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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Excel

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Excel is a spreadsheet application available as part of Microsoft 365 (Office 365), or standalone, in cloud-based and on-premise editions.

    $6.99

    per month

    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/ATalend Open Studio was an open source integration software, used to build basic data pipelines or execute simple ETL and data integration tasks. Qlik and Talend discontinued the service in early 2024, and it is no longer available.

    $0

    per month

    Pricing
    Microsoft ExcelTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Excel with Microsoft 365
    $6.99
    per month
    Excel for 1 PC or Mac
    $139.99
    perpetual license
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft ExcelTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft ExcelTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    78 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    70 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    76 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    46 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    54 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Microsoft ExcelTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Microsoft Excel and Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Microsoft Excel
    -
    Ratings
    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Microsoft Excel and Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Microsoft Excel
    -
    Ratings
    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    7.0
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings6.010 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Microsoft Excel and Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Microsoft Excel
    -
    Ratings
    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings6.99 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings6.98 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Microsoft Excel and Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Microsoft Excel
    -
    Ratings
    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    6.5
    7 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings6.06 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Microsoft ExcelTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Sheets
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft ExcelTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (78 ratings)
    7.9
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (23 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    4.9
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft ExcelTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    I don't really know another program as powerful as Excel. I've used Google Doc programs but do not feel they come close. So far, anytime I've needed a table of some sort for data, whether it's budget oriented or information off a survey, the best system has been Excel. We do web audits on occasion and we create an Excel worksheet featuring every URL of the pages we're auditing, notes, data about the content, information about files attached to the page and other information to help us determine what pages need updating, deleting or otherwise. We also use Excel primarily to export our Google Analytics to in order for us to create reports for clients that need to see specific information about their traffic.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    For quick daily integrations Talend is a very good tool and it makes development time so short and easy. Citizen developers who are not great programmers can pick up and start using Talend Open Studio within weeks. It's well suited for all kinds of data migration between various systems. It is less appropriate for smaller synchronous services where you need to trace the complete transaction and how data moved between them. It's also less appropriate for small data movements where other tools can be easier to use and manage.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • It is very good at embedded formulas and tying cells to one another
    • It allows me to compare deals terms on a side-by-side basis and talk my clients through it easily.
    • It is very helpful as well in terms of allowing me to filter/sort results in many different ways depending on what specific information I am most interested in prioritizing.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Your developers will be able to design SOA services graphically, and it is very easy to document and implement the code.
    • Talend Open Studio is based on Eclipse IDE, so your developers will be very comfy using it
    • Open is Key in Talend Open Studio = Open Source
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Excel offers collaboration features that allow multiple users to work on the same spreadsheet, but managing changes made by different users can be challenging. Excel could improve its features by offering more granular control, better tracking of changes, and more robust conflict resolution tools.
    • Itcan be a barrier to productivity when importing and exporting data from other applications or file formats. To improve its features, it should offer better support for standard file formats and more robust error handling and reporting tools.
    • Excel can be challenging for finance students and working professionals, but it can be improved by offering more robust tutorials, better documentation, and more user communities and support forums.
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    • The community is not that up to date and forum is not that great in response. Probably we should make people aware of the tool more on how to use and its implementations.
    • Talend crashes when transforming a lot of data (millions of rows).
    • Proper training documentation is a must for talend which is currently lagging. This will help users to learn more about Talend and use it effectively.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Excel remains the industry standard for spreadsheets and has maintained simple and straight-forward formula writing methods. Although there is a learning curve to do more complex calculations, there are countless help sites and videos on the Internet for almost any need.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    There is no licence requirement for Talend Open Studio. So, this is not relevant question. However, if you are asking whether we will use Talend in future. Yes. We will continue to use it. It's very powerful free tool which caters to all our extra, transform, load capabilities. We just love Talend for it's great functionality and ease of use.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    I'm giving it a 7 because it is my go to. But the fact other prefer Google Sheets when working with a team does get irritating. I've used the online version of Microsoft Excel that other teams can get into and it still seems behind Google Sheets. It's a little clanky and slow? If that's even a term.
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    Talend Open Studio is based on Eclipse and is full of redundant procedures to do one thing, like when installing libraries. Sometimes I cannot manually download the libraries that it can't find.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    I have rarely, if ever, had issues with its availability.
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    Excel load and performs calculations immediately. It integrate well with all Microsoft Office applications and does not slow them down.
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    Discontinued Products
    Many times, Talend freezes. When you give a cancel command, it takes several minutes to stop. It also takes a great toll on our PC with 16 GB of ram and I7 CPU, even in idle status. If you are downloading Maven Jar/Libraries, you cannot do anything and have to wait until the task is finished.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    I have not had to use it often, but it is good.
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    Discontinued Products
    Talend Open Studio is free and we are not using the enterprise version which comes with licence and support. So, mostly depend on the open source community for any issues that we face. The document is good and we didn't have to use any support so far. We did evaluate the enterprise version and so far sticking to the free version.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Out of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, IBM SPSS, and Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel is by far the most common tool used for anything data-related across organizations. Accordingly, our organization has also implemented Microsoft Excel as a first-step tool. We recently adopted Microsoft Power BI (the free version), and use it occasionally (mostly for creating dashboards), but it is less commonly understood by stakeholders across our organization and by our clients. Accordingly, Microsoft Excel is more user-friendly and because of its popularity, we can easily look up how to do things in the program online. Google Sheets is a comparable alternative to Microsoft Excel, but because it's cloud-based and we have sensitive data that needs to be protected, we chose against using this software. Finally, a few users (including myself) have access to and utilize IBM's SPSS. For my role, it's a helpful tool to do more rigorous analyses. However, because of its cost and limited functionality as a simple spreadsheet, we only use it for more complex analyses.
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    Discontinued Products
    Informatica has a limited number of components that you can use. This places a heavy limitation on the capabilities of Informatica. On the other hand, Talend allows you to create your own custom components using Java. For businesses that need to perform a wide variety of data operations, it can be quite useful to have the option of creating your own custom components to satisfy business needs.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    N/A I was not involved in this process.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    Each user can use it to whatever level of expertise they have. It remains the same so users can contribute to another's work regardless of whether they have more or less expertise
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Excel has positively impacted the business as it has increased our efficiency.
    • It also saves us the time that we would have spent on making the calculations that it does for us.
    • Since it works on all devices and is compatible with both Windows and Mac, we do not have to invest in any other alternative.
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    Discontinued Products
    • I delivered projects the client did not believe were possible, and I provided intermediate value by providing visibility to hidden data problems in their systems they could not detect before.
    • I was able to work 3 projects at a time, pausing gracefully in one while switching to the other, with minimal effort.
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