This looks fantastic, and sadly completely misses the mark on a huge industry that uses excel every day: investment management, hedge funds, etc. Why? Because this is yet another cloud only solution with no self hosting possibility.
These firms are very-very rich and would pay good money, but a very small %-age will be willing to give you their data. It doesn't matter how many certifications you quote about data treatment, we will simply not trust you with our data, full stop.
You say pyxll is a mediocre tool, but IMO they understand how this industry works.
Really sad, because the tool itself looks fantastic...
If they had built this so they handled the SaaS part, but could persist the data in your organization's own AWS / GCP / Azure blob storage, would that be enough to get the solution past the line for acceptance? I'm in security, but in tech, where SaaS solutions are usually much more accepted.
The challenge with on-prem software of course is just how much support it takes to maintain. At my last gig, we deployed new microservices every 5 minutes; I can't imagine how much it would have sucked to worry about maintaining on-prem installs.
I'm wondering if this kind of shared model could make it workable.
Thanks! We've talked to a lot of people in hedge funds and investments, and you're right that a lot of them care about a self-hosted solution. This is definitely on our radar as a potential future path for the product.
These firms are very-very rich and would pay good money, but a very small %-age will be willing to give you their data. It doesn't matter how many certifications you quote about data treatment, we will simply not trust you with our data, full stop.
You say pyxll is a mediocre tool, but IMO they understand how this industry works.
Really sad, because the tool itself looks fantastic...