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As a result, a lot of data ends up being managed in a spreadsheet or a Microsoft Access database. These tools are flexible and easy for non-IT staff to build, but IT departments often see them as sources of technical debt: they only support one user at a time, they’re single points of failure since they’re usually not backed up, and they’re difficult to integrate into other systems.\n\nDataface aims to be an alternative tool that IT departments can offer non-IT staff to empower them to easily manage their data in a system the IT department would support. For the non-IT staff, dataface is a spreadsheet-like interface for data that lets you create columns and rows, even linking columns between sheets. For the IT department, dataface is a vanilla PostgreSQL database with a REST API and web app on top. 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