EASA

Pros: Easy development, no coding needed, one of the best support experiences we have had with any product/platform

Cons: For what we needed EASA was great and had all the features we needed.

Pros: EASA allows non-expert I.T. to leverage existing complex excel worksheets and models that contain Macros and create a web application that works the same as it did on a desktop for minimal cost and time. Also they Host your platform which frees up my time.

Cons: Being able to handle dynamic content is a little lacking

Pros: What I like most about the software is that it can be learned relatively easily, is highly customizable and customer support is always available to assist when questions arise.

Cons: There are certain improvements that can be made with respect to user set up but my understanding is that these improvements are under way.

Pros: It is very straightforward to create EASA apps when starting with a well-formatted Excel calculator. These sorts of Excel calculators are heavily used in our enterprise, but they are not very well curated. This is EASA's sweet spot and it has served us well. Additionally, we receive very good support from EASA when it is needed. In the course of about 4-5 years we have been able to effectively deploy 30+ EASA apps across our enterprise.

Cons: Some Excel formatting does not port well to EASA apps. This can be considered a nuisance-type issue, not a major roadblock. The EASA team is working to resolve some of these issues in future releases. EASA license costs are a deterrent to adoption. Users often use Excel license cost (which appears to the user to be essentially free within our enterprise) as the baseline when comparing to EASA. A fair amount of "value selling" of EASA benefits is required to overcome this hurdle.

Pros: - The product is highly configurable over the top of a spreadsheet. The configurable ability enables the creation of a user friendly and intuitive web interface - It enables us to protect our developed IP securely while sharing capability to our stakeholders. In this sense it has enabled us to expedite and innovate.

Cons: The latency between entering a value in the webform cell and it being in the spreadsheet. It has been reported as tricky/irritating. I would like to get some reports from the system on usage.

Pros: We are on our 3rd generation web tools and the cost savings alone by not having to code software using software coders is significant. Mechanical engineers are not software coders and using EASA is the best way to develop sophisticated web tools without being a software engineer. Capture SME knowledge and democratize your corporate knowledge to non-specialists at the lowest cost possible. Bypass your IT organization and take direct control of knowledge capture and data reuse.

Cons: There is a learning curve to author complex EASA Apps, but it's manageable and still is more cost effective compared to writing and maintaining custom software codes.

Pros: The feature within EASA that was most beneficial to my use case was the ability to create web applications from macro-enabled Excel documents. This made transitioning from internal use to external commercial use a breeze and drastically shortened the road to success.

Cons: Feature wise, nothing stands out as weak. However, from a licensing standpoint, EASA demands a premium. A significant majority of my build's operational expense is directly associated with EASA's licensing fees.

Pros: It seems that the software is a pleasure for management, because it makes them think they have solved the Excel "application" shadow IT problem

Cons: Hiding Excel behind a front end to make it look like a web app is a TERRIBLE idea. It comes with all the problems of maintaining business logic within Excel and is also painfully slow, what could take seconds to do in Excel takes more than 10 minutes to execute behind EASA, while also removing any portability. So unless you only have only very basic business logic in your Excel (in which case I guess you'd be better off transferring it to Sharepoint), you're up for huge performance problems. And you also do nothing to make your application more maintainable, because you're still stuck with all the drawbacks of developing within Excel.

Pros: I like as a "citizen developer" I am able to develop and publish my own applications without having to rely on IT and having the budget for IT development beyond the ongoing licence costs. For somebody of the right mindset (the sort of person who develops spreadsheets/macros) it is easy to pick up and create/deploy apps quickly. The ability to put a wrapper around a pre-existing excel is also attractive so you don't have to code logic but you are also able to build out an application without this. The tool itself is also pretty quick.

Cons: It can be tricky to debug an application and this can cause frustration because you can add the basics of a feature in 30 minutes (great!) then spend 30 minutes figuring out the one thing you've not got quite right (frustrating) - compare this to being able to easily step through code in other applications. There are some basic debugging tools, and you can build your own in but this can be timeconsuming and it would be nice if this was standard. On occasion this debugging has uncovered bugs in the underlying software, but these can normally be worked around and EASA are supportive in finding work arounds quickly.

Pros: It offers a secure environment for users to use, store and retrieve key information that could help decision making in the organization. Being able to host the tool via EASA in the intranet is a key for us.

Cons: I hope the user interface could be improved further and the setup process could be easier.

Pros: We needed a flexible software for the functionality we use EASA for. We got much more than what we wanted, where the business has flexibility in their functionality and IT has the required security controls and release management, easily drawn on it.

Cons: Dependency on multiple servers and infrastructure needs. We do see a large amount of infrastructure needed for the software, but, that is manageable in the current era of Virtualization.

Pros: - It is relatively easy to get an EASA app set up and running. - Our analysis spreadsheets are secure, more widely available to users, more error-proof (users can't accidentally change equations)

Cons: - Once the app is built, it can be challenging to get the formatting exactly as desired. - We occasionally find bugs that sometimes take a while for EASA to address. - Getting results (or partial results) out of EASA can be more difficult than it needs to be. For example, copying and pasting data from a table in EASA doesn't work well.