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Actian Ingres vs Panorama Necto comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Actian Ingres
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (26th), Data Warehouse (17th)
Panorama Necto
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (33rd), Reporting (20th), Data Visualization (19th)
 

Featured Reviews

GH
Sr Sales Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Reliable performance enhances operations with good technical support
We run the entire IRS system, the income system, and the tax system. We also manage the entire Absa banking system in Africa. There's a lot of database applications, similar to those used in banks and the IRS The most valuable features for us are reliability and performance. Our system is used…
AS
Programmer Analyst at Tech Services Company
The infographics feature is unique to Necto. However, they need better tutorials and community support.
The best feature I liked is the infographics which is great and it's best unique feature. It helps developers use existing infographics from the library or they can create their own and present to end users It's quite easy to create reports in Necto using the infographics feature. Collaboration…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features for us are reliability and performance."
"Ingres is the only database solution that has maintained a level of consistency and integrity about the way users interact with it."
"The deployment of our solution across a number of servers using Ingres .NET has meant that we can protect the database server behind a highly secure firewall and deploy the front end solutions on a normal web server."
"It has smart computing abilities to deliver some of the complex analytical requirements such as what-if analysis, pinpointing the actual issues and side by side comparison of business factors."
"Users can start context-based discussions, and include context and annotations, which are saved as part of the work board to add more depth and foster knowledge sharing."
"I recommend this for users who want to possess an excellent tool with lots of features and within budget."
"It lets users analyze corporate data and create personalized dashboards."
"It has nice social features which can give context based discussions, search for users and relevant content within the system."
"Interactive and eye-catchy graphs and widgets, real time conditional notifications on related KPIs to the users, exception handling capabilities, and the capability to connect to multiple data source systems make it a nice conglomeration for flexibility to the developer and an end user friendly tool."
"This infographic solution spawns amazing obvious sales reports and you can check many aspects of work of your sales team."
"It is an intuitive and jazzy infographics tool which is easy to use, trained, and deploy and it is very cost effective and generates high ROI for small and mid-sized companies."
 

Cons

"The ability to reset the log file without stopping the DBMS would be helpful for us."
"The seamless integration is a bit of an issue."
"Support for bi directional language is not powerful. (Arabic, Hebrew) BIGDATA is questionable"
"Performance in case of huge datasets needs to be further analyzed."
"Scheduling and publishing is a bit complex task."
"Panorama Necto 14 community support should be improved."
"There are limitations for big data analysis."
"Support for other languages should be provided."
"Provide more data connection (mainly BIG data connection) Provide Linux support. Upload more learning tutorials on site or youtube."
"Multi-language support"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
13%
Construction Company
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
18%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise32
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Actian Ingres?
The seamless integration is a bit of an issue. I would like to see more direct connectors and stuff like SQLAlchemy. It's there but isn't available as a standard, so it involves going to GitHub to ...
What is your primary use case for Actian Ingres?
We run the entire IRS system, the income system, and the tax system. We also manage the entire Absa banking system in Africa. There's a lot of database applications, similar to those used in banks ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Actian Ingres?
Initially, it's a lot less expensive than competitors. Price performance has always been a priority, ensuring we remain competitive in the market.
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Also Known As

Ingres, Ingres 2006
Panorama Necto
 

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Sample Customers

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