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A startup tried this with IronPython to draw financial analysts away from excel. Here's the result: https://www.resolversystems.com/ https://www.resolversystems
by cheriot 10y ago
A startup tried this with IronPython to draw financial analysts away from excel. Here's the result: https://www.resolversystems.com/ https://www.resolversystems.com/
The product was pretty slick, too. I hope someone can crack the nut.
- kornish 10y agoThere's also a company developing a web spreadsheet solution that allows for inlining code of different dialects into spreadsheets to reference cells like a SQL table: http://alphasheets.com/ http://alphasheets.com/. They're targeting financial analysts too, iirc.
- cheriot 10y agoLooks like a cool idea. "Contact for a price" to get more than 1,000 rows is ambitious.
- osullivj 10y agoI went to the Resolver One launch in London about 10 years ago. I was excited about it, being something of a Pythonista. I think it suffered from the same problem that afflicts many attempts to create a better Excel; which is being somewhat incompatible with Excel. In enterprise IT one often hears managers talk about the "server estate" or the "application estate". Companies off all sizes have spreadsheet estates too. These are end user generated Excel sheets that have become business critical. To tap into that market you have to deliver something to the users of those existing sheets that "just works". IMHO, natch...