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Sales manager at a construction company
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I can quickly create sales report from different teams and send it to different departments, even from my tablet.

What is most valuable?

Our company migrated to Panorama Necto from another tool. This solution is very easy to use and offers a huge variety of features. It helps us reach our customers and our vendors, supports different graphics templates and implements interactive analytics tools. Also it has very effective tools to connect with your colleagues which is one of the best I have ever seen.

This infographic solution spawns amazing obvious sales reports and you can check many aspects of work of your sales team. Another positive points are the cloud service and capability to connect many sources in one task, so I can quickly create sales report from different teams and send it to different departments, even from my tablet.

And last but not at least, the Panorama team created very informative online help and video tutorials, so you can realize features of the product very fast.

How has it helped my organization?

With Necto we have significantly reduced TCO of our CRM and have improved our communications. Also we can provide data mining and sales analysis in different forms to different departments with a quick reflection of the changes.

What needs improvement?

Panorama doesn't have big community support and many issues we refer to the technicians. This isn`t great, especially with the lack of time. Also they do not support a Linux version and we have some problems with this.

For how long have I used the solution?

A little less than a year.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Yes, with Linux.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and support?

Customer Service:

8/10

Technical Support:

7/10

What was our ROI?

3-5 years

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

Panorama has very comfortable price terms.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend Necto to companies that need an effective and inexpensive sales\data analysis solution.

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Senior Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
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.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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BI Team Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
It supports geo analytics, integrates with maps, and plots charts, but it has limited support for big data.

Valuable Features:

Amazing business intelligence tool with rich info graphics, it is one of the excellent self service BI tools with impeccable collaboration features.

We are currently using this tool for cross-country sales reporting and, we must admit, this is an amazing tool for self-service data discovery.

Matchless click to collaborate features, initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight. Amazing geo analytics support, readily integrate with maps and plots the charts nicely.

Improvements to My Organization:

It provides self service BI platform for data discovery, automation, collaborative business intelligence, Panorama helped us to replace costly BI tools and bring down the licensing cost and made tool available to more users.

Room for Improvement:

Limited support for big data analytics, limited awareness and distant learning like online courses. Worst part is no personal edition for installation on Windows home edition, and I hope they will be coming up soon with a personal version.

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Product Owner / Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
The auto-generated dashboards feature is a very good starting point for data discovery, but it needs improvement to its handling of big data.

What is most valuable?

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.

How has it helped my organization?

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

What needs improvement?

Need improve on handling big data.

User interface also needs to more professional .

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Not yet.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Is slow with big data.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

So far so good.

Technical Support:

Good

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

I have used Tableau and evaluated other options too.

How was the initial setup?

Straightforward

What about the implementation team?

I setup in-house.

What was our ROI?

No ROI yet. Still evaluating.

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Assistant Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
A good application for basic analysts but more advanced features need to be released by the vendor for power users.

Valuable Features:

I have been evaluating tools within our organization to be suggested to different clients which are less technical and more business user oriented for fast first hand analytics and I came across Necto.

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. Another feature that I think stood out in this tool is of it being suggestive which leads to automated analysis and recommendations. I also observed that it uses crowdsourcing to recommend workboards. This tool also has a feature of it being collaborative in decision making experience wherein one can directly connect with the associates within the enterprise from within the tool.

Improvements to My Organization:

Quick reporting without need of technical expertise

Quick connection to multiple data sources and data integration

Quick answers

Quick collaboration

Room for Improvement:

Performance in case of huge datasets needs to be further analyzed.

A good application for basic analysts but more advanced features need to be released by the vendor for power users in coming versions.

Cost of implementing multiple analytical tools for different sect of users should be considered.

Technical documentation needs to evolve with time.

Use of Solution:

Over one year

Deployment Issues:

None

Stability Issues:

None

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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IT Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
It's end-user centric but could run faster.

What is most valuable?

The infographics are customizable and the tool is end-user centric. It has a commendable recommendation engine.

How has it helped my organization?

Will allow us to migrate towards end-user centric tools from our current developer-centric tools.

What needs improvement?

Administration is an area where it needs improvement as a huge set of scripts are required.

For how long have I used the solution?

2 weeks

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is slow.

How are customer service and technical support?

It's fine.

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

We are currently assessing BI tools available in the market for a customer of ours. We want to migrate from the existing one.

How was the initial setup?

Straightforward

What about the implementation team?

In-house

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We're still evaluating others as well.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Senior Business Intelligence/Reporting Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
Great infographics. Needs more support for predictive and forecast analysis, ETL and data transformation, and more languages.

What is most valuable?

Necto is the first BI tool with infographics which is a great and unique feature. For me, they are a new, better version of well-known KPIs. Users can create their own infographics or choose the existing ones from the library.

Collaboration and social capabilities including sharing content, starting discussions, subscribing to users, searching for the relevant content and many other similar feature is something me and my colleagues were thrilled by.

Support for mobile devices is very good and offers the same experience on all platforms.

How has it helped my organization?

It has helped improve the communication between the developers and business users. It's easy to leave notes related to charts and figures and to ask questions.

What needs improvement?

Needs more ETL and data transformation support.

Needs more support for predictive and forecast analysis.

Support more languages.

For how long have I used the solution?

6 months

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No, we didn't have any problems.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Very good, they were able to answer all our questions.

Technical Support:

Very good, they were able to answer all our questions.

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

We are still evaluating several of the solutions present on the market and looking for the best front-end tools for our business users and Necto has caught our attention because of some great innovative features. We still didn't start using it production, it's still in the evaluation stage, but it is looking very good so far and we are considering switching to it.

How was the initial setup?

Pretty straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

It was an in-house implementation.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We are still evaluating. Some of the options are Tableau, QlikView, PowerBI...

What other advice do I have?

I advise everyone to give this tool a chance an evaluate it. Some of the features offered are unique, my favorites are infographics and the support for collaboration between the users.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Software Test Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
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.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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