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Microsoft officially retired the built-in Salesforce ODBC connector in Access on October 28, 2025 for Microsoft 365 monthly versions and November 11 for semi-annual and perpetual licenses. Teams that relied on Access for quick Salesforce data pulls, lightweight reports, and dashboard connections suddenly found their Microsoft Access Salesforce connection not working. Here, we discuss what happened, who’s affected, and how to get your data flowing again with minimal disruption.

Businesses of all sizes rely on detailed budgets to stay aligned on internal goals, monitor their spending, and make decisions that advance their company. Without an effective budget process, businesses increase their risk for costly errors, react more slowly to market shifts, and spend more time on managing numbers than on advancing strategy.

The gap between having data and getting actionable insights has always been a challenge in business intelligence. Users face dashboards filled with information but struggle to answer critical questions without exporting to Excel, waiting on developers, or missing key trends hidden in their filtered data. But with technological advancements like natural language AI agents, users can access insights and patterns they might otherwise miss.

Your first data integration took two weeks. The second took three weeks, because you had to refactor some code. Your third one is now in week five, and you’re realizing the architecture you built for two sources doesn’t scale to three. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. This isn’t because your team isn’t capable. It’s because data integration complexity doesn’t scale linearly. It compounds. It doesn’t have to be this way.

For many finance leaders, 2025 was a year of upheaval, chaos, and uncertainty. Between supply chain disruptions, tariffs, interest rates, and other challenges, plenty of leaders spent their time just keeping the team afloat. As 2026 begins, it’s time to shift to a better perspective. With the right tools and attitude, finance professionals can set and meet goals that are more than just keeping your head above water.

A real estate Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is a quantifiable measure used to assess the performance of a business in the real estate industry. These performance metrics can be used to analyze several different business segments from individual realtor performance to investment property potential. In turn, this information can be used to identify weaknesses in your business or help make better business decisions.

Many AI analytics platforms force enterprises into an impossible choice: adopt cloud-only solutions that compromise data governance and security policies or forgo AI capabilities entirely. But there’s a significant problem with that: most companies aren’t 100% cloud-based, and those that are vary between whether they operate in the public cloud, private cloud, or a hybrid environment.