Eikon links to Excel with one click and will soon be fully integrated with the Microsoft Office suite so users can pull data and charts from the system into Word or PowerPoint.
The moral of this story is that information hoarding in order to leverage Big Data tools may work in the structured data world, but will not work in the broader information world that includes unstructured content (the Word file, PowerPoint presentations, CAD files, audio files, and other large data types that dominate corporate information stores).
Once the lights go off and the PowerPoint goes on, engaging conversationalists turn into automatons, reciting slide after slide of data while the audience snoozes or drinks Starbucks to stay awake.