Cat[alog Software for InDesign]

Hello,
I hope this is the right place to post this question
I'm looking for a solution to make catalogues for my company. We are planning on using InDesign together with a plugin of some kind that allows for data import from our database and automated layout based on templates/snippets. Currently, we are looking at Cacidi Extreme and EasyCatalog with ODBC-, pagination- and xml-modules. Can anybody give me some pros/cons and comparisons between the two? Why pay more for Cacidi, which features do I get that I'll be missing in EasyCatalog with the above mentioned plugins?
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