So this is really fantastic now.

http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/Database-Tools/Palo-Server-34916.html

Palo Excel is this thing Made for Microsoft Excel, Is a Multi-Dimensional, cell oriented spreadsheet, And can act as a Data Server as well. Extracting Data out of it is simple, You splice and slice the multi dimensional thingy unto 2-D chunks whatever way, however you want. Extreme lot of flexibility for a spreadsheet. And Palo is as plain a spreadsheet as anything else, No SQL, No queries.

Palo Server can also has connectivity, compatibility with various web-scripting langs of the like of PHP, C, .NET, JAVA.. So thats about all that you'd want. Ideal for report generations, statistics logging as a standalone application. A must try.