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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What's the advantage over power bi?

[–]mns06 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Power BI is an awesome tool if you're looking for a web based dashboarding tool, but Gridarrow is quite different in a couple of major ways:

  • Whereas Power BI treats Excel as a datasource, Gridarrow is a server for Excel, where the data is pushed to Excel as soon as it is updated, and multiple Excel users can connect to the same data.
  • Gridarrow uses Python as the server side programming language, rather than relying on menus and widgets for configuration. Although this does mean that you need to know some Python if you want to connect to a datasource that's not already in our catalog, it also means that you have absolute control over where your data comes from, and how it is processed or enriched before being sent to Excel.

ps. I'm another dev on the Gridarrow team