Unfortunately not everyone is living the data dream of using connected toaster to send webhooks to Splunk in nicely formatted JSON. Believe it or not, there are still organizations, especially nonprofits, using spreadsheets to manually record their important data. Spreadsheets aren't going to disappear overnight, so Splunk shouldn't ignore the value of spreadsheet data. Learn good practices on how to store and index spreadsheets to Splunk using the Google Drive app.
Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN2192.pdf?podcast=1577146224