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As a heavy user of DataNitro in the finance world, I can attest to how much it has improved my life. It allows me to interact with my data providers' excel plu
by digz 13y ago
As a heavy user of DataNitro in the finance world, I can attest to how much it has improved my life. It allows me to interact with my data providers' excel plugins in a much more expedient manner. I could use their direct data feeds, but testing things on those is a PITA.
Largely, though, I agree that DN isn't really necessary/useful but for a small niche... but when you need it, it's EXTREMELY necessary.
- mathattack 13y agoIn a prior life I used a lot of VBA to process some scenario modeling Excel spreadsheets. Python would have been much better. Python is also becoming more and more common in Financial Services. I haven't used DataNitro, but it would have helped me in the past, and it fills a very real need. I think the niche may be bigger than you give it credit for.
- benatkin 13y agoI think it's comparable to XMLSpy, in how powerful it is, how niche it is, how incredibly useful it is to some people, and how expensive it is. https://datanitro.com/pricing.html https://datanitro.com/pricing.html
- mathattack 13y agoThe pricing actually isn't that high if the target is Finance. If anything it may be too low. These are folks who pay ~$20K per user per year for Bloomberg.
- benatkin 13y agoI meant in absolute terms. There are people who are happy to pay for XMLSpy, too. Ditto for AutoCAD.