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BR Systems builds XLTable from Astana, Kazakhstan, citing Astana Hub benefits

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BR Systems, a small team behind XLTable, an OLAP server linking Excel PivotTables live to cloud data warehouses, is registered in Astana, Kazakhstan. The company is a resident of Astana Hub, an international technology park launched by the Kazakh government in 2018. Participants can receive tax incentives on qualifying IT income and payroll, though since January 2026 the rules are stricter and tied to the share of approved IT activity. The park also simplifies hiring foreign specialists and offers an ecosystem of events, acceleration programs, and introductions to large local companies and government bodies. The company says these benefits let more of its budget go into engineering, while also giving its intellectual property a clear owner and visibility among Kazakh institutions modernizing their data platforms.

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