EDTers, I have to create a demonstration about EDT.
Can you please help me, by listing your top 5 reasons you use EDT? What problem does it solve for you?
Please consider helping me out.
@mklopfer - What about you?
EDTers, I have to create a demonstration about EDT.
Can you please help me, by listing your top 5 reasons you use EDT? What problem does it solve for you?
Please consider helping me out.
@mklopfer - What about you?
EDT is almost a secret weapon. I can consolidate multiple spreadsheets faster than any of my coworkers.
Top five reasons I like EDT?
My first use of EDT more than justified its cost.
EDT is a gem of a tool. In no order
1It has wider applications than one might first think. as an example, I have taken to reading XML files as plain text, and then using the transforms to manipulate data. in this way you can deal with complex structures more easily, IMHO. You will continue to discover applications for it all the time.
2 Javascript inclusion - really simple to use implementation but it expands the capabilities enormously.
3 Very efficient
matching 4.4m stock exchange prices to codes - 2 seconds
or
Writing out 8.6m accounting records with 95m dataset values, 1.2Gb in less than 17 seconds.
4 It’s crazy cheap. My lawyer charges me the licence fee every 15 minutes she works.
5 Incredibly user friendly. Minimal manual reading time. You should know what to do just by looking at - the mark of well designed software.
6 Support, and Andy B. Amazingly responsive.
@DanFeliciano , I’ve got some slides which may be of some use. Message me if you are interested.
@DanFeliciano
Who are you presenting this to?
Absolutely confirming and subscribing on all this 5 points. Same here. And I actually have a license for SPSS Modeler and find myself many times using EDT instead because of being so easy and intuitive. The only thing I am missing to put SPSS aside for most things related to data cleaning and wrangling tasks I have to do is for EDT to not forget the column positions every time I have to put a new transformation in the middle or I change slightly the source file column structure. I know @Admin promised he was going to look into this… that would be the key: sometimes is very very annoying to have to fix the entire stream transformations because of little adjustments.
Hi @mk2109, I have a large international consulting firm as a client and they need a tool their consultants can use to aggregate and prepare data in multiple formats for analysis.
I also am a huge fan and promoter of EDT.
I primarily have used it so for for new software implementations
My wife is a fractional CFO and does bookkeeping (QuickBooks) and accounting. I use EDT to create an uploadable file to QuickBooks from very crappy downloaded Point of Systems reports.
I understand what you’re saying. I started using EDT I think about a year ago maybe longer and the support team has been very responsive. For example, there are several transforms that I think were based on my suggestions. Or at least I like to think that. ; j
I use EDT because I process the same reports daily with only a few changes in the numbers of these reports. Once I have the processes saved in EDT, I can use it over and over again without worry of a Excel marco messing up.