Panorama Necto Reviews

• 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.

• Good social and collaboration capabilities.
• Fair amount of documentation available considering a relatively new tool
• A very good self service BI tool
• Allows connecting multiple data sources

• Has improved the performance of the data analyst team
• Allows us to create dashboards quickly without much dependency on technical people

• The performance with large data volumes need to be improved
• Allow us to integrate xls data files on an existing dashboard

Less than a year

Didn't have many issues, however some performance issues need to be sorted before deploying to the wider community.

No, it's been pretty stable so far.

Very good

Very good

Yes, we are evaluating this tool against other BI tools available in the market like Qlik and BO.

• 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

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.

• 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.

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.

The collaboration capability of Necto BI is amazing. The infographics are very attractive. It's a smart self service BI application.

Very powerful tool which supports almost all data sources automatically. The ability to automatically build workboards is highly personalizable with just a few clicks. It can present any business data based on hierarchy in a very smart way (no matter how small or large your organization is). Their predefined workboard layouts suites your business language for better visualization. Regarding usability- the dashboards are all device friendly. Hence, I can use it anywhere.

There is need for improvement with report sharing and documentation. 

1 Week

It needs some enrichment in the knowledge base community. When using other BI applications you can find answers on forums without submitting a support ticket to the customer support team.