# Welcome

[Coherent Spark](https://www.coherent.global/platform/coherent-spark) is the end-to-end solution to elevate and transform your Excel estate. Spark not only gives you unmatched intelligence with actionable insights, it converts your spreadsheet logic into production-ready APIs, significantly improving speed to market, auditability, control and governance, testing accuracy and more, all using your most familiar tool - Excel.

## Start here!

<table data-view="cards" data-full-width="false"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Get started with Spark</strong></td><td>Go from Excel to API in just 5 minutes!</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/-MbjeVIhDMgL5AWwQZcF">/pages/-MbjeVIhDMgL5AWwQZcF</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Navigation</strong></td><td>Take a tour of the Spark user interface.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/hHOxuy8sDPBT98iSvpYO">/pages/hHOxuy8sDPBT98iSvpYO</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tenant administration</strong></td><td>Help tenant administrators nhow to setup Spark for their users.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/33gpuyYo8nxsTAs4aCgc">/pages/33gpuyYo8nxsTAs4aCgc</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Popular pages

<table data-view="cards" data-full-width="false"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-type="content-ref"></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>How to: Map inputs and outputs</strong></td><td>A more detailed guide about the <code>Xinput</code>and <code>Xoutput</code> functionalities of Spark.</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/-MbpA0-hb5bjp7I5Avsa">/pages/-MbpA0-hb5bjp7I5Avsa</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>How to: Prepare an Excel file for Spark</strong></td><td>A walkthrough with suggestions on best practices when setting up an Excel file for Spark.</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/vb2BW8nVwZKhEZPucYgb">/pages/vb2BW8nVwZKhEZPucYgb</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Call Spark service APIs (<code>Xcall</code>)</strong></td><td>Xcall allows Spark services to reference data and logic from other Spark services.</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/7SrkjU0Gy85eBQjw6qoP">/pages/7SrkjU0Gy85eBQjw6qoP</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Hybrid Runner</strong></td><td>Deploy your logic on-premises, private clouds, or personal devices.</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/c1K85gVQxaAyBlgrHsDD">/pages/c1K85gVQxaAyBlgrHsDD</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Execute API</strong></td><td>Documentation for our main calculation API.</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/i1Gw4hnm5WLCg1qp8zNM">/pages/i1Gw4hnm5WLCg1qp8zNM</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Explore further

<table data-view="cards" data-full-width="false"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>What's new?</strong></td><td>An overview of recently released features and a full archive of historical release communications.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/a4LuU4BUepL7MxTVeptJ">/pages/a4LuU4BUepL7MxTVeptJ</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Coherent Assistant</strong></td><td>A Microsoft Excel add-in that enables access to Spark functionalities.</td><td></td><td><a href="/spaces/QQAtOKkd2V4rbmsT77rn">/spaces/QQAtOKkd2V4rbmsT77rn</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Build Spark services</strong></td><td>Detailed explanations about the many options for building and managing services in Spark.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/2mduKa5kkdyUoNDlldTD">/pages/2mduKa5kkdyUoNDlldTD</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Integrations</strong></td><td>Technical information on how Spark can be deployed and used with other applications.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/fkG1Pj66SalbN8YPgmIa">/pages/fkG1Pj66SalbN8YPgmIa</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Spark APIs</strong></td><td>Technical information about how to use Spark-generated APIs.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/InncElujPaVzFMAT5QOa">/pages/InncElujPaVzFMAT5QOa</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Support</strong></td><td>Answers to frequently asked questions and directions for contacting support.</td><td></td><td><a href="/pages/09cCg2ownOzBA4wq7r40">/pages/09cCg2ownOzBA4wq7r40</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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