ALTERNATIVES TO GRIDBUDDY?

Some of you already know that AppBuddy (the makers of GridBuddy) was acquired by Validity over the summer. For background, here's a link to @Michael Kolodner​'s post and discussion when that was announced. 

My org has used GridBuddy for many years. Half of my users have licenses and we have built a number of data updating processes using GridBuddy that are enormous time savers for our staff.

My GridBuddy licenses come up for renewal in February and I just found out that the amount we're going to be charged is almost 250 percent higher than what we had been paying. That's not a typo. We had been paying $120 per license/year and yesterday I was quoted $288 per license/year. For us (16 GridBuddy users) that means going from an annual bill of $1,920 to $4,608.

I'm sure I'll be able to negotiate something lower than that, but I'm also sure it's not going to be a reasonable price increase. I understand raising prices by 10, 20 or even 25 percent after an acquisition, but raising them 250 percent without any significant changes to the product? That's just pure greed.

Between the DemandTools acquisition and now the AppBuddy acquisition, Validity has shown itself to be the greediest company I have ever encountered.

GridBuddy is so built into our organizational processes I'm really not sure what to do.

Is anyone aware of any inline data editing tools that are similar to GridBuddy that are more reasonably priced? Has anyone moved off of GridBuddy to another product?

@Salesforce.org System Administrators​ @Karen Zelevinsky​ @Amy Cobb​ @Jodi Nemser-Abrahams​ @Donna Whitig​ @Anne Young​ 

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