My experience is stuck in the 90s, as are the coworkers that drive that experience. Most of them refer to the Chrome browser as "the Google", I haven't a snowball's chance in teaching them how to connect an Excel document directly to a central data source.

But what I can do is provide them with an easy interface for interacting with that data directly, and give them the option to "save" their results within the context of those interactions so that they can share a simple link instead of a static file.

As for embedding runtimes in HTML, ActiveX is dead and I do not mourn it. Our office has finally decided to standardize on a modern web browser, and I couldn't be happier about that.

Just because your place of work doesn't follow best practice doesn't mean it is not possible.

I didn't say it wasn't possible, but in my environment it is not as feasible as the alternative.

Creating a better solution is a lot easier than teaching everyone what a database is and why it's useful.

It's not your answer, and that's okay.

If you put this product in front of your office colleagues, how much traction would it get ?