Looks like this is aimed at development teams that have traders/Gov't Excel monkeys as their customer. This is really the less evil of the two options (other be

Looks like this is aimed at development teams that have traders/Gov't Excel monkeys as their customer. This is really the less evil of the two options (other being VBA), and when dealing with those types of customers in organizations where developers typically are the least valued cost center... well, it's not a bad compromise. If you have had traders ask you for 'some Excel program that has live streaming price updates along with live pricing model params from our internal database' or some crap like that, believe me, this would definitely be worth the cost over using/maintaining spaghetti code VBA.