Panorama Necto Reviews

- 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

- A very good tool for a small to mid size company for a small to medium scale BI projects

The very first thing that comes in mind about Necto - Panorama Software is its scalability and it is readymade for enterprise deployment, with very minimal efforts.

Excellent in memory performance, return results with clicks, matchless click to collaborate features, just initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight.

Using its Geo Analytics feature, it is easy to find sales/revenue in a particular location, you can locate users on an interactive maps. It location-based infographics is useful and it shows automated relevant insights of all locations. It support all devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile phone). Event on mobile devices it allows you to use the dashboard in the same look and fee, which is great for any executive who travels a lot and and quickly assess the report from hand devices. Empower business users with self-service, governed platform with this, users have the freedom to explore and create their own visualizations. Gives IT more power to govern and manage the platform with ease.

- No Multi language reports

- No information related to certification

- Panorama Necto has less community support.

- The dashboard looks very complicated at first look

- No SQL query support

- Limited support for big data analytics

- No support for Linux or commodity hardware

• It's easy to use and doesn't require a lot of effort.
• It provides great infographics.
• It operates in a self-service environment.
• It's scalable.
• It is fast and easy to deploy.

• Multi-language support
• Availability across other platforms

It's fast and easy to deploy.

It's highly scalable.

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.

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.

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.

• Ease of use and training
• Eye catching info graphics, image bank, numerous chart options and functionality for slicing and dicing
• Excellent social and collaboration capabilities
• Excellent in memory performance, returns results with a few clicks
• Extensive geo analytics tool
• Easy to deploy

It is an intuitive and jazzy infographics tool which is easy to use, trained, and deploy. Also, it is very cost effective and generates high ROI for small and mid-sized companies.

• More user forums and support groups
• Improvement in integration with Big Data
• No support for Linux or commodity hardware

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.