes the need to think about objects. It’s all about the data, even when the code is data.
  • Any event handler you implement in VBA against forms, reports, or Excel itself can call into Visual Scheme® and perform almost any computation you can imagine—not just in the spreadsheet, but in your code! You can also write Lambda expressions that interact with your VBA code in ways you couldn’t even contemplate doing in the past.

With the integration of Visual Scheme for Applications and Visual Basic for Applications, the door is opened for VBA Solutions Developers to assist their clients with their move forward to the Cloud.

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1US Patent No. 11,531,686

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