Business applications, containing your business information, are designed to meet a business function; they don’t provide generalized calculation and formatting tools.  Desktop applications, like Excel, provide powerful capabilities for ad-hoc calculation, specialized analysis and formatting; they don’t have direct access to the business information. Desktop Data Access (DDA+) from Data Design Associates  provides financial analysts and operational managers with direct access to the information they need to make informed business decisions – without programming intervention, complicated toolkits or unlimited information access.  DDA+ can be rolled out as full-featured inquiry toolkit with virtually unlimited access to multiple information sources on multiple mainframes or it can be implemented as a simple “fill-in-the-blank” inquiry add-in.  Either way, you have full, immediate, secure access to the data you need to make informed decisions.