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Knowage vs Panorama Necto comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Knowage
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
32nd
Ranking in Reporting
22nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Panorama Necto
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
31st
Ranking in Reporting
20th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (19th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Knowage is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Panorama Necto is 1.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Panorama Necto1.5%
Knowage1.1%
Other97.4%
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

AM
Margin Assurance Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
A stable open source suite for modern business analytics with a useful replication feature
It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products.
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

"Nice features available in SpagoBI compared with other open-source BI are Auditing, Collaborative BI, Query By Example, and User Profiling."
"The most valuable features to us are application implementation, development, and analysis."
"I would use SpagoBI if a company wants to use a free tool that has enough features."
"Our customers really appreciate the self-service BI functionalities."
"It improves sales and products, which motivates employees."
"Being able to schedule necessary jobs needed for production jobs and programming run times"
"Unified interface, a lot of tools for BI, easy configuration, standalone SDK."
"Customer Service: Excellent."
"Some of the features it provides are highly useful for the kind of requirements we have, with highly interactive and eye catchy infographics, powerful exception handling capabilities, excellent collaboration capabilities, and the ability to work with multiple data systems."
"We have been using this tool for self-service data discovery, it is quite easy to use, and I like their customer service as the tech support guys are very responsive."
"This tool is extremely beneficial for self-service data discovery."
"I highly recommend this tool for any business that wishes for quicker and qualitative analysis of their data."
"Necto has multiple features similar to other BI tools but parameters keeping it as emerging leader are: 1.) Collaborative Analysis: groups of people can decide things on the go, it's awesome. 2.) Vibrant Infographics: even single cell attributes can be set for infographics, providing more flexibility to design workboards."
"I have recently started working on this tool, and being a novice to the analytic field, I feel quite comfortable with this tool even during my beginner sessions."
"I was thrilled with the capabilities of astonishingly ready to build and simplified, modern and in-cell infographics that can be used by just right clicking on the attributes."
"Considering all aspects of price or features or comfort working with it, it is the best."
 

Cons

"The dashboard components could be better. They could do a lot more."
"We expected the community to be bigger than what it currently is."
"We had stability issues."
"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."
"I encountered a lot of issues when I tried to integrate the map in order to realize Intelligent Location Dashboards."
"There are additional features such as Data Integration, Data Visualization, MobileBI, Cloud BI, Data enrichment and massaging should be implemented in the next release."
"When it comes to Knowage, it's a bit heavy, it's time-consuming sometimes, it's not very fast, and definitely not as fast as other business intelligence tools in terms of getting graphical reports."
"As all software and especially the open-source ones have always something that can work better, in this case, SpagoBI is slightly difficult to implement."
"Necto should allow support of multiple languages as this has been the major issue we have came across as we have offices in various South American countries."
"Sometimes cloud version hangs, but this could be due to issues in network firewall, so not sure."
"No Outlook or Lotus support. No support for languages other than English."
"The performance with large data volumes needs to be improved."
"I feel scheduling is not that simple."
"Large data-set analysis performance"
"Initially when one starts with the tool there are so many options on the console (it is a bit cluttered), one is a bit confused."
"Administration is an area where it needs improvement as a huge set of scripts are required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It allows the implementation of an effective reporting system using internal skills at a limited upfront cost."
"Knowage is open-source, and an enterprise edition is also available."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
21%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
17%
Outsourcing Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise32
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

SpagoBI
Panorama Necto
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

FIAT Group, Italian air navigation service provider, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Telecom Italia, ASL Genovese, San Giovanni Battista University Hospital
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