Emerging AI-enabled, automated data management tools such as Paradigm have the potential to challenge Excel’s current market dominance.
It’s not a bubble; it’s a disrupter. Like it or not, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the finance sector at a pace that is difficult to either keep up with or maintain. Meanwhile, on Sept. 30, 2025, Microsoft Excel officially hit middle age, celebrating 40 years of being the cornerstone business tool for accountants and other finance professionals in quantitative and qualitative tasks alike.