Marco ran a mid-sized distribution company. For 15 years, his business ran on a custom ERP built with (Clarion). It was rock-solid: lightning-fast inventory lookups, flawless invoicing, and a reporting module that his older staff loved. The data lived in native TopSpeed files ( .TPS ).
Lena nodded. “ODBC is a universal translator. It makes your TopSpeed database look like any other SQL database to applications like Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or even Python.” odbc driver for topspeed
The problem? The world had moved on. The new sales team wanted to use for dashboards. The finance department needed to pull real-time order data into Excel for ad-hoc analysis. The marketing team wanted to sync customer segments to their Salesforce CRM. Marco ran a mid-sized distribution company
Marco was skeptical. “You mean my ancient .TPS files can talk to modern tools?” The data lived in native TopSpeed files (
Every request ended the same way: “Sorry, that data is locked in our old system. I can export a CSV for you… tomorrow morning.”