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Business Intelligence Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
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It provides management with a clear, concise, one source of truth and progress of business in one snapshot, but it should allow support for multiple languages as we have South American offices.

What is most valuable?

We are a small IT company that was looking for a BI tool in order to eliminate the usage of Excel as the reporting tool in our organization. For a company having business users and decision makers in different time zones and different offices, Necto provided a great solution. 

The Social collaboration built in Necto helped with interactions among business users while viewing a single work board. The work boards are collaborative, dynamic and suggestive. The recommendation engine is the most interesting piece as it suggests relevant work boards based on a user's usage.

The work boards are a great way to provide the management a clear, concise, one source of truth and progress of business in one snapshot. The drill down capabilities allow the business users to analyze and gain insights. It lets business users spend more time on analyzing data rather than collecting and creating reports.

The feature to find people and chat with the concerned user right from the report window adds a great value and reduces the pain of emails going back and forth among users.

Cause and effect is a nice feature to have in order to do a first level of analysis. The ability to find exceptions and provide various insights is a great feature to have.

Getting the business users trained and getting on board was easy as the interface is intuitive and easy to learn and manage.

What needs improvement?

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.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues with deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues with stability.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues scaling.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Senior Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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We've been able to off-load the task of reports/charts/dashboards demanded by our business managers, but there is very limited documentation available for it.

Valuable Features

The most valuable feature I found with this tool is that it advises current trends of workboards after analyzing your data. It gives us tons of defined workboards/ charts to play around with.

Improvements to My Organization

I am part of an IT team that maintains a full-fledged data warehouse and supports our business users, particularly business managers. Previously we used to provide them reports/charts/dashboards that they demanded.

But with this tool, we have succeeded to off-load this job from our shoulders. The easy-to-use user interface empowered the business managers to visualize the data on their own.

Room for Improvement

  • There is very limited documentation available for this tool.
  • No support for languages other than English.

Use of Solution

3 months

Deployment Issues

No

Stability Issues

No

Scalability Issues

No

Customer Service and Technical Support

Customer Service:

7

Technical Support:

7

Pricing, Setup Cost and Licensing

Definitely a cost effective option as it comes at half that price of other leading products in the BI domain.

Other Advice

I would strongly recommend this tool to those who possess data but do not know how to proceed with it, i.e. what type of charts/dashboards they should generate to visualize data more effectively.

You just give your data to this tool, and then it will give you concise views of the insights that you and other stakeholders are interested in.

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Database Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
The tool can automate the process of analyzing information and provides a self-service data discovery that automates much of the data analysis process, but there are limitations for big data analysis.

Valuable Features:

It is an easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce interactive dashboards in ways that make sense to the enterprise. 

Panorama Necto is a collaborative business intelligence tool. The most valuable and relevant data is shared within the organization to improve decision-making across the board. 

The tool can automate the process of analyzing information and provides a self-service data discovery that automates much of the data analysis process.

Improvements to My Organization:

Panorama Necto helped us to develop beautiful and high-quality info graphics reports for top management. This Business Intelligence tool helps us find the right information source to fuel critical insight.

Room for Improvement:

There are limitations for big data analysis. The team is trying to find ways to collect and analyze how marketing activity affects consumer decisions. Also, the dashboards looks a little bit complicated at first look.

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With a click, you can import data from multiple sources and build visualizations, although it doesn't support a Linux environment.

Valuable Features:

1. Auto-generated dashboards feature

2. Easy to used and highly customized info-graphics options.

3. Tool is user-friendly.

4. Error notification feature is useful.

5. Handy collaborating feature to initiate discussions with relevant users.

Improvements to My Organization:

I highly recommend this tool for any business that wishes for quicker and qualitative analysis of their data. I used Panorama Necto for a regional sales dashboard and I confirm that it is one of the best data discovery BI tools I have ever used. What I extremely appreciate is that the tool is easy to use -- with a simple click, you can import data from multiple sources and build visualizations.

This tool is hosted over the web and you can connect to any industry-standard back-end packages that we know.

Room for Improvement:

1. Limited support for big data analytics.

2. No support for a Linux environment.

Deployment Issues:

We had no issues with deployment.

Stability Issues:

It's been stable.

Scalability Issues:

No issues here.

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BI Analyst with 10,001+ employees
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It's allowed us to collaborate on self-service BI data, but they should improve community support.

Valuable Features:

It is impressive how easy it is to use this tool. A good example is when you want to share your dashboard with someone, you just find the person and give the permission.

This tool exceeded my expectations! I have never seen before a reporting/Business Intelligence tool with so many innovative resources, like interactions with other person, share reports, save notifications, send e-mails.... It has all of these functions that are easy to use and you don't need to get out of it.

Improvements to My Organization:

It's allowed us to collaborate on self-service BI data.

Room for Improvement:

Improve the community support. Solving this, they also solve the problem with too many gadgets in the dashboard. They have too many options in the graphs and when I asked the support to help me with that, they did not respond. I did not find any forums to help me with the options. I also encountered some duplicated videos on the website after that. 

Use of Solution:

I used a week to test and compared it with other reporting tools.

Deployment Issues:

No issues with deployment.

Stability Issues:

It's been stable.

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Software Test Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Displaying the data on dashboard from Excel is made simple by just 2 clicks, but online tutorials are not available.

What is most valuable?

Data discovery and transferring the data from Excel to dashboard with just 2 clicks are astonishing. Notification for KPIs is also very good. The self-service feature is cool in creating customized charts and reports.

How has it helped my organization?

Displaying the data on dashboard from Excel is a hectic task which involves lots of operations to be performed. This is made simple by just 2 clicks. It analyzes the data, converts them, and puts them on the dashboard.

What needs improvement?

Online tutorials on this are not available. This should be done or documentation can be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for two years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

no

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

no

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

4.5/5

Technical Support:

4.5/5

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We switched because of its cool feature in moving the data from Excel to dashboard with ease.

How was the initial setup?

Yes, the initial setup is very simple and straightforward.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Panorama Necto is made available to the users at a very affordable price compared to that of other BI tools.

What other advice do I have?

Very good tool for the ones who are looking for ease of use and rich data visualization.

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Associate Finance Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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It's become quite simple in presenting data on the dashboard, but I feel scheduling is not that simple.

What is most valuable?

  • I like implementing it to send reports through email.
  • The data discovery feature is very good and appealing. It is very easy to use. The generation of dashboards from various sources is excellent.

How has it helped my organization?

We access data from various sources. Collecting them, modifying them, and loading them altogether seems to be challenge. Now, it's become quite simple in presenting data on the dashboard. Categories of graphs make it more presentable.

What needs improvement?

I feel scheduling is not that simple. Also, publishing takes considerable effort.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for two years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

no

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

no

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

no

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

4/5

Technical Support:

4/5

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

The previous tool we used doesn't support the kind of graphs that we require.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is very straight forward and the documentation made it easy to work on.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We can get this licensed product at a very reasonable price that no BI tool will be available for.

What other advice do I have?

If your data sources are many and ETL consumes a lot of your time, go for Panorama Necto. With its automation, your work becomes simple.

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We never faced a performance-based issue with databases once we started working with it, but it would be very effective if interfaces and dashboards support large volumes of data.

What is most valuable?

The Exception Handling feature that identifies the errors and highlights them to the user is a unique feature that cannot be found in any of the BI tools other than Panorama Necto. 

The collaboration, automation, graphs, performance make it the best of its kind.

How has it helped my organization?

Performance would be an issue when dealing with databases. We never faced a performance-based issue once we started working with Panorama Necto. 

The reports made out of its rich infographics were impressive.

Installation and set up is very easy. There is a customer care team who are very precise at dealing with things that would help us out if needed.

What needs improvement?

It becomes a big deal if the data to be handled is very large. It would be very effective if the interfaces and dashboards support large volumes of data. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for one year.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

no

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

no

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

no

How are customer service and technical support?

5/5

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

4.5/5

How was the initial setup?

Yes, it is quite straightforward. Even though there are some issues, there is a team who guides us.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I feel it the best BI tool you could ever get for the price offered. Don't miss a chance. Just go and grab it.

What other advice do I have?

Considering all aspects of price or features or comfort working with it, it is the best. Take a chance and try it. It's worth it.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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