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This is an awesome product, but: the name and price-point will not encourage customers to take the product seriously. For a while I've been thinking about how
by rukuu001 11y ago
This is an awesome product, but: the name and price-point will not encourage customers to take the product seriously.
For a while I've been thinking about how hard it is to wean corporate analysts off Excel (it's their frame of reference) and on to something more 'Enterprise-y', and the solution is to go the other way and scale Excel instead.
This product is an excellent start at that.
- osullivj 11y agoStrongly agree on scaling Excel. Excel is deeply entrenched in corporate environments because it's the go to tool for users when IT depts can't or won't deliver what they need. Consequently there's a huge amount of Excel based end user generated solutions out there that are business critical. Looks like ThingieQuery has hit a sweet spot for power users working on Excel-as-a-DB type problems. Another outfit taking the scale up Excel approach is BlockSpring. Thingie could add a lot of value manipulating BlockSpring imported data. My own interests lie in Excel-as-calc-engine rather than DB, and I think there's a lot of value to be had in scaling up calcs by serverizing.