How much does GDS cost?
Many of the client tools, such as the Excel Addin are free and can be used without charge or connecting to a private GDS server. If you are wanting to connect your own OLTP and DW databases to GDS, then you require a private GDS server. There is no purchase price or capex expenditure, only annual maintainence fees. The fees are set around the size of input data and approximate number of users. Specifically, we do not charge you more for using a larger or faster computers to run GDS. The annual maintainence fees start at $500/pa and climb to around $8000/pa for larger sites. Additional options such as onsite consulting are extra. While there are no direct “purchase” costs, we highly recommend purchasing several days consulting when first implementing GDS on a private database to ensure the smoothest installation. How to Plot a map and Values • Open Microsoft Excel with Fieldpine the Global Data addin installed • Enter a list of City Names in Column A and values beside each city in Colum
