The best feature I liked is the infographics which is great and it's best unique feature. It helps developers use existing infographics from the library or they can create their own and present to end users.
Programmer Analyst at Tech Services Company
The infographics feature is unique to Necto. However, they need better tutorials and community support.
What is most valuable?
How has it helped my organization?
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.
What needs improvement?
Good community support for users and tutorials for beginners.
For how long have I used the solution?
Several months
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Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We use several BI solutions and recently evaluated Panorama Necto.
What other advice do I have?
I would definitely recommend this product to others as it provided ease of use and good reports.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Lead Technical with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product tutorials need to be improved. Overall it's a promising tool.
What is most valuable?
We are pleasantly surprised with the collaboration and visualization features of Panorama Necto. Relatively a less know tool, but I think it is very promising and there is lot potential and values in this product.
The product is very easy to use, very ideal for rolling out a self-service data discovery and visualization solution for data scientist and business users.
It has excellent social and collaboration capabilities.
Matchless click to collaborate features, initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight.
Eye catching infographics, image bank, numerous chart options and functionality for slicing and dicing.
How has it helped my organization?
Not yet, but its social and visualization capabilities will certainly exciting.
What needs improvement?
Training, tutorial and awareness.
For how long have I used the solution?
Less than 6 months, we have been evaluating Panorama Necto to assess if there is a better alternative of our existing tool sets which offer more social capabilities and collaboration for data analysis and discovery.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
No, We used an online cloud.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Not yet
How are customer service and technical support?
Customer Service:
Very good, customer service is prompt.
Technical Support:Very good
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Not yet, but we are seeing lot of value.
What about the implementation team?
In house implementation
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Sr Software Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It provides us with great infographics in a self-service environment, but it needs multi-language support.
Valuable Features:
- 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.
Room for Improvement:
- Multi-language support
- Availability across other platforms
Deployment Issues:
It's fast and easy to deploy.
Scalability Issues:
It's highly scalable.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Provides seamless collaboration and excellent infographics. Altough, the user console is a bit complicated.
What is most valuable?
Excellent infographics
Very interactive
Seamless collaboration
Impressive performance
How has it helped my organization?
Operational reports on automotive parts inventory, supply and quality metrics.
What needs improvement?
The user console is bit complicated when beginning to work with it.
For how long have I used the solution?
More than 6 months
How are customer service and technical support?
Customer Service:
Very supportive
Technical Support:Very good
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
No previous solutions were used.
What about the implementation team?
In house
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Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
You can generate well-illustrated, data-intensive reports using its infographic feature.
Valuable Features:
I like its infographic feature and social ribbon the most. On one side, you can generate well-illustrated, data-intensive reports using its infographic feature, and on other side, you can get all stakeholders on board to address any concern/issue with specific report.
By using the reminder mechanism, you can bind people to act and respond on any highlighted issue on time and with authority.
Improvements to My Organization:
I have recently started working on this tool. Being a novice to the analytic field, I feel quite comfortable with this tool even during my beginner sessions. I'd say that this tool requires less training to start off with as compared to other similar tools available in market.
Room for Improvement:
- No Outlook or Lotus support.
- No support for languages other than English.
Deployment Issues:
I had no issues with deployment.
Stability Issues:
It's a stable solution.
Scalability Issues:
It's scaled for us.
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BI Analyst with 10,001+ employees
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.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Datawarehouse and BI Architect at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
It's intuitive and good for interactive analytics with excellent in-memory performance, although I'd appreciate a personal edition for installation on Windows Home Edition.
Valuable Features:
I used this tool 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, and with a simple click you can import data from multiple sources to build visualizations. It's very intuitive and very good for interactive analytics.
Also, Panorama Necto has excellent in-memory performance.
Improvements to My Organization:
This BI tool helps to limit the dependency on IT for data discovery in the company. It's very much a self-service BI tool.
Room for Improvement:
It is only able to be installed on Windows, and they should offer a Linux-based version as well. Also, the big data technology support is also very limited.
I would also appreciate it if there would be a personal edition that I can install on Windows Home Edition for my client to assess the product. The free edition is the only one that allows the client to connect to a Necto server in the cloud, It is not possible to install the full Necto solution (client and server) in the Home Edition of Windows.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Team Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Easy to use with 3rd party integration. I'm unsure about big data.
What is most valuable?
- The users can take a deep dive into their business processes with the rich infographics suite. Necto has more than 2,000 infographics in its library.
- The exception handling capabilities of Necto is powerful one which includes bubble up exception, automated insights, root cause analysis and they are just a couple of clicks away...
- Another prominent feature of Necto is its real time collaborative decision making. A group of decision makers can collaborate with each other and compile a meaningful real time analysis.
What needs improvement?
- Support for bi directional language is not powerful. (Arabic, Hebrew)
- BIGDATA is questionable
For how long have I used the solution?
1 year
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
Deployment is smooth and installation is very easy.
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:
I have not used Customer Service.
Technical Support:I have not used Technical Support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I used OBIEE previously. The reason for switching to Necto is its easy to use with 3rd party integration and has a rich Infographics service. Also, Necto is very strong in collaborative reporting.
How was the initial setup?
Initial setup is very straightforward and easy to implement.
What about the implementation team?
It was an in-house implementation.
What was our ROI?
ROI is excellent. e.g. Dashboard sharing, Scheduling of reports. Predictive analytics. These are some of the most striking returns we got in our datawarehouse.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Tableau
JasperSoft
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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