Underwriting Question: Importing Argus Enterprise Data Into Excel Model
I work for a capital markets firm and we sell office buildings. We work with institutional clients and Argus is essentially required as institutional buyers typically use Argus to run their valuations.

We have been using a third-party excel modeling service, which takes Argus data and makes it look nice using Macros. They charge by the data dump and it’s becoming inconvenient/expensive for us. 

Does anyone know a vendor that can build something like this?
[{"id": "g8ufwqs", "text": "Why not just export the Argus data into your own excel model?", "replies": [{"id": "g8ugbod", "text": "Second this. Most people have their own models and dump Argus data into it. Just spend some time to figure it out, shouldn\u2019t be too hard", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "g8ug9h3", "text": "I haven't worked with Argus since it was DCF, but the export format was pretty standardized. One of our underwriters built out a template that auto formats and he did it without macros.  Not sure if Enterprise is different in this respect.\n\nSheet 1: PASTE Argus export here\n\nSheet 2: Call cells from Sheet 1 into a pretty format", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "g8uhfbo", "text": "I\u2019m the only analyst and current workflow is prohibitive of me spending time on building something like this out. I was hoping someone would be interested or know someone who is to create this for us.", "replies": [{"id": "g8ulplu", "text": "What exactly do they do with the data? Just present it in a nice way for you to pull into offerings?", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "g8utbsi", "text": "I would be interested for $.  I can build a model that index matches the cash flows.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "g8v1cx9", "text": "wait for him to die lmao", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "g8w4q3v", "text": "u/GoldColor are you performing some calculation in the excel workbook or do you want it formatted for the OM? I'm guessing that the difficulty with the current setup is that every time you make a change to the model you have to send it over so that the run matches what you should in the OM - correct?", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "g8w7ba2", "text": "I was in the same situation as you roughly nine months ago and I found there are two solutions that I know of. Argus has an in-house export tool called ARES that exports your single property/portfolio into a excel workbook that you can build templates on top of. I can\u2019t remember the exact cost but I think it\u2019s a $1,000 per user per year. \n\nThe other option is a export tool from the company Realogic. I think it costs like $30k but it has unlimited users. When I demoed it I really liked how it worked.  We used the realogic export tool for DCF and honestly would have preferred to just stay with it. \n\nIn the end we choose ARES because we were concerned about paying $30k for a package and just have it break the next time Argus does some update.  Not that ARES is a great solution. \n\nOn a side note it is bullshit that Argus doesn\u2019t have an actual export tool that allows you to share a legible model.  Their reports are trash.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]