Likelihood to Recommend The product is especially useful when you have real-time and/or time series data to analyze. If you have more mundane, simpler requirements, other products might do the job you need for less money (there are even some decent open source visualization tools you can find.) I know the product is very widely used in capital markets applications to monitor and analyze risk and price and volume changes; if you're working in that area, I don't think there's a better tool to use.
Read full review The best aspect of Incorta is the ability to retain fidelity to raw data sources. Incorta does not require an ETL process or pre-aggregation to get results. Another great feature is the Business Schema. The ability to present data in localized business language is key to citizen development. The solution is a complete platform from ingestion to presentation. There is no need for additional products to provide high-performing dashboards. It is worth repeating that no ETL is required. If you need high-speed ingestion and presentation of millions of rows of data while retaining access to the raw data, Incorta is the right platform.
Marc Paige Assistant Vice President IT Software Development and Chief Application Architect
Read full review Pros Creating a basic model to extract data from a report is very easy. Advanced features like Calculated Fields and External Lookups allow you to augment the raw data. You can create a "project" to automate the data extraction. Combined with Datapump (a separate DW app), you can fully automate the process once the raw report is generated. Read full review Speed - ingestion and delivery of data Customization Support Training Marc Paige Assistant Vice President IT Software Development and Chief Application Architect
Read full review Cons Recently, we had some major sticker-shock when we wanted to upgrade Data Pump. It is an exceptional product, but when the price jumped from $6,000 to over $60,000, it was impossible to get the funds approved internally for the upgrade. We also paid for yearly maintenance contracts which included Professional Services, but rarely found those services beneficial. However, we did receive all software upgrades for Datapump as part of the contract which we found to be very beneficial. However, with the new pricing, that is not longer the case. Read full review Broader use of formula columns in insights Formula enhancements to all commenting Greater formatting of Insights Marc Paige Assistant Vice President IT Software Development and Chief Application Architect
Read full review Likelihood to Renew Even though we do not utilize it on a daily basis, I do hope my current company renews it's license. If not, I intend to purchase myself.
Read full review Usability There are improvements to the formula area that would make this rating go higher. Formatting is also in need of enhancement.
Marc Paige Assistant Vice President IT Software Development and Chief Application Architect
Read full review Support Rating I have interacted with support on many occasions. They are professional and knowledgeable and have solved every issue and asked every question or directed me to the appropriate resource who can.
Marc Paige Assistant Vice President IT Software Development and Chief Application Architect
Read full review Alternatives Considered Datawatch is very good value of money compared to QlikView; QlikView is really more of a BI tool and has a lot of functions that I didn't need. Datawatch is very strong in the real-time area where Tableau, Panorama, and Qlik don't do very well. If you need to set up a visual monitoring dashboard, Datawatch is the best product I've seen for that. if you want to do a lot of in depth statistical analysis of large databases, Tableau is probably a good option.
Read full review Each of the other solutions required an ETL to prepare data for ingestion and presentation. Our requirements were for no ELT. Attempting to use raw data sources with both of the other solutions did not provide the performance required (or in the case of
Tableau , never finished.) Incorta provides the capability to utilize citizen developers. The other solutions required technical skills beyond the average citizen developer.
Marc Paige Assistant Vice President IT Software Development and Chief Application Architect
Read full review Return on Investment Data Pump reduces complexity of report solutions by offering a standardized approach for organizing and scheduling 97% service level for past 5 years for all of our jobs going through Data Pump Read full review Visibility to daily operations and pacing Visibility on daily ACH return facilitating action per client Client reporting accepted very well Marc Paige Assistant Vice President IT Software Development and Chief Application Architect
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