Panorama Necto Reviews

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.

Provides a centrally-hosted collaborative platform to share your work to a wider audience but only of your choice. The role based access is really amazing

I used Necto to publish some of the testing result reporting and it was great in terms of creating dashboards and sharing.

It should have quick connection and efficient data management for big data platforms such as Hadoop.

We like the collaborative and supportive business intelligence feature most in this product. Because of the collaborative environment, business users from different departments can communicate & share feedback with each other in a fraction of time. Supportive business intelligence also helps new users to drive through the product and make themselves familiar with it.

Before implementing Panorama Necto, there was a lot of manual work to do which requires lots of man powers and resources. Due to Panorama Necto, everything becomes centralized now, so anyone can easily access their reports from a central repository. It helps us to improve productivity and reduce cost.

• Provide more data connection (mainly BIG data connection)
• Provide Linux support.
• Upload more learning tutorials on site or youtube.

This is the next generation BI tool, which will be very helpful to small and medium businesses to kick start data exploration and visualization on their diverse databases, with lesser intervention of IT. Yes, this tool is more of end-user centric, gives way more power to end users to perform the data analysis.

Eye-catching infographics, image banks, numerous chart options and functionality for slicing and dicing, amazing recommendation engine which can give more insights to users. Matchless click-to-collaborate features, initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight. 

Panorama helped one of my clients to replace a costly BI tool and bring down the licensing cost and made the tool available to more users globally.

We were able to build a collaborative business intelligence solution, we replaced clients existing process of predictive analysis and forecasting, and provided solutions based on Necto with a lot ease.

The happiest group was surprisingly the business users who readily adapted this new technology after a couple of training sessions. They never had so much of freedom for data analysis.

The thing which I was expecting and is not available as of now was a personal edition for installation on Windows home edition that can come handy when practicing and training other users; I hope they plan to provide that to us soon.

Second thing is the limited support for big data analytics, this again is not very critical at the moment but it is a good to have functionality, and soon once the user are familiar with the basic analysis they will start looking for option like big data analytics, etc.

• Connects to any data (most backend packages as per industry standards).
• Understands the nature of data and the metadata really well. Treats the data on the fly and creates smart visualizations.
• Creates basic data arrangements easily without waiting for the users to instruct. For an example, given a date field it creates a calendar hierarchy by default.
• Comes with lots of option to modify and build the smart infographic. Uses innovative pictures and charts to create the dashboards.
• Provides a centrally hosted collaborative platform to share your work to a wider audience but only of your choice. The role-based access is really amazing.
• 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.
• Helps you identify why you are succeeding and where you should shift your focus to.
• The maps are amazing and they just don’t act as control points rather you can populate various measures on them making it really efficient to understand the business in geographical info graph.

Necto has everything that a smart BI tool needs and below are some of its features which stands apart from legacy reporting tools. It builds a trust with clients through its data security features and served really well in convincing some of our partners to start a decision process to venture into this.

I did not find any areas of improvement based on what analysis I have done. It would be great to see how it evolves with improvements in the future though.

We have been using this tool for self-service data discovery.

The tool is quite easy to use and we got on-premise training from Panorama.

I like their customer service and the tech support guys are very responsive.

I saw lot of people complaining about lack of community forum, but they do have a forum that is quite active.

The things like I most it supports variety of charts, I was quite bored with my previous BI tool which mostly support bar, line, and pie chart. I can now create more meaningful charts radar, doughnut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc.

Mostly empowered business users with data handling capabilities and helped to lower capex cost.

I think publishing and scheduling can be a bit simplified.

No personal edition for installation on Windows home edition.

More than a year

I don't know.

Sometimes cloud version hangs, but this could be due to issues in network firewall, so not sure. The root cause is still unknown.

Very good.

Very good.

Yes, we were using a leading BI tool, but Necto came for less than half of the cost with more features.

Installation was very smooth as we had on-premise support.

In-house with help from Panorama support guys.

Almost reduced BI tool licensing cost by half, but this comes with cost of new tool learning curve.

Yes, they can try this.

We did couple of options like Sisense, Pyramid, etc.

• Infographics are totally cool.
• Visualization of data in a more attractive way to users.

• Fast and easy deployment
• Easy to build dashboards

We are building or visualizing data for basic accounts specific to certain regions or countries. 

We use the filtering function to restrict inactive data and to create partner account hierarchies.

Support and functionality for Mac OS X.

We're in a POC period and testing its functionality against Lumira.

Lumira and BI 4.1, to test the scalability and features provided by this tool.

Collaboration and infographics are the most valuable features of this product.  

We built up a data warehouse from our organizational data. For analysis purposes, we created different OLAP cubes, like an employee cube for our HR department. Previously, we were using Excel to browse the cubes, but we often got requests from various department to use a modern business intelligence tool. So we evaluated a number of business intelligence tools and found Panorama Necto the most promising of them all. 

We can easily connect our OLAP cube without installing any drivers and can browse the cube with slice-and-dice capability. Due to its collaboration features, communication happens within/across the department smoothly and effectively. Users are quite happy with this tool. 

- Support for other languages should be provided.

- Should provide BIG data connection.

- Should work in Linux environment.

More than 6 months  

No, we haven't found any yet.

No

No

We are still evaluating the product.

Initial setup was quite easy and straightforward.

We are still evaluating the product.

No

No, we are good.

Interactive and eye-catchy graphs and widgets.

Real time conditional notifications on related KPI's to the users.

95% Covering the requirement of Self Service BI & Ad hoc Reporting

Better Visualization Components

Exception handling capabilities and capability to connect to multiple data source systems.

In all a nice conglomeration for flexibility to the developer and end user friendly tool

A fully web-based BI tool

Easy UI

Easy Data Acquisition

Easy sending notifications in case of data issues

Built-in social BI capabilities: context sensitive discussions and annotations linked to relevant data

Contextual & suggestive data and search results

Data mash-up in one view: Access Corporate BI & Ad-hoc data sources and model together on the fly using in-memory technology

Many applications works together in a self-service mode.

You can add more user in a group for a discussions like a social media.

The interactive infographics dynamically reflect business changes.

Users can create their own infographics to visualize trends in the data.

Starting discussions, subscribing to users, searching all features are easy.

Its performance and social capabilities is very good.

PROS:

Infographics

Multiple database connections,

Security

Reporting without need of technical expertise

CONS:

Needs improvement for big data analysis

Needs more support for predictive and forecast analysis.

Reporting customization features are limited to some extent, which might be a problem for advanced users.

Infographics and analytics

Web based reporting

Infographics

Email in case of issues

6 months

nope

Bit Slow

Nope

Good, can be better

Very good

Costing

Simple

In-house

Cheap, might need some more improvement in Big data

Qliksense, Tableau