Panorama Necto Reviews

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

I found following features most valuable:

• Built-in social BI capabilities: context sensitive discussions and annotations linked to relevant data
• Contextual & suggestive data and search results
• Best of Data Discovery and Enterprise BI with a unified web-based UI
• Data mash-up in one view: Access Corporate BI & Ad-hoc data sources and model together on the fly using in-memory technology

Based on self-service data discovery and visualization capability of Panorama Necto 14, users from our North American enterprise was able to use interactive infographics to dynamically reflect business changes on the slowly-changing dimensions of the retail market.

Panorama Necto 14 community support should be improved.

I am using this solution from past 1 year.

None

None

None

I would like to rate customer service as 7/10.

Would like to rate technical support as 7/10.

In-house team

Our level of expertise is 8/10.

Panorama got its start in 1993, establishing a close relationship with Microsoft through its sale of its OLAP technology, a relationship the two companies maintain today.

Yes, we evaluated Tableau.

Panorama Necto on the other hand is built to support social collaboration so that its analytics features can be shared to improve decision making by incorporating various organizational inputs. Additionally, it supports an infographic display for information review which is unlike most of its competitors.

- Collaboration features which allows users to communicate and share with each other.

- In-cell info graphics

Previously, we were using Excel for analysis and reporting and we evaluated a few BI tools to migrate our reporting platform to the web. Fortunately, we came across this BI tool and evaluated the trial version for our business users. They found it very interesting and easy to use. They have started working with Panorama Necto and are extremely happy with the product.

Although it perfectly matches our requirements, it would be great to if a future version allows the user to connect to BIG data sources like R.

More than 3 months.

Not Yet

Not Yet

Not Yet

We haven't taken any customer support yet but the resources available on internet are really helpful for learning.

We have't taken yet

We use several BI solutions and recently evaluated Panorama Necto.

Initial setup was quite easy and straightforward. We haven't found any issue.

We have evaluated the trial version only.

I would definitely recommend this product to others as it provides ease-of-use and good reports.

- It lets users analyze corporate data and create personalized dashboards.

- Very intuitive and interactive analytics.

- Highly visual and understandable infographic format.

- 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.

It's quite easy to create reports in Necto using the infographics feature. Collaboration helps to share ideas with others, which helps to make decisions faster.

Good community support for users and tutorials for beginners.

Trail/ Few months

No

No

No

Excellent

Good

We switched becayse of the great capabilities of this tool.

It is straightforward and easy to use and to navigate.

Still Implementing.

Right pricing of the product listed. Reasonable & economical as compared to others available in market.

We use several BI solutions and recently evaluated Panorama Necto.

I would definitely recommend this product to others as it provided ease of use and good reports.

Panorama Necto provides governed and guided data discovery platform.

The auto-generated dashboards feature is a very good starting point for data discovery.

Simple and vibrant infographic can be customized to a cell level.

It has handy collaborating feature to initiate discussions with relevant users.

Good performance.

Not yet as we are trying to evaluate multiple options, but Necto has potential.

Need improve on handling big data.

User interface also needs to more professional .

Not yet.

No issues.

Is slow with big data.

So far so good.

Good

I have used Tableau and evaluated other options too.

Straightforward

I setup in-house.

No ROI yet. Still evaluating.

OLAP analysis with Microsoft SQL Server is a valuable feature for me.

• It connects to any data source.
• OLAP Cubes can be managed automatically.
• Analyzes and reports against business data to gain insight into your business performance.
• Proactively identifies business trends and challenges, and determines KPIs to compare actual performance against determined goals.

Linux-Unix support

6-12 Months

No

No

Not the feature this product offers.

8-Good service.

7-Knew the technical information.

Previously Microsoft in-house tools like SSAS, SSIS & SSRS.

It was moderately complex.

In-house IT Infrastructure team.

Yet to calculate this.

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. It provides more flexibility to design workboards.

Currently we're in the evaluation phase, but it will provide more power to business end users to create reports on their own.

- Large data-set analysis performance

- Technical documentation

No issues with deployment, it was pretty straight forward.

No, it has been working fine during the evaluation.

No, it has been working fine with the set of data sources we used during the evaluation.

The vendor team has also been involved to resolve any issues, in a timely manner if required.

We are still in the evaluation phase and also looking for other dashboard reporting tools for business end users with strong graphic functionality.

It is an awesome tool. It has really cool features such as being able to find relevant people when commenting on a data element. This helps in searching for the right people to solve any problems with your work, add any relevant people onto the discussion board, and start a discussion with them. This enables you to find more people for addressing issues, which in turn means you can get quick resolutions for problems. It stores the discussion histories from its users, similar to how Skype stores its chat history. This enables Necto to collect all answers in one place.

Other features I like are -

1. Recommendation engine
2. Mobile rich info-graphics
3. Good collaborative capability with discussion/likes/dislikes and other interactive features ensure effective data analysis
4. Capability to connect to multiple sources
5. Very user interactive

It is a more end-user centric tool, and there is more capacity for self-service. This has provided us with reductions in both cost, and amount of maintenance needed.

Blogs or videos related to the use of the tool would be more helpful in understanding how to use it. Also, I would like to get certification for this tool but I cannot find any info anywhere.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

They don't provide customer support on-site, but the rest is fine.

It's great.

We were using an old generation BI report tool and we wanted to switch to a new generation BI tool.

It was straightforward.

We implemented it in-house.

We have evaluated others as well.

(1) A fully web based BI tool

(2) 95% covers the requirements of Self Service BI & Ad hoc Reporting

(3) Better Visualization Components

(4) Easy UI

(5) Easy Data Acquisition

We have large amounts of raw data in different formats. Panorama Necto's easy UI helps us to work with the data. There are many options to visualize our raw data in different graphical formats.

(1) Missing Support Services

(2) Multiple Language Support

(3) Needs to have more tutorials and training sessions