[iagovar]

Knime is way more powerful, but it requires more learning too. It has nodes for programming (R & Python, and I'm pretty sure it has something with JAVA) your own transformation if you want to integrate complex stuff, but it's very capable out of the box.

Excel has PowerQuery too, which is very nice but you hit the ceiling pretty easy. Knime eats a lot of data down the throat with modest PC, Excel really struggles with large datasets, not matter how you use or tune PowerQuery.

I know here in HN people talk down visual programming, but I've done pretty heavy and complicated stuff with it. It would be way more complicated with pandas.